100 Mind-Blowing Write Facts

To properly write adjectives in order, you would list them by amount, value, size, temperature, age, shape, colour, origin, and material.

The most difficult Chinese character requires 62 total strokes to write. The word itself, “biang” holds no meaning.

Mark Twain was the first author to use a typewriter to write a manuscript.

The CIA headquarters has its own Starbucks, but baristas don’t write names on the cups. Its receipts say “Store Number 1” instead of “Starbucks,” and its workers need an escort to leave their work posts.

“Pants” used to be a dirty word. Shortened from pantaloons, “pants” was considered vulgar by some language commentators. In Ambrose Bierce’s 1909 book Write It Right, he wrote the following on using the term “pants” for trousers: “Abbreviated from pantaloons, which are no longer worn. Vulgar exceedingly.”

Someone will write and recite a poem at your funeral if you die in the Netherlands. This is mostly the case for those who die without a next of kin. This practice is done so that there will be at least one person at their funeral.

Thousands of people write to God yearly. Every year, Jerusalem receives an influx of letters from thousands of people addressed to “God.” It happens so regularly that there is even a “Letters to God” department of the Israeli postal service.

It took Leo Tolstoy six years to write “War & Peace”.

Frederick Douglass taught himself to read and write.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

The last man to walk on the moon, Gene Cernan, promised his daughter he’d write her initials on the moon. He did, and her initials, “TDC,” will probably be on the moon for tens of thousands of years.

J. R. R. Tolkien invented the languages of Middle Earth before he even thought of writing stories in the fictional universe. Tolkien was without a doubt a natural polyglot, learning more than 35 languages throughout his life. When he was a teenager, he invented his first language, which would inspire the 20 or so languages he ultimately created for Middle Earth. Once he began inventing the languages, he realized that he needed people to speak them, and it was only from this point that he thought to write The Lord of the Rings and his other works.

The word graffiti originates from both Greek and Italian – the Greek word “graphein” which means “to write,” and the Italian word “graffito,” which means “a scratch.”

A handful of world-renowned scientists were born in England: Another intriguing fact about England is that it’s been the birthplace of several iconic scientists! Sir Isaac Newton, a household name, was born in Lincolnshire in 1643 and went on to write the laws of motion, gravity and the theory of colour. More recently, Stephen Hawking was born in 1942 in Cambridgeshire. The professor is best known for his theory of exploding black holes which has revolutionised the field of astronomy. These English scientists’ findings are still very relevant for science to this day, with their works being used frequently in education and the industry.

In June 2020, GPT-3 was released, trained with over 175 billion parameters, the first generative artificial intelligence with the ability to comprehend and write human-like texts.

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