55.1% of all US prisoners are in prison for drug offenses.
111, 111, 111 X 111, 111, 111 = 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321
1 and 2 are the only numbers where they are values of the numbers of the factors they have.
"Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."
"THEREIN" is a seven-letter word that contains thirteen words spelled using consecutive letters: the, he, her, er, here, I, there, ere, rein, re, in, therein, and herein.
"The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in English.
"Taxi" is spelled exactly the same in English, French, German, Swedish, Portuguese, and Dutch.
"Tautonyms" are scientific names for which the genus and species are the same.
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.
"Second string," meaning "replacement or backup," comes from the middle ages. An archer always carried a second string in case the one on his bow broke.
"Rhythms" is the longest English word without the normal vowels, a, e, i, o, or u.
"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
"One thousand" contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.
"Ma is as selfless as I am" can be read the same way backwards. If you take away all the spaces you can see that all the letters can be spelled out both ways.
"Four" is the only number whose number of letters in the name equals the number.