APOLLO, PENNSYLVANIA

At the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Apollo, Pennsylvania was the only place in the world named Apollo. Coincidentally, Apollo is in Armstrong County, and the name of the first astronaut to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong. But wait; it gets better. On the day of the moon landing, members of the Apollo fire department dressed as astronauts and drove to nearby Moon Township, Pennsylvania, where they planted a flag and returned with some “Moon Soil”. And, by the way, Apollo, PA is a palindrome (reads the same forward and backward).

APOLLO 11 MEMORIAL IN APOLLO, PA

MOST CHARACTERISTIC WORDS FOR DYING IN 2015 OBITUARIES BY STATE

THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLD

TOP 1O ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES (ABSOLUTE NUMBERS)
Country	English as a First Language		Country	As an Additional Language		Country	Total English Speakers
United States	234,171,566		India	125,118,287		United States	283,160,411
United Kingdom	54,400,000		Philippines	104,203,955		India	125,344,737
Canada	19,460,850		Pakistan	81,000,000		Philippines	95,025,890
Australia	15,013,965		Nigeria	79,000,000		Nigeria	79,000,000
South Africa	4,930,510		United States	48,988,855		United Kingdom	59,600,000
Ireland	4,122,100		Germany	45,100,000		Germany	45,400,000
New Zealand	3,673,623		Bangladesh	29,398,158		Bangladesh	30,108,031
Jamaica	2,600,000		Egypt	28,101,325		Canada	29,973,590
Singapore	1,873,302		France	23,000,000		Egypt	28,101,325
Trinidad and Tobago	1,145,000		Ghana	18,000,000		France	23,000,000

  

TOP 10 ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES (PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION)
Country	English As a First Language		Country	As an Additional Language		Country	Total English Speakers
Jamaica	95.80		Netherlands	90.00		Barbados	98.57
Ireland	93.21		Denmark	86.00		Ireland	98.37
United Kingdom	92.14		Sweden	86.00		New Zealand	97.82
New Zealand	85.93		Cyprus	73.00		United Kingdom	97.74
United States	79.00		Austria	73.00		Jamaica	97.64
Australia	70.17		Finland	70.00		Australia	97.00
Canada	52.40		Ghana	66.67		Nauru	96.67
Singapore	36.90		Philippines	63.72		United States	95.46
Liberia	16.00		Malaysia	61.10		Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	95.00
South Africa	9.30		Belgium	60.00		Philippines	94.73

APTRONYMS

An aptronym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner.

Jules Angst	German professor of psychiatry who has published works about anxiety
Michael Ball	Football player
Lonzo Ball	Basketball player
Sara Blizzard	Meteorologist for the BBC
Usain Bolt	Jamaican sprinter
Rosalind Brewer	Executive at Starbucks and former director at Molson Coors Brewing Company
Margaret Court	Australian tennis player
Thomas Crapper	Sanitary engineer
Josh Earnest	Third press secretary for the Obama administration. His name literally means, ‘just kidding, but seriously’.
Cecil Fielder	Baseball player
Prince Fielder	Baseball player
Amy Freeze	American meteorologist
George Train	American railroad entrepreneur
Igor Judge	English judge and Lord Chief Justice
Chris Moneymaker	American poker player and 2003 World Series of Poker champion
Josh Outman	Baseball pitcher
Marilyn vos Savant	American columnist who has been cited for having the world’s highest recorded IQ
Anthony Weiner	American politician involved in sexting scandals

ENGLISH LANGUAGE - WORDPLAY

If you take the word "wizard" and replace every letter with its reverse (a becomes z; b becomes y; c becomes x, etc.), you get the word "draziw" which is "wizard" spelled backwards. Wizard is the longest word that this can be done with.

MOST COMMONLY SPOKEN LANGUAGES AFTER ENGLISH AND SPANISH BY STATE

POLISH SPEAKERS IN IRELAND OUTNUMBER IRISH SPEAKERS

The Irish Constitution describes Irish as the “national language”, but English is the dominant language. In the 2006 census, 39% of the population regarded themselves as competent in Irish. Irish is spoken as a community language only in a small number of rural areas in mostly in the west and south of the country.

As a result of immigration, Polish is the most widely spoken language in Ireland after English with Irish as the third most spoken.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland