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The last thing to happen is the ultimate. The next-to-last is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.
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The leading cause of death in the late 19th century was tuberculosis.
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The leading part in Shakespeare's play 'The Merchant of Venice' is Shylock the Jew, though the play was written during a time when Jews were banned from living in Britain.
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The leap of an average flea is equivalent to a 100 pound man leaping 1,000 and enduring a g-force of 20,000 pounds with an acceleration greater than that of a space shuttle.
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The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart.
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The left side of the brain is usually responsible for the control of speech.
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The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that doesn't have 1 syllable... it has three.
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The letters H I O X in the Latin alphabet is the only ones that look the same if you turn them upside down or see them from behind.
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The Liberal Prime Minister, William Gladstone, was born of the 29th December 1809. Apparently, as a result of his strong Puritan impulses, Gladstone kept a selection of whips in his cellar with which he regularly chastised himself.
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The Lie Detector was invented by John Augustus Larson in 1921.
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