Quick question: you know what’s pretty freaking cool? The alphabet. OK, it’s not as cool as James Bond, a Viper, Jay-Z or a Harley, but we use it everyday and I bet there are some things about it that you didn’t already know. There are, of course, twenty-six letters in the alphabet. And once I plant the letter X here, I’ve used all of them in this paragraph. Here’s some more things that are interesting about letters in the alphabet.

These letters don’t have any curved lines:

AEFHIKLMNTVWXYZ

And these letters don’t have any straight lines:

COS

These letters don’t have any enclosed areas:

CEFGHIJKLMNSTUVWXYZ

These letters are all used as Roman Numerals:

CDILMVX

When using Morse Code, these letters are represented with only dots:

EHIS

In Morse Code, these letters are just dashes:

MOT

These letters are symmetrical both vertically and horizontally, meaning they look exactly the same both upside-down and when flipped from side-to-side.

HIOX

Finally, these letters are drawn pretty much the same in both uppercase and lowercase:

COPSUVWXZ