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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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    The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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    The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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    The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
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    Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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