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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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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 longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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