The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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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 phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter b
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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