The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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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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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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