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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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    Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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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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    Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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