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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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 Chief Translator for the European Parliament can speak 32 different languages fluently.
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    The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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    In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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    Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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