The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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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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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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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 Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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