Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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