The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter b
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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