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    French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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    The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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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 word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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