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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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    Color Orange Named After The Fruit
    The color orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around.
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    Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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