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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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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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    '⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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