More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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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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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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