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    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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    The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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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