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    Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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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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    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 word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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    The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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    '⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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    Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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    The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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