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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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    The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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