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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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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 word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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