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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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    Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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    Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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    The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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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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    Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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 "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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