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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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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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    The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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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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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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    The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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    China has more English speakers than the United States.
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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