Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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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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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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