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    Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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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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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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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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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
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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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