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    The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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    The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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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 name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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    The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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