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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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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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    The United States does not have an official language.
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    The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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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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    Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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