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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 word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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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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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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    The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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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    Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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