In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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