The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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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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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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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