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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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    More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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    The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
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    Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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    The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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    The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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