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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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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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    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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    Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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