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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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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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    The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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    The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
    they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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    There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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