The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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