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    Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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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    The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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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    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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    The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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