The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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