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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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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    China has more English speakers than the United States.
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    The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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    The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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    The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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