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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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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