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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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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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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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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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