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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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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    The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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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 United States does not have an official language.
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