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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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    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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    The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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    Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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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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    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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