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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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