The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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