In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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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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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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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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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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