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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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 word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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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