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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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    More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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    Ioannis Ikonomou
    Ioannis Ikonomou
    The Chief Translator for the European Parliament can speak 32 different languages fluently.
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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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