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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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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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    The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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    The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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