The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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China has more English speakers than 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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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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