The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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