Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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