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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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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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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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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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    The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
    they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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