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    In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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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 dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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    Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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