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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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    Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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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    The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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    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 most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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