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    Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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    The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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