In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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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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The United States does not have an official language.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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