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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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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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    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 Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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