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    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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    There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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    'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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    Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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    Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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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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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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