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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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    Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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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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    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 Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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