The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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