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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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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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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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    Color Orange Named After The Fruit
    The color orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around.
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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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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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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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    More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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