The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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