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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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 word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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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