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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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    The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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    In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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    Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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 word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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