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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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    A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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    The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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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 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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