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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
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    The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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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    Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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 onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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