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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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 distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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 dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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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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    The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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