The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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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 six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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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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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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