The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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 most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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