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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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    The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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 Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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