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    The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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    Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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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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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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