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    There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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    Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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