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    The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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    The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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    The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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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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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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