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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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    The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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    There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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    The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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    "Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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