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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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    When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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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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    Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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    The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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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    The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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