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    The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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    Dr. Seuss invented the word 'nerd'.
    Dr. Seuss invented the word 'nerd'.
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    More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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    Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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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 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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