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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
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"Evian" spelled backwards is naive.
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"Freelance" comes from a knight whose lance was free for hire, i.e. not pledged to one master.
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"Halloween" the movie was originally going to be titled "The Babysitter Murders".
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"Happy Birthday" was the first song to be performed in outer space, sung by the Apollo IX astronauts on March 8, 1969.
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"Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."
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"Kemo Sabe" means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
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"Long in the tooth," meaning "old," was originally used to describe horses. As horses age, their gums recede, giving the impression that their teeth are growing. The longer the teeth look, the older the horse.
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"Mr. Mojo Risin" is an anagram for Jim Morrison.
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"Ough" can be pronounced in eight different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, coughing and hiccoughing thoughtfully.
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