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By -game yetu | Oct 09, 2013

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1. There are more TV sets in the US than there are people in the UK.

2. Before the year 1000, the word “she” did not exist in the English language. The singular female reference was the word “heo”, which also was the plural of all genders. The word “she” appeared only in the 12th century, about 400 years after English began to take form. “She” probably derived from the Old English feminine “seo”, the Viking word for feminine reference.

3. There are no letters assigned to the numbers 1 and 0 on a phone keypad. These numbers remain unassigned because they are so-called “flag” numbers, kept for special purposes such as emergency or operator services.

4. After the French Revolution of 1789 selling sour wine was considered against national interest and the merchant was promptly executed.

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5. The word malaria comes from the words mal and aria, which means bad air. This derives from the old days when it was thought that all diseases are caused by bad, or dirty air.

6. The names of all the continents end with the letter they start with.

7.On every continent there is a city called Rome.

8. The oldest inhabited city is Damascus, Syria.