The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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The United States does not have an official language.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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