Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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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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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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