The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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