Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter b
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