The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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