Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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