The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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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 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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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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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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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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