The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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