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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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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