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 "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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