In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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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 word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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