The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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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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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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