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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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    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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    Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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    'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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