The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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