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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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