The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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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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