The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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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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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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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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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