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 "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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