The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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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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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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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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