In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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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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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 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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