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 word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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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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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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