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 six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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 longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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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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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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