The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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 United States does not have an official language.
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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