The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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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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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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