Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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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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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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