Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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