Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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