The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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