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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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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