The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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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 sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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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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 United States does not have an official language.
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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