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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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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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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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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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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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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