The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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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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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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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