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 "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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 name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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