Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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 only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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