The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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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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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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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 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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