The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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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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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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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 around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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