The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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