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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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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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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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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