The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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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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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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