Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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