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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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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