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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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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