Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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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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