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 name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The United States does not have an official language.
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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