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    The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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