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Strawberry Word Origin
Nobody really knows where strawberries got their name.
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Ioannis Ikonomou
The Chief Translator for the European Parliament can speak 32 different languages fluently.
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Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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A single banana is called a finger and a bunch of bananas is called a hand.
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Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.
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'Niblings' is the plural, gender-neutral term for nieces and nephews.
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Dr. Seuss invented the word 'nerd'.
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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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