The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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