In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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