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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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    In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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    The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
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    Strawberry Word Origin
    Strawberry Word Origin
    Nobody really knows where strawberries got their name.
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    The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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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    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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