The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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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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