Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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