Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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 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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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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