The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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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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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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world 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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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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