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 are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world 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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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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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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