A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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