The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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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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The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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