Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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