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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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 word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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    Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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