The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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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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