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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The United States does not have an official language.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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