In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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