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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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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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 six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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