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 six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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