Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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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 equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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