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    The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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    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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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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    The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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    Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch procejt at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnt mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter b
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