The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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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 word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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