The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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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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 words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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