The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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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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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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