The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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