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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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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