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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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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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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