"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
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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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When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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