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 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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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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