The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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 words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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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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