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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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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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