The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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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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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 word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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