The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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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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