TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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