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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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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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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 word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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