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.
4
Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
5
The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
12
'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
236
Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
2
In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
28