The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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 Bible has been translated into Klingon.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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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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