The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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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