The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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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 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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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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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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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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