The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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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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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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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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