The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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