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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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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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 word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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