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Emoji” is derived from three Japanese words: “e” for picture, “mo” for write, “ji” for character. @googlefactss#funfact

More than 2,000 years ago Persians used yakhchals — ancient desert "refrigerators" — to make sorbet-like desserts and store ice. [read more here] @googlefactss#funfact

The word “canvas” is related to the word “cannabis.” Historically, canvases were made of hemp. @googlefactss#funfact

Getting dumped often leads to “frustration attraction,” which causes an individual to love the one who dumped him or her even more. @googlefactss#funfact

Human mucophagy (literally "mucus feeding") is the act of eating one's own "boogers." @googlefactss#funfact

Cats don’t have sweat glands over their bodies like humans do. Instead, they sweat only through their paws. @googlefactss#funfact

The word "work" is from the Proto-Indo-European word *werg, meaning "to do." @googlefactss#funfact

The Greek name for the mosquito is "anopheles," which means “good for nothing @googlefactss#funfact

The chess term “checkmate” is from a 14th-century Persian phrase, “shah mat," meaning “the king is helpless. @googlefactss#funfact

Each leopard's spot pattern is unique, like a human fingerprint, allowing individual leopards to be identified. @googlefactss#funfact

A pangram is a sentence that contains every letter in the language. For example, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." @googlefactss#funfact

If you wrote out all the numbers (e.g. one, two, three . . . ), you would not use the letter "b" until the word "billion." @googlefactss#funfact