The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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