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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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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