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    In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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    Color Orange Named After The Fruit
    The color orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around.
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    The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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    The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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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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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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    The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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    The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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