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    There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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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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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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    Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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    China has more English speakers than the United States.
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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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