The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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