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    The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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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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    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 taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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 sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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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    The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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