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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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 name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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    Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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    The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
    they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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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 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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