Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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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 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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 word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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