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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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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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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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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