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 only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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