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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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    In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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    The United States does not have an official language.
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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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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 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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