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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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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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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 most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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    Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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    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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    The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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