The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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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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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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 Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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