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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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    French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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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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    Dr. Seuss invented the word 'nerd'.
    Dr. Seuss invented the word 'nerd'.
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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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    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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    Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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