There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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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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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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