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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Canada is an Indian word meaning 'Big Village'.
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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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