The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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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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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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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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