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    In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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    '⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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    China has more English speakers than the United States.
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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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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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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