Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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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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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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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