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 dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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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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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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