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    Color Orange Named After The Fruit
    The color orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around.
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    Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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    The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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    Ioannis Ikonomou
    Ioannis Ikonomou
    The Chief Translator for the European Parliament can speak 32 different languages fluently.
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    'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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    The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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    The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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    In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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