French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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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 dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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