The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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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 P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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