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A BIT OBTUSE?: England. After the Roman rule of Britain ended in 406 A.D., it became a battleground for many invaders. The most prominent were the Germanic tribes the Angles and the Saxons. The Angles came from a fishhook-shaped region in northern Germany called Angul (believed to be the origin of the word angle—to fish).
WHY DON’T THEY SPEAK GERMAN?: France. The Franks were a Germanic tribe that settled along the Rhine River in Germany during the third and fourth centuries. (Frankfurt is named after them.) They would go on to conquer nearly all of northern Europe, eventually settling in what is now France.
OVERCOATIA: Gabon. In the 15th century, Portuguese traders, the first Europeans to visit this part of Africa, thought the Como River’s estuary was shaped like a traditional Portuguese overcoat called a gabao. So that’s what they called it—which became Gabon.
The average human ear grows 0.01 inches in length every year.
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