China has more English speakers than the United States.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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