The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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