The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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