There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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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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