The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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China has more English speakers than the United States.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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