Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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