Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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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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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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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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