There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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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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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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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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