The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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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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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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