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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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    More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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    In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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