There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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 six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use 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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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