There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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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 “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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