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    The United States does not have an official language.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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    Ioannis Ikonomou
    Ioannis Ikonomou
    The Chief Translator for the European Parliament can speak 32 different languages fluently.
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    The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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    The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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    The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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    There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
    tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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