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    When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
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    There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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    Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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    WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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    The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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    In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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