Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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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