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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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use 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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