'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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