More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
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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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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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