The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
287
A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
10
French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
91
The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
76
'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
17
In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
9
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).
10
More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
12