The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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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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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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