The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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