There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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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