Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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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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