Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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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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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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