The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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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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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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