In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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