More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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