Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
6
When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
20
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.
4
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.
28
The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
135
The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
6
The United States does not have an official language.
88