The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
135
'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
17
There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
15
The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
10
The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
6
The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
14