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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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