The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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The United States does not have an official language.
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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
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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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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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