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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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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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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Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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