TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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 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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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).
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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