In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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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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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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