The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
135
The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
6
"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
297
There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
100
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.
4
Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
17
"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
384
Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
5