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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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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In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”:
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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