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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Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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