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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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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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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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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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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