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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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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