There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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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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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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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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