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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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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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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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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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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