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The word disaster comes from the Greek term for an unlucky star
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The most linguistically diverse country has over eight hundred languages
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The Turkish sun theory once claimed all languages came from central Asia
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Some languages have no word for 'yes' or 'no'
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Frisian is English's closest living language relative
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Tibetan script stacks letters vertically
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Spilling the beans may come from ancient voting
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LOL meant 'little old lady' before the internet
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When did quotation marks first appear in books?
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The word 'nerd' first appeared in a Dr Seuss book
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The Pirahã language has no numbers beyond two
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The sentence 'Buffalo buffalo' makes grammatical sense
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The dollar's surprising origin in a Bohemian silver mine
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Bengali script visually echoes poetic rhythms
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Irish Gaelic keeps ancient Celtic stories alive
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