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[Language fact 1] The movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” set a Guinness World Records record for most swearing in one film. The movie used the f-word 506 times with an average of 2.81 times per minute.
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[Language fact 2] The word with the most meanings in English is the verb 'set', with 430 senses listed in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989. The word commands the longest entry in the dictionary at 60,000 words or 326,000 characters.
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[Language fact 3] The most complex character in the Chinese language takes 57 strokes to write. It is a noodle dish.
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[Language fact 4] We call letters "uppercase" and "lowercase" because the original printing presses kept letter blocks in literal cases; since small letters were used more often, they kept them in the bottom case for easy access; thus, lowercase (and uppercase) were born.
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[Language fact 5] Motto of the news satire organization, “The Onion” is “Tu stultus es” which in Latin translates to “You're an idiot.”
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[Language fact 6] The Dog's Bollocks is a defunct punctuation mark which appears in the Declaration of Independence and symbolizes a pause but fell to the wayside because of its phallic resemblance.
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[Language fact 7] The language of Jabba the Hutt "Huttese" is based on Quechua - The Incan language still spoken in parts of South America.
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[Language fact 8] The Boa Constrictor is the only living animal which is commonly known by its full Latin name, boa constrictor. The only other example is the extinct Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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[Language fact 9] The Vietnamese word for shark literally translates to “fat fish” and the Afrikaans word for an office “stapler” literally translates to “paper vampire.”
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[Language fact 10] A region (Rio Omerê Indigenous Territory) in Brazil is home to the remnants of two native tribes, consisting of four and five people, respectively, who “speak mutually unintelligible languages, but are linked by marriage,” as well as “an unknown man who lives alone and is thought the be the last survivor of a different tribe.”
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