The @ symbol is called 'arroba' in Spanish and Portuguese, meaning a unit of weight.

Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 sonnets — and invented over 1,700 words still used in English.

Fact #8231 · Language

The word 'set' has the most definitions in the English language — over 430 in some dictionaries.

Fact #5620 · Language

The average educated English speaker knows 40,000–50,000 words but uses only 5,000–10,000 daily.

Fact #6225 · Language

George Orwell's '1984' introduced terms like 'Big Brother,' 'doublethink,' and 'Newspeak' into everyday language.

Fact #8222 · Language

The record for most languages spoken by one person is held by Ziad Fazah — he claims fluency in 58 languages.

Fact #7154 · Language

People tend to mirror the body language of those they like.

Fact #2946 · Language

The Inca spread their language Quechua throughout their empire — it's still spoken by 8–10 million people today.

Fact #8354 · Language

The alphabet is a Greek innovation — the Greeks added vowels to the Phoenician consonant alphabet around 800 BC.

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