Urdu and Hindi are mutually intelligible in speech but written in completely different scripts.

The Spanish-American War took place in 1898.

The word 'nerd' was first coined by Dr. Seuss in 'If I Ran the Zoo' in 1950.

Languages with no future tense have speakers who statistically save more money.

All human languages have nouns and verbs — but many lack adjectives, adverbs, or other categories found in English.

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

The word 'dollar' derives from the Bohemian Joachimsthal, where silver coins called 'Joachimsthaler' (thalers) were minted.

There are more possible passwords of 8 characters than grains of sand on Earth.

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