The word 'nerd' was first used in a Dr. Seuss book in 1950.

Machu Picchu was never discovered by Spanish conquistadors — it was abandoned around 1572 and remained unknown to the outside world until 1911.

Linguistic relativity experiments show speakers of languages with more color words distinguish shades faster.

The world's shortest alphabet, Rotokas of Papua New Guinea, has only 12 letters.

Orcas have unique dialects.

The Japanese concept 'komorebi' means sunlight filtering through leaves — English has no equivalent word.

Latin gave birth to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian — the Romance languages.

The first printed novel in the English language is 'Pamela' by Samuel Richardson (1740) — written as letters.

The philosophy of language explores how words and sentences acquire meaning.