The word 'rule of thumb' does not have an origin in domestic violence — this is a persistent false etymology.

English borrowed about 30% of its vocabulary from French, primarily after the Norman Conquest of 1066.

English has the largest vocabulary of any language — the Oxford English Dictionary contains over 600,000 words.

English has more words than any other language — but speakers use fewer than 1% of the dictionary in daily life.

The Hawaiian language has only 13 letters — 5 vowels and 8 consonants.

The concept of a 'dead language' is complex — Latin died as a spoken tongue but gave birth to French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian.

The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.

Wikipedia has over 60 million articles across 300 languages — and is mostly maintained by volunteers.

Mandarin Chinese is the language with the most native speakers at about 920 million.