The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 introduced French vocabulary — 30% of modern English words come from French.

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

The Sumerian language, one of the earliest written, died as a spoken language around 2000 BC but continued as a liturgical language for centuries.

There are more possible unique passwords than atoms on Earth.

The longest palindrome in English is a sentence: 'A man, a plan, a canal: Panama.'

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

Wikipedia has over 65 million articles across all languages — English alone has over 6 million.

Language death is driven by economic and political power — speakers shift to more useful languages.

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