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The most translated document in history is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
There are about 7,000 languages spoken on Earth today, but roughly half are endangered.
English is the official language of the sky — all pilots and air traffic controllers must speak it.
There are languages with no word for specific colors — some languages group blue and green as one color.
The word 'robot' comes from the Czech word 'robota', meaning forced labor.
The oldest written language is Sumerian, dating to around 3200 BCE.
Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words still in use today, including 'bedroom', 'lonely', and 'generous'.
The @ symbol is called 'arroba' in Spanish and Portuguese, meaning a unit of weight.
There are more possible games of chess than atoms in the observable universe.
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.
There is a word in Japanese, 'tsundoku', meaning buying books and never reading them.
The word 'set' has the most definitions of any word in the English language — over 430.
Figs aren't technically a fruit — they're an inverted flower, and wasps pollinate them from the inside.
The average person eats about 40 pounds of bread per year.
Fortune cookies were invented in California, not China.
Broccoli is a man-made vegetable — it was cultivated from wild cabbage by ancient Italians.
The word 'ketchup' likely comes from a Chinese fish sauce called 'ke-chiap'.
Carrots were originally purple — the orange variety was cultivated in the Netherlands in the 17th century.
The flavor of artificial strawberry is based on a single variety of wild strawberry that no longer commercially exists.
Pound cake got its name because the original recipe called for a pound each of butter, eggs, flour, and sugar.
The most shoplifted food in the world is cheese.
Almonds are members of the peach family.
Nutmeg is a hallucinogen in large doses.
The holes in Swiss cheese are called 'eyes' — cheese without holes is called 'blind'.
White chocolate is not technically chocolate — it contains no cocoa solids.
Avocados are technically berries — and they evolved to be eaten by giant ground sloths, which are now extinct.
Apples float in water because 25% of their volume is air.
The world's most expensive coffee, Kopi Luwak, is made from beans eaten and excreted by civets.
Chocolate was used as currency by the ancient Maya and Aztec civilizations.
Cashews always come roasted because raw cashews contain urushiol, the same toxin as poison ivy.
Peanuts are not nuts — they're legumes, more closely related to beans.
Honey never spoils — edible honey has been found in 3,000-year-old Egyptian tombs.
Earth is the only planet not named after a god in Roman or Greek mythology.
The magnetic north pole moves — it has shifted hundreds of miles since it was first recorded in 1831.
Norway has a town called Å.
New Zealand was one of the last places on Earth to be settled by humans, around 1250–1300 CE.
The tallest mountain from base to peak is Mauna Kea in Hawaii — it's just mostly underwater.
There is a river in the ocean — the Gulf Stream moves more water than all of Earth's rivers combined.
The Amazon River discharges about 20% of all fresh water that flows into the world's oceans.
Greenland is the world's largest island — Australia is considered a continent.
The world's deepest lake is Lake Baikal in Russia, containing 20% of the world's unfrozen fresh water.
The Earth's inner core rotates at a slightly different speed than the rest of the planet.
More than 70% of Earth's oxygen is produced by marine plants, primarily phytoplankton.
The Sahara Desert is roughly the same size as the continental United States.
Lightning strikes the Earth about 100 times per second.
The Dead Sea is 10 times saltier than the ocean.
Mount Everest is not the closest point to space — that distinction belongs to Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, due to Earth's equatorial bulge.
The Pacific Ocean is larger than all the Earth's landmasses combined.
Africa is larger than China, India, the USA, and Europe combined.
Australia is wider than the Moon.