Q: What is the estimate of the number of
actively spoken languages in the world today?
A: About 6,500. However,
about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most popular
language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 1.2 billion people in the
world that speak that language.
Q: Pinocchio is Italian for what?
A: Pine Head
Q:What is a palindrome? A: A palindrome is a word that is spelled the same way from both ends.
For example: racecar
Q: We have all had the hiccups,
but what is the record for the longest bout?
A:
The world record
for the longest continuous bout of hiccups goes to Charles Osborne (1894–1991)
from Anthon, Iowa. The hiccups started in 1922 at a rate of 40 times per
minute, slowing to 20 and eventually stopping in February 1990 – a total of 68
years.
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