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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE (17); ANDI BERGER / SHUTTERSTOCK (18); BART VOS / SHUTTERSTOCK (20); MEDIAGRAM / SHUTTERSTOCK (21)JULIEN TROMEUR / SHUTTERSTOCK (23); G E HYDE / MINDEN PICTURES (24); SERGEYKLOPOTOV / SHUTTERSTOCK (25, R2-D2); TIM ZUROWSKI / ;
SHUTTERSTOCK (25, BIRD); SUSAN OTTERNESS / SHUTTERSTOCK (27); MARIDAV / SHUTTERSTOCK (28); MILA ATKOVSKA / SHUTTERSTOCK (30)

Death-watch beetles

communicate with

each other by using a

clicking syste

to Morse code

TheAlbanianlanguagehas27 words

for different kinds ofmustaches.

A type of slothinSouth

America calledthe ai

(pronounced like the

letteri)is named after

thehigh-pitchedsound

it makes to “talk.”

Thebobolinkbirdis

nicknamed theR2-D2

birdbecause it makes

beeping noisessimilar

to those made by the

Star Warsdroid.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis—atype of lung disease—is the longest word in the English language.

Hawaiianshave

over200 words

for rain.

Cryptophasiaisthe name

given tosecret languages

spoken by somesets

of twins.

Babies’ criescan

sound different in

different languages.

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sounds,octopuses

communicateby

changing color.

Instead of speaking,

residents of La Gomera,

an island near Spain,

often communicate

by whistling.

The first word spoken

by most babies around

the world is“dadda.”

Puppies lick humans

when they’re hungry;

older dogs do it to

show affection.

Pirahã, a language

spoken in Brazil, has

two words to describe

colors. They translate

to “light” and “dark.”

No words rhymewith

“orange” or “purple.”

Mother hens

tarttalking—er,

lucking—to their

chicks about

24 hours before

they’ve hatched.

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nteda language

d aUI (pronounced

W-ee) that he claims

arned from an alien.

Papua New Guinea

has840 languages—

more than any country

in the world.

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