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Curiosities |
The
word 'news' did not come about because it was the plural of 'new.' It came from the first
letters of the words North, East, West and South. This was because information was being
gathered from all different directions. |
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In
1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the
computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since,
when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it. |
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There are
some 6,500 languages in use today.
Of these, many have fewer than 1,000 speakers. |
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