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It is believed that a language, or a dialect, goes extinct every two weeks. There are more than 230 completely extinct languages and 2,400 of the world’s languages are considered to be in danger of going extinct. Chinese is the most spoken language in the world and has over 50,000 characters!

The bananas you can buy at your local greengrocer’s are Cavendish bananas, but did you know that people preferred another variety called the Gros Michel? Unfortunately, it became extinct in the 1960s when a fungus wiped out entire harvests.

Einstein was an exceptional human being – and his brain was out of the ordinary, too! A study found that his parietal lobe was 15% larger than average. That’s the region of the brain that is responsible for mathematical thought and spatial cognition.