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It’s especially unusual because men and women speak different dialects; while women have a passive understanding of men’s language they do not speak it, and vice versa for the men.
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Surprisingly, Vancouver – not Shanghai, Hong Kong or Las Vegas – was once the neon capital of the planet.
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The Micronesian island of Yap has a famously unusual currency: hundreds of giant discs of rocks scattered all over the island, many of them too heavy to move.
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In Palm Springs, California, the date shake is the perfect foil to the resort town’s desert heat: a sweet, chilly treat with surprisingly complex flavours.
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At just 56cm wide, Bermuda’s Somerset Bridge is the world's smallest drawbridge, just wide enough to accommodate the mast of a sailboat.
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A travel writer raised in war-torn Yugoslavia goes back to search for her lost country two decades after it fell apart.
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There is no equivalent word in English, though the concept is simple: sobremesa is the time you spend at the table after you’ve finished eating.
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