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There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.
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There are only 7 possible opening moves in draughts.
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There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
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There are only three words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum and continuum.
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There are over 10 000 golf courses in the United States.
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There are over 100 million light sensitive cells in the retina.
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There are over 200 religious denominations in the United States.
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There are over 30 000 verses in the Bible.
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There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. The most widely spoken language in the world is Mandarin Chinese. There are 885,000,000 people in China that speak that language.
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There are six million trees in The Forest of Martyrs near Jerusalem, symbolising the Jewish death toll in World War Two.
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