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*Half of the states in the USA names derive from indigenous languages
*Having evolved before bees appeared, the flowers of the Magnolia tree developed to encourage pollination by beetles. As a result, the carpels of Magnolia flowers are tough, to avoid damage by eating and crawling beetles. Fossilized specimens of M. acuminata have been found dating to 20 million years ago
*Tolkien wanted Quenya(Elvish) to be one of the most beautiful languages ever created. Thus one of his rules was that no consonant cluster could begin or end a syllable(with a few exceptions). (he must have thought armenian was pretty ugly)
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