Interesting Facts

Researchers at Harvard University and Google have found that the English language has expanded by 8,500 words a year in the new millennium and now stands at 1,022,000 words. ( But nearly half of the new words are not included in any dictionary and are dubbed lexical "dark matter". They are either slang or invented jargon.  Which is why we have the Urban Dictionary.)   Source

Ethiopia's calendar is more than seven years behind that of the rest of the world - there, it is still 1999. (So, if you fancy celebrating the new millenium again head over to Ethiopia in September, when they will be celebrating the year 2000.)