Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with: orange, purple, and month! Interesting tries from our readers: orange: door hinge, melange (French for mix) purple: hurtle, durple?, turtle month: once, bunth?, hunch
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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