In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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