Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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