The most used letter in the English alphabet is 'E', and 'Q' is the least used!
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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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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The word "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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