Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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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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