The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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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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