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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.
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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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