Random English Facts

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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 technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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    English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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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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    'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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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).
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