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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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    Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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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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    TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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    The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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