English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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