Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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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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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 word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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