Random English Facts

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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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    Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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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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    The P.S. at the end of a letter stands for Post Script.
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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 words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
    they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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