Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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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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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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