The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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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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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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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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If you mouth the word "colorful" to someone, it looks like you are saying "I love you".
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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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