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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English sailors were referred to as "limeys" because sailors added lime juice to their diet to combat scurvy.
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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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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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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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 six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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