Random English Facts

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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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    The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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    The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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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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    Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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