Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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The Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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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 names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start, excluding the North and South infront of AmericA.
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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