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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WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
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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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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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