Random English Facts

    33 facts tagged with English Facts

    'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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    The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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    Strawberry Word Origin
    Strawberry Word Origin
    Nobody really knows where strawberries got their name.
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    The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
    they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with 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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    Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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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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