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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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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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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Englishmen drink more tea than any person of any other nation (over twenty times more than Americans)
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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