Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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