The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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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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Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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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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French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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