The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world 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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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The word 'Indiana' is Native American for 'Land of the Indians', yet less than 16,000 Native Americans live there.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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