'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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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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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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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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