Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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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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Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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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 dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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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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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed check".
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