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 Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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