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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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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 "pornography" comes from the Greek meaning the "writings of prostitutes."
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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