Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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The longest word in the English language is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconioses!
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The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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