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    More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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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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    Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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    Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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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 word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
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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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