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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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    There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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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 sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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    Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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    'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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    The longest word in the English language with no vowels is Rhythms!
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