Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word 'News' is actually an acronym standing for the 4 cardinal compass points - North, East, West, and South!
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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