Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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More people in China speak English than in the United States.
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Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye"!
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Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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