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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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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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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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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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    French was the official language of England for over 600 years.
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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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