In England, in the 1880's, "Pants" was considered a dirty word!
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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'⸮' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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