Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word "listen" contains the same letters as "silent."
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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The word 'gymnasium' comes from the Greek word gymnazein which means 'to exercise naked.'"
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Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
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