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    The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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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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    Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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    The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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    The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
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    Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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    Before WWI, German Was the Second Most Widely Spoken Language in the United States
    Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
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    Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
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