Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The dab of toothpaste you squeeze onto your toothbrush is called a "nurdle".
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There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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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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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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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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