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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Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.
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The word 'set' has more definitions than any other word in the English language.
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The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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The United States does not have an official language.
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In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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