Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.
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The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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"Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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A “butt” was a Medieval unit of measure for wine. Technically, a 'buttload' of wine is about 475 liters, or 126 gallons.
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The phrase 'rule of thumb' is derived from and old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.
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The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.
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