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    The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".
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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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    Beelzebub is Hebrew for 'Lord of the Flies'.
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    The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
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    The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
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    Crayola is a French word that means 'Oily chalk.'"
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    In England, in the 1880's, 'Pants' was considered a dirty word.
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    Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.
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