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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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    The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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    The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan.
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    "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"!
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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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    "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
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    The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!
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    The word taxi is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese.
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