Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The word 'mortgage' comes from a French law term that means 'death pledge'.
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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Q is the only letter in the alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the United States!
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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A legend suggests that clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get fired."
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