Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.
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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
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The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.
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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 most popular first name in the world is Muhammad!
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'Vodka' is Russian for 'little water'.
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Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel, "Gadsby", which contains over 50,000 words -- none of them with the letter E!
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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