The word "impossible" dropped in use by 50% over the course of the 20th century
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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 Simpsons are responsible for popularizing the word 'meh'.
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Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
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The technical term for a cat’s hairball is a “bezoar.”
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'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
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The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
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