1. Hoover vacuum cleaners were so popular in the UK that many people now refer to vacuuming as hoovering.

2. Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.

3. 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."

4. Floccinaucinihilipilification, the declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the English language.

5. WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.

6. "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."

7. The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning "side of a hill".

8. The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.

9. 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

10. The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large pearl.

11. There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world today.

12. Shakespeare's works contain first-ever recordings of 2,035 English words, including critical, frugal, excellent, barefaced, assassination, and countless.

13. The Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.