Factoids

[HAL9000]

In the English language....

The number "four" is the only number that is spelt with the same number of letters as the number itself and "forty" is the only number that has all its letters in alphabetical order.

Which is the only number to have its letters in reverse alphabetical order?

See The Most Pathetic Fact in Maths for more.

[HonaloochieB]

Between them the 80s pop group Darts couldn't sling an arrer to save their lives.

[daizie]

Ooow now there was a group ..

[waynetta]

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off.

[HonaloochieB]

80s pop group Johnny Hates Jazz didn't in fact hate Jazz at all.

Between them they had the entire Miles Davis back catalogue.

And one of them was the son of record mogul Mickie Most.

[waynetta]

You can't tickle yourself.

[DulwichFox]

Millwall when capitalised

M I L L W A L L

is the only football team to use only straight letters. (no curves)

[felt-tip]

H U L L

is the only one that doesn't have any enclosed spaces in its letters.

[DulwichFox]

felt-tip Wrote:

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> H U L L

>

> is the only one that doesn't have any enclosed

> spaces in its letters.

What apart from mmmhhmm C E L T I C

[Nero]

There is no rhyme for the word 'month'.

[HonaloochieB]

Nero Wrote:

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> There is no rhyme for the word 'month'.

Wouldn't a lisped c*nts count?

[waynetta]

Bob Holness played the sax solo in Gerry Rafferty's 'Baker Street'.

[HonaloochieB]

No he didn't Waynetta.

But Michael Portillo holds a controlling interest in a firm that supplies 'Portaloos'.

[Alec John Moore]

Also cigarillos.

[Alec John Moore]

The average speed of London's road traffic at 12 mph hasn't changed in 100 years.

[Lost Yorkshire Man]

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different

ways. The following sentence contains them all:

"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

[Jeremy]

The "ough" in slough and ploughman is the same.

[KidKruger]

no because it's not 'Slough' the place.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

KK - slough as in Slough of Despond and Slough as in place to be avoided, are pronounced the same. (I think!)

[Alec John Moore]

In London in the 21st century you are never more than 6' (about 2 metres in new money) away from a giant rat.

[Jeremy]

Kruger, how do you pronounce the "slough" in "falling into a slough"?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Groan. Brain just kicked into gear. KK is right if one takes 'factoid' to be a spurious thing.