On Facts

Facts are stupid things.
- Ronald Reagan

My brother and I collect little-known facts. Some of the below we discovered ourselves, others we lifted from comedy shows and similar serious investigative organisations, others were suggested by our friends. You're all invited to contribute more in the comments page. If one of them's yours and you object to it being here, or if you think any of them may be untrue, let me know.

• There’s a town called Rickmansworth in every continent.
• The moon can be seen from the Great Wall of China.
• The EU allows cows to contain as much as 5% pork meat.
• Seahorses are born inside out.
• The English words “food poisoning” are a direct derivative of the Turkish words “donner kebab”.
• The average grapefruit contains 11 immigrants.
• The Portuguese for Turkey is Peru.
• The human brain has fewer than six moving parts.
• Nostrodamus predicted that Angus Deayton would be called Keith Chegwin.
• In 1925, scientists discovered the world’s youngest ever person.
• The penguin is so called because of its temperament.
• Shakespeare knew over two hundred words for eskimo, ten percent of which were lost through his head.
• During the 1920s, three out of four American men had invented the telephone.
• The koala bear isn’t in fact a bear at all, but a type of nut.
• “Brunettes” is the only word in the English language with all the vowels in the correct order.
• Owls are the only animal capable of love.
• 17% of the USA has been illegal for over 2,000 years.
• Whales were invented in Milton Keynes and were originally used as musical instruments.
• In portugal, cats say “miajito”.
• If you took all the little round pieces of paper that hole punches produce in a year and put them end to end, they would blow away before you could do anything useful with them.
• Squirrels are the densest of all land mammals.
• Fats Domino went through his whole life unaware that his name was Onimod Staf backwards. This is the equivalent of four football pitches.
• Tea has no smell.