Pointless fact of the day

[bright spark]

In the US more people are killed by storms/tornadoes with women's names than men's names. They reckon that the yanks take the 1's with ladies names less serious. Don't know how true that is but nothing would surprise me

 

[Ray Stafford]

Peter the Great, Tsar of all the Russians, visited both Holland and England "incognito" in the 1690s - pretending to be a humble shipwright.

He was humoured by both states, who officially pretended to ignore him, whilst actually providing bodyguards, liaison officers etc.

 

[SimonG]

Bats alwayscturn left when leaving a cave.

 

[kris]

Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand,,

 

[kris]

We have alot of useless things inside our heads

 

[Ray Stafford]

Bookkeeper is the only word (along with its derivatives like bookkeeping) in the English language with three successive pairs of double letters.

 

[Ray Stafford]

We have alot of useless things inside our heads

I predict that this thread will run and run.

 

[kris]

What i wrote was my fact , yours too ray hehe

 

[kris]

Theres no word in the english dictionary that rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple

 

[Ray Stafford]

the longest palindrome in the English language is "rotavator"