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Apart from South prefixes, there are no US states beginning with S despite it being a common letter. There are EIGHT beginning with M.
And 31 of them end with vowels. How strange.
Statistically insignificant tho, I bet.
Granite is roughly as dense as aluminium.
Only one US state's name is a single syllable.
Only one US state doesn't have at least one border that is a straight line.
I just ate a danish pastry and am halfway through drinking a cup of tea.
And my lunch cost me £1.70 (aforementioned danish and a cheese and pickle sarnie).
Pyro - Maine
Avdave - Hawaii?
Only one US state's name is a single syllable.
Maine?
A chickens reproductive orifice is the cloaca
Yes Molgrips
Edit. blimey. bit slow.
Here's one:
317,000,000 x 1,000,000 = 317,000,000,000,000
I have £2.11 in coins in my pocket. This consists of a pound coin, a 50p coin, five 10p coins, two 5p coins and a 1p coin.
Pimlico is the only tube station that contains no letters from the word badger.
Also, there's a thrush outside my study window smashing snails to death on the garden steps.
i first tried to get to sleep at 01:03 this morning.
Blackpool tower is built on foundations of cotton wool
Sardines are packed in so tightly because the oil costs more by volume than the sardines.
I have run out of milk
Slough is the smallest unitary authority by area that is not also a ceremonial county
Our two year old is the spawn of the devil and does not like sleep.
perchy - you're banned. That is an interesting fact. I looked it up.
Our two year old is the spawn of the devil and does not like sleep
You are the Devil and I claim my five pounds.
[i]Pimlico is the only tube station that contains no letters from the word badger[/i]
This, my friend, is going on my list of favourite facts.
I'll go with:
If you stand at the bottom of the tower in the Palace of Westminster that holds Big Ben (Queen Elizabeth Tower, I think it's called), listening to the chimes of Big Ben on Radio 4 (which are broadcast live), you'll hear them on your radio before you hear them from the bell itself.
Slough is the smallest unitary authority by area that is not also a ceremonial county
Slough can also be pronounced three different ways depending on context.
perchy - you're banned. That is an interesting fact. I looked it up.
Everything's interesting to someone. Personally it bored the tits off me.
Rutland is the smallest county in England. And so is the Isle of Wight.
Pimlico is the only tube station that contains no letters from the word badger.
St John's Wood & makerel
also
Debden & pathologicopsychological...
People often think that Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch contains 58 characters when it really contains 51.
Count them yourself if you don't believe me.
I can only think of two ways to pronounce slough?
Rutland is the smallest county in England. And so is the Isle of Wight.
Isle of Wight is in Hampshire I thought.
molgrips - Member
I can only think of two ways to pronounce slough?
Slew (through)
Sluff (rough)
Slaw (bough)
Actualy it's pronounced "shithole" 
Slew? Who says that?
It didn't rain here this morning but it did rain here yesterday.
IHN - MemberRutland is the smallest county in England. And so is the Isle of Wight.
The Isle of Wight is only the smallest county for half a year...during high tide.
Pimlico is the only tube station that contains no letters from the word badger.
If I was wearing a cap, I'd doff it for that. Fantastic work. 🙂
If you stand at the base of the Shard and try to see the top,you will fall over.
[i]Slew? Who says that?[/i]
The sorts of people who think "Sex" is a thing for carrying other things.
The Queen?
The single most volatile and explosive substance known to man is called Picolax 😯
One that always seems to get people frothing at the mouth with excitement but i always find earth shatteringly uninteresting is that there is an arrow in the Fedex logo.
Buckfastleigh in Devon, Buslingthorpe in Leeds, West Yorkshire and Buslingthorpe in Lincolnshire are the longest place names in the United Kingdom without repeating any letters, with 13 letters.
The most poisonous & expensive substance is botox
Dogs can't look up
A duck's quack does echo.
The most poisonous & expensive substance is botox
I bet plutonium is more expensive.
Norwegian Elkhounds can smell game from over a mile away.
Norwegian Elkhounds can smell game from over a mile away.
Handy if you need to trade in your xbox in Norway.
Dogs can't look up
Top trolling!
[b]Uninteresting[/b] facts
But I am finding some of the facts fascinating!
Green Day's hit album, Dookie, was remixed twice prior to release.
(if that website is to be trusted) disappointingly, there is a (single) tube station with none of the letters of "shithole"
It's Bank - curiously the station where I'd expect to find the majority of shits 😉
I can believe it's not butter
Mainly because it's not butter
Being a professional cycling heretic, I run a pair of tubeless road wheels, with tubes!
I still have my first pair of after market MTB wheels.
There is one TTD scotch egg in my fridge at home.
the word 'turn' has 288 definitions in English which would be more interesting if there weren't 5 other words which have quite a lot more definitions than that
Mogrim, I read something somewhere (can't find it now) that the worlds supply of Botox is made from something daft like one gram and it costs trillions to manufacture.
May have qty's wrong but I is indeed the most expensive substance on the planet to manufacture.
If you stand at the bottom of the tower in the Palace of Westminster that holds Big Ben (Queen Elizabeth Tower, I think it's called), listening to the chimes of Big Ben on Radio 4 (which are broadcast live), you'll hear them on your radio before you hear them from the bell itself.
Not if it's a DAB radio 🙂
Yesterday i got wet riding to work and had no spare pants so I went commando all day.
Today I am wearing pants.
As a teenager I was invited to train with the British Olympic Cross Country Skiing development squad, despite barely being able to ski (they were desperate). I didn't go.
Mogrim, I read something somewhere (can't find it now) that the worlds supply of Botox is made from something daft like one gram and it costs trillions to manufacture.May have qty's wrong but I is indeed the most expensive substance on the planet to manufacture.
Ha, now it's an interesting fact so even if correct, you lose 😀
Had a bit of a google - it's better than working - and you're correct. Loser.
There's only one number where the letters are in alphabetical order... and I'm not going to tell you which one it is 🙂
"Knightsbridge" contains the longest consonant cluster in the English language.
There are 6 toilets on the first floor of Bolagna airport.
g and h come before i in the alphabet squidlord. So it's not eight 🙂
The longest word you can type on a single row of keys on a standard QWERTY keyboard is "typewriter"
forty!!!!! I win!!!!!
<hang on best double check - phew>
Yeah, Wooooh!
There is a reflective strip of material placed on the dial face, under the needle of a gauge, to assist the reader in avoiding parallax error.
[i] franksinatra - Member
Today I am wearing pants[/i]
I can see that, you're wearing them on your head.
FACT!
Smatkins - yes, realised as soon as I saw it written down. But you were too quick for me!
My first name is an anagram of the town where i was born
Sainsburys tinned mackerel in spicy tomato sauce, is indeed spicy.
The French call paperclips "les trombones" because they look like little trombones...
molgrips - Member
I can only think of two ways to pronounce slough?
Slew (through)
Sluff (rough)
Slaw (bough)
If this is just "ways -ough is pronounced" then there's more than that.
How about:
Sloff (cough)
slow (though)
and, er, the way that "Slough" is usually pronounced, which I would personally think rhymes with "bough" - not sure who pronounces "bough" in a way that rhymes with "slaw"?
Oh, and simply, "Sluh" as in "borough"
EDIT: We used to have an English teacher called Mr Clough who's name we delighted pronouncing in all of the above ways, and probably a few more that I've since forgotten. There, now that's properly boring.
Elton John's middle name is "Hercules."
[b]They[/b] said it was going to be sunny all day,[b]they[/b] lied.
[i] ,they lied.[/i]
They always do.
Darth Vader is the OP's father!
Elton John is shit. Now [i]that [/i]is a fact.
Hercules middle name is reg dwight!,...lol
There is no such thing as a "seagull" (yawn)
The little bit on the end of a shoelace is called an aglet (double yawn)
[i] cheekyget - Member
Hercules middle name is reg dwight!,...lol[/i]
That's two names!
The opposite of disgruntled is not gruntled
the opposite of flashing is occulting
in coin terminology, the opposite of reverse is obverse
There is one football team in Britain (maybe the whole world)whose name is mentioned in the bible
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, was just called "Star Wars" when it came out - they added the rest when they were making Empire Strikes Back.
George Lucas has said that he wrote this huge multi-generational story in the mid 70's but thought chapter 4 was the most complete so many the first film based on that - but he was lying.
There is one football team in Britain (maybe the whole world)whose name is mentioned in the bible
I've always though Charlton Heston was quite athletic. Do I win Five pounds?
Every place I visited (in UK) MUST serve fish and chips, otherwise it's a dump. Fact! 😆
When required to do so, I use a Rotring 800 l, 0.5mm.
There is one football team in Britain (maybe the whole world)whose name is mentioned in the bible
It's either Stoke or Dagenham & Redbridge