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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!