Friday 25 September 2009


When Roger Federer first won Wimbledon in 2003 he was so excited he suffered a “bathroom problem”.

The liver is the first organ formed in a human embryo.

1989 there were secret negotiations to merge McDonalds & Coca Cola.

In poker the commonest form of cheating is keeping hold of a card after a hand – it’s called “Holding your own”.

Men are 27% more likely to swear or blaspheme in church.

Michelle Obama worked as a researcher for Tony Blair for 6 months when he was first elected.

Noon is by definition 12:00 at GMT so that noon in the New York is actually at 7.00am.

An inhabitant of Seattle is called a Satellite (not Seattleites as sometimes misreported).

“Windings” is the longest homonym in any language – a word that with one spelling has more than one pronunciation and more than one meaning.

The first text messages were sent over 100 years ago by Cecil Brown using a complicated system of radio transmissions and images.

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