Random Factoids About...Random Stuff

A little light entertainment:

• The longest (common) word that can be typed on the top row of a typewriter is ‘typewriter’.

• Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

• The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

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• St Johns Wood is the only Underground station to share no letters with the word ‘mackerel’.

• Donkeys kill more people each year than plane crashes.

• Hull City is the only football league team whose name you can’t colour in with a biro.

• It is possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.

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• The name of every continent ends with the same letter with which it begins.

• All American presidents have worn glasses, although not all have done so in public.

• The theme tune to Some Mothers Do Ave Em is Some Mothers Do Ave Em in Morse Code.

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