Word of the day: FRIENDORPHOBIA - the fear of forgetting a password.

When Danes pose for photos, they say ‘orange’, the Chinese say ‘aubergine’ and the Germans say ‘ant shit’.

The International Space Station travels at five miles a second.

The first-ever edition of the Daily Mirror came with a free mirror.

Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years, to the day, after Galileo died

In 2013, nine babies born in the UK were named Cheese.

7-Up was originally called ‘Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda’.

The chairman of a company is four times more likely to be a psychopath than the doorman.

British fishermen work 17 times harder than they did in the 1880s, to catch the same number of fish.

In Sweden, a Chinese burn is known as the ‘thousand-needle prank’.

The first choice of a name for Disney’s Hannah Montana was Alexis Texas, but it was already taken by a porn star.

Because chickens were known as cacklers in the 18^th century, eggs were called cackling farts. 

Hellenologophobia is the fear of Greek terms.

One third of all the salt produced in the US is used to melt ice on roads.

In the 1930s, British women working for Directory Enquiries were required to be at least 5 feet 3 inches tall, so they could reach the top of the switchboard.

By law, buskers in Dublin must have a repertoire of at least 20 songs.