Just a few to titilate you..

The odds of hitting a jackpot on a slot machine is 889 to 1.

The Amazon river flows 12 times that of the Mississippi and the Amazon carries as much water in a single day as flows down the river Thames in London in 1 year.

A 'hairsbreath' is actually 1/48th of an inch.

The oldest city in Britain is Ripon, which received its original charter in 886.

If you add all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively i.e.(1+2+3+4+5+6) ect. The total would be 5050

When two or more words are combined to make a new word eg, MOTOR & HOTEL = MOTEL, or BREAKFAST & LUNCH = BRUNCH, the new word is called a Portmanteau.

There is only one word in the English language with only 1 vowel that appears 6 times. INDIVISIBILITY.

FACETIOUS  and  ABSTEMIOUS are the only 2 words that contain all the 5 vowels in the correct order..

Underground is the only word that begins and ends with UND.

Dreamt is the only word that ends in MT.

There are only 4 words in the English language that end in 'dous'  Tremendous, Horrendous, Stupendous, and Hazardous.

The longest non technical word in the English language is ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTERIANISM.

Canada is a Native American Indian word meaning "Big Village".

Until 1965, driving was done in Sweden on the Left hand side of the road. They changed it to the Right hand side on a weekday at 5pm. All traffic was stopped and people changed lanes. It was decided to do it at this time, so that people wouldn't get out of bed in a morning and in a sleepy state, forget that this was "the changeover day".

Cinderella's slipper was originally supposed to be FUR. It was changed to GLASS in the 1600 by a translator.

If you are in a completely sealed room, you will die from carbon dioxide poisioning, before you died from lack of Oxygen.

Frogs can be frozen solid and thawed out and continue to live.

Since 1896, the beginning of the Modern Olympics, Only Greece and Australia have never missed a games. Great Britain competed in the 1980 games, but under the Olympic flag as GB were boycotting the games.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike Sponsorship, than all the Nike Factory workers in Malaysia combined.

A ducks quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.

The letters 'UGH' can be pronounced 9 different ways. The following sentence contains them all.
   "A rough-coated, tough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough, after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

The word Pound is abbreviated to lb after the constellation 'libra', because it means pound in Latin.
The abbreviation for for British Pound symbol £ is from the same source. It is an L for 'libra' and a stroke through it to signify its an abbreviation.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib, but if you surpress a sneeze, you could rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and potentially kill yourself.

There are on average 178 seeds on a Big Mac bun.

10% of Russia's income comes from Vodka.

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy on average, than all the worlds nuclear weopons combined.

There are 336 dimples on every golf ball.