I didnt know Stephen fry was gay
Just thought he was super posh
must be joking?
Here's some randoms off the top of my headRichard Gere's middle name is Tiffany
The highest mountain is actually below sea level.
To be considered 'literate' in mandarin, you need to know between 3-5k characters, however over 30k exist in 'common' usage.
One of the first FOI requests for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was genuinely "how much ferrero roche do you buy worldwide each year using taxpayers money"
(that was well spent tax payers money finding out.... #wpsir)
There is one episode of "Only Fools and Horses" where the van doesn't say 'Trotters independent trading' - instead it says 'Trotters international trading'.
There are two landlocked by landlocked countries in the world - Uzbekistan and Lichtenstein.
The Caspian Sea, is a lake.
Vietnamese has 14 different tones for most words
Mandarin has 4 tones
(im remembering this from a while back, might be a little sketchy on exact details, but the theory is correct - apparently)
Theoretically you could travel forward in time... if you could create a train that could travel around the world 17 times /minute then over '10 years' on the train for you, it would actually have been 100 years in the outside world. - or something...
too tired, going to bed.