Utterly useless
The founder of Kodak, George Eastman, made up the unusual company name becase he wanted to be sure it was unique. He commited suicide at the age of 72 leaving the note, "To my friends, My work is done--, Why wait?".

"Skiing" is the only word in the English language containing a double "i".

Gorillas cannot swim.

The elephant is the only animal with four knees (with the cartoon exception of Dennis The Menace's dog Gnasher).

Before playing for Manchester United, David Beckham played on loan for one season for Preston North End.

While John O' Groats is generally accepted as the place to travel to from Lands' End, it is not the most northern part of mainland UK. That honour belongs to Dunnet Head to the west.

The Norfolk Broads are largely man-made, the results of hundreds of years of digging peat for fuel.

The 1471 service in the UK was in use for much longer than advertised. It was originally used to identify prank or obscene callers after the matter had been referred to the police.

A research project for BT several years ago looked into the possibility of the telephone network achieving artificial intelligence due to the number of distributed nodes and the introduction of computerised switches. The conclusion of the report can be summarised as, "not yet".
( S tr app y, Sun 20 Mar 2005, 10:42, Reply)