Useless information…

…From last weeks news.
1. The London borough of Westminster has an average of 20 pieces of chewing gum for every square metre of pavement.

2. Spectator editor Boris Johnson MP admits that he once drove at 160mph down the M40.

3. 20 May is proving to be a popular date for Dutch couples to get married, officials report. It’s thought to be because 20 05 2005 is an easy anniversary to remember.

4. The floor that John Travolta danced on in Saturday Night Fever is still intact. The New York club where it has been since the film was made in 1977 is to be redeveloped, so the floor is being auctioned on eBay.

5. Crows and jays have the highest IQ among birds.

6. Cruz, the name of the Beckhams’ new son, is not so unusual – there are 19 listed on the UK electoral roll.

7. The character Duke in the cartoon strip Doonesbury was modelled on Hunter S Thompson, who wasn’t too thrilled about it. “You don’t really think of making it in America as being a cartoon character,” he said in an interview in the early 1980s.

8. The Rank Group, which has just shed the last vestiges of its film interests, once merged to become Rank/Castle Rock/Turner films, known in the trade as RCRT films.

9. If all the Smarties eaten in one year were laid end to end it would equal almost 63,380 miles, more than two-and-a-half times around the Earth’s equator.

10. Bosses at Madame Tussauds spent £10,000 separating the models of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, who recently separated. It was the first time the museum had two people’s waxworks joined together.

Consider yourselves informed.

Flood