- Actor Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen, Nighty Night, Fear of Fanny) wrote two of my favourite Doctor Who episodes (The Idiot’s Lantern and The Unquiet Dead)
- The hymn Amazing Grace was written by a reformed slave trader.
- All major operating systems ship with the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard in addition to the standard QWERTY layout.
- Peter Jackson is producing Dambusters, a remake of the 1954 film The Dam Busters. It is still unknown whether Nigger the dog will be renamed for political correctness.
- For a glass of wine to correspond to one unit of alcohol, the glass must hold 125ml and the wine 8% proof. Pubs usually serve 160ml glasses of 11 to 13% proof wine, totalling two units. How to calculate alcohol units in your drink: multiply the volume in ml by the ABV (alcohol by volume) and divide by 1000. For example, a 25ml shot of 40% vodka contains 25 times 40 divided by 1000 = 1 alcohol unit.
- Japanese nouns do not have a plural form but require a complex system of counters. Counters are also used in English for uncountable nouns, when you say ‘three pats of butter’ or ‘two cups of water’.
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming.
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