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‘Forty’ is the only number in English that has its letters in alphabetical order.

There are more pigs in China than in the next 43 pork-producing countries combined.

A jackstraw is a 16th-century word for a person of no substance or worth.

If you say the letters S.O.C.K.S aloud in English, you will find yourself pronouncing the Spanish for ‘it is what it is’ almost perfectly.

During the 2010 World Cup, 100 bar staff at the pub chain Clover Taverns changed their names to Wayne Rooney. The company has since gone bankrupt.

A special bastard is someone born out of wedlock whose parents later married.

No male jaguar has ever successfully mated with a female tiger; if it were to happen, the resulting animal would be known as a ‘jagger’.