Friday Factoids #1 in a series of more than one

November 4, 2005 by
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As well as the new “Top Ten Tuesday“, I thought I’d start “Friday Factoids” – somewhere I can dump useless snippets of facts (or fact-like substances).

I guess you can blame Peter Cook (or rather E.L. Wisty) because I was listening to the “Do you want to know an interesting fact?” sketch earlier.

So, do you want to know an interesting factoid? Good; did you know that the correct term for something shaped like the letter H is zygal?

Or that “parachute” is from the French for “fall-preventing”?

OK, one more for good measure: did you know that the Queen sent her first email in 1976?

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