In Competition No. 2374 you were invited to supply ten pieces of useless information to clutter our minds.
For those with an appetite for loony facts Noel Botham’s The World’s Greatest Book of Useless Information (John Blake) can be prescribed in small doses. Your efforts amused me vastly, but presented me with a judging problem. Some items were funnier than others, so should I award prize money by item, or plump for those whose ten contained the most gold? I chose the latter, and easier, course. The winners, printed below, get £25 each, and the last bonus prize of Cobra Premium beer (for our spell of sponsorship is over) goes to Michael Swan. If anyone has still not received their Cobra prize, please write to Claire Eaves at The Spectator.
In 1703 a shower of sea-urchins fell on Banbury.
The potto can distinguish 423 colours.
There is an Inuit word meaning ‘My house has not been destroyed by termites’.
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