The only other animals besides humans to have a language capacity that goes beyond describing the here and now are honeybees.

There are 2.4 billion items of unworn clothing in British wardrobes.

Elephants live 1/3 to 1/2 as long in zoos as they do in the wild.

Aldous Huxley's grandfather, Thomas Huxley, coined the term 'agnostic'.

Brighton marina is the largest in Europe.

Box tunnel, on the Bristol to London rail route was, for a time, the longest rail tunnel in the world, at 2937m long. It was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel so that the sun would shine right through it on only one day - his birthday (15th April).