There is a very active joke thread in the off-topic forum but no thread of useless but interesting facts. So I thought I might try and start one. Please feel free to add your facts on the end but please dont just copy/paste the email that you got forwarded at work today as we all probably got it today at work as well....

Perhaps one fact per post might be a good rule of thumb...

Anyway gents your starter for ten is this:

Chinese is the most spoken language in the world. English is the third most spoken language, having 350, 000,000 people calling it their native tongue. 115 countries use it as their official language.

The fourth most spoken language in the world is Bengali, which is spoken by some 189,000,000 people.

It is the official language of only one country.