The word Hello was created by a competition in the New York Times, as the word used to answer a telephone call, instead of Ahoy!

In Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants mainly speak in Pidgin English. In Pidgin English, Prince Charles is rendered as Number 1 pickaninny belong Mrs. Queen. A male contraceptive is known as gummy belong cock. A helicopter is known as a Magimix belong Jesus.

Two-thirds of the world's lawyers live in the United States, American children get $65 billion of pocket money per year, there are 15,000 practising vampires in America, most of them living in Seattle, 10,113 virgins insured themselves from giving birth to the Messiah at the millennium and Americans are twice as likely to die from liposuction than in a car crash.