The Serious Page (Updated monthly)

• Two women in Russia and one in the United States can distinguish colours with their fingertips.

• FLOCCIPAUCINIHILIPILIFATION is the 'action of estimating as worthless'!

• A decapitated insect can live for as long as a year before it starves to death for the lack of a mouth.

• The world is comparatively smoother than a snooker ball. However, if it were completely smooth, it would be totally covered in sea to a depth of 3.2Km.

• A van driver married four wives in his seven-year career as a bigamist. Three of them were called Irene.