Numbers! What are they? Where do they come from? What are they for? Nobody knows. Nobody even cares.
And yet... without numbers where would we be? There would be no numbered lists for one thing - and no telephone numbers! Plus we'd have to call our "number 2s" something else... like "choccingtons" or "B is for browns".
Here are ten amazing facts you never knew about the first ten numbers - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10 and 9.
And yet... without numbers where would we be? There would be no numbered lists for one thing - and no telephone numbers! Plus we'd have to call our "number 2s" something else... like "choccingtons" or "B is for browns".
Here are ten amazing facts you never knew about the first ten numbers - 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10 and 9.
10. TEN
Number ten is the only one of the first ten numbers that looks like two other numbers side by side - specifically numbers 1 and 0, or "zero"... which is another word for "nothing". Appropriately, there is "nothing" else we know about the number 10.
9. NINE
Number nine is the only one of the first ten numbers which rhymes with wine. Wine is a type of drink enjoyed by alcoholics, particularly middle class ones. It also sounds like the German word for "no" - so keep that in mind if you ever ask a German alcoholic how many times he'd like you to kick him in the chest, and he slurs "nein" in return.
8. EIGHT
Number 8 sounds like "ate". We don't know whether that has anything to do with the offensive bingo call "Two Fat Ladies - eighty eight", but... probably yeah. Other well known, politically incorrect, bingo shouts include "Two slender homosexuals cottaging in a lavatory - it's gay eleven", and "It's number ten: the house in which John Christie murdered at least eight women - Ten Rillington Place".
7. SEVEN
Number 7 is considered by some to be the luckiest number. However, try telling that to Fartidge P'Tarmigan, from Ohio, who was born on 7/7/1907. On Fartridge's seventeenth birthday he was stung by seven wasps, bitten by seven seventy-seven year-old men, and struck by lightning twice on the anus.
6. SIX
The number six is the cheekiest number, because it sounds a bit like the word sex, which is short for "sexy". Being sexy is a special type of cuddling which makes a disgusting baby grow in a mummy's tummy.
5. FIVE
As you can see from the above image, the number five is the only number that appears in nature - imprinted on the skin of an orange lemon.
4. FOUR
Number four is the fourth smallest number, unless you're trying to be clever, and count the number zero, or negative numbers. "Four" is also the word for the hair that some animals have covering their skin. They should just call it hair.
3. THREE
Everybody knows what a number one and a number two are, when talking about lavatory matters, but most of us have never had a number three. In fact, there are only 24 recorded incidents of one ever happening. A number three was most recently documented in the Swedish town of Uppsala, in December 2013, courtesy of local cooper Gustav Olson. Subsequently, the town was evacuated, and Christmas cancelled.
2. TWO
COOL NUMBER FAXXXX: Number two is the only number that looks like a swan, or the top bit of a coat hanger.
1. ONE
The number one is the first number of the alphabet, and first number that was ever invented. It was the brainchild of Spanish mathematician Juan One, who needed a method of counting the number of testicles he had remaining, following an accident with a trough of gunpowder.
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