Useless facts

The major airport that serves Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) in India is called Dumdum Airport.

Very impressive, David!  When I think of WD 40 I also think of that other essential toolbox item - duct tape, or as many refer to it - duck tape, lol.  I pulled this little know useless fact off Wikipedia:

Duck Products annually sponsors a competition that offers a college scholarship to the person who creates the most stylish prom formal wear made from duck tape. The number of uses to which duct tape can be put is a source of humor (many of these are collected in books by "The Duck Tape Guys"). One of Duck Products previous competitions was for vehicles covered in duct tape called "Stuck in Traffic". Entries included rabbits, a castle, a van decorated as Van Gogh's Starry Night (titled VanGo), and won by a truck called the Dragonracer - a half dragon, half two-toned race car.

THE FULL MONTY.

Some years ago was a Gentlemans Outfitter named Montague Burton "Burton's) You could purchase just trousers or if in the money a complete suit with waistcoat, hence  THE FULL MONTY.

Welcome to POE, Lee.  I'd always wondered about that name - thanks!  When we were over there, we bought a can of stuff called The Full Monty.  It had all the ingredients of the full English breakfast, apart from the eggs - beans, tomatoes, sausage - and I wondered if the film was named after this canned stuff, or the other way around.  lol

A googol (pronounced google) is one with a hundred zeroes after it.

Hi Lee and welcome as Ruth says, but why not introduce yourelf in the 'User Introductions' where you can tell us a bit about yourself and get the POE welcome from the members.

By the way: London's Underground Network is more than 50% above ground!

Here is an interesting tidbit; I am not sure if it's true but I just heard it myself and thought it interesting:

The custom of driving on the left or right side of the road varies from country to country, and its origins predate the invention of the automobile. During the 1700s, in England, horse-drawn coaches were the main mode of transportation for urban dwellers. British coachmen used to sit on a seat on the right side of the carriage. If the coach traveled down the right side of the road, the coachman's whip would have struck pedestrians strolling along the adjacent sidewalk. By keeping to the left, the coachman had room to use his whip and the pedestrians were safe. The coach drivers could just as easily have sat on the left side and driven on the right, but that is not the way it turned out.