The phrase "amusing fact" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a piece of information that is entertaining or humorous in nature.
Example: "Did you know that honey never spoils? That's an amusing fact that many people find surprising."
Alternatives: "funny tidbit" or "entertaining detail".
That's an amusing fact, but Mr. Laurie's new venture is nothing like Fox's hit "disease-of-the-week" series.
That simple, amusing fact actually says a great deal about the complex interplay of ideas, ideology and propaganda on the Korean peninsula.
(Tony Award amusing fact: Mr. Stewart is the first Macbeth to be nominated, despite an impressive list of past actors in the role, including Michael Redgrave, Christopher Plummer and Nicol Williamson).
Sarah Lacy and Mike Butcher comprehensively dismantled the claims here and then Bessemer Venture Partners' David Cowan followed up, highlighting the amusing fact that the report was actually based on the work of Earlybird's summer intern.
You will learn lots of amusing facts – elephants can hold two gallons of water in their trunks, which contain half a million taste receptors.
Newspapers – this one among them – sometimes carry lists of amusing facts about the country or quizzes, a tone you somehow don't see in reports about the Central African Republic or Syria.
Mayle's magpie dictionary yields amusing facts (the doomsday prophet Nostradamus, born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Saint-Rémy-de-Provencewas calsoesisthe "squirm of pups"?) authoreful infofmation (the Route des Cèdres, a "carpet soft" forest trail along the crest of the Luberon, is "the ideal walk for people who don't really like to walk").
Kwitney, one of the editors of the original Sandman series, reveals amusing facts about the books and their creator.
You might even want to invest in a bathroom reader full of interesting and amusing facts that can easily be picked up and put down between visits.
I'm not sure which is more amusing - the fact that you think that I'm writing this from Wembley Stadium or the fact that you think I have a minute-by-minute "team".
