Things We Didn't Know - I Want One Of Those

Thanks to those of you who have so kindly kept us all informed with so many utterly ridiculous, and yet occasionally enlightening "Things We Didn't Know". It is your dedication to the absurd that keeps us all sane, or at least close to it on occasion.

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The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan." There was never a recorded Wendy before. (:
Amy , Halesowen

Statistically the TWDK list suggests too many David's have too much time on their hands.
David, Haddenham, Aylesbury

Every clam is born female. About half way through their lives, a few "decide" to be male.
Adam, Leeds

You (all most certainly) have more than the average number of legs! No one has more than 2 legs, but some people do have less. therefore the average number is something slightly less than two.
Barry, woking, surrey

The first town in England to receive Natural Gas was Cranleigh in Surrey. I was there.
Virginia, Coulsdon, Surrey

Statues of mounted warriors - if both the horse's front feet are off the ground, the rider died in the battlefield; if one hoof is off the ground, the rider died later of his injuries sustained in battle, and if both feet are on the ground, the rider died of natural causes.
NJS, Bromley

did you know that the word SHIT stands for 'Store High In Transit' harping back to the days when Guano was transported as a commodity via sailing ships from tropical islands, the dried pooh had to be stored above the water line in the holds as if it came into contact with the sea water it was not only liable to spoil and hence be worth nowt it also tended to react quite badly and blow up - making it a shitty day for the sailors
Debs, Little Sutton

On a Boeing 757 airplane there is a product warning saying Fragile: DO NOT DROP
andrew, brentwood

Some turtles can breathe through their bums!
Lauren, Folkestone, Kent

If your tongue gets stuck to a frozen lamp post, you can escape by urinating on it.
Rick, Sheffield

Red meat will not kill you. But green fuzzy meat can make you wish you were dead.
NJS, Bromley

The phrase "you're pulling my leg" derives from centuries ago, when, if someone was hanged for committing a crime, family members would pull the hanged persons legs to help them die more quickly!
Gareth, Cardiff

Heaven 17 were named after a band mentioned in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
Barry, Frimley, Surrey

James Bonds preferred sidearm was the Beretta 418 not the Walther PPK
Andrew, Dublin, Ireland

In China, the fifth most famous American is Paula Abdul, due to there being an all-American-Idol channel on their basic cable package.
Mel, Harrogate

Most of the 'facts' on here are just made up. That's probably the only true thing on here so far!
Ross, Malvern

If you eat nothing but rabbit you will die of malnutrition, because it has no nutritional value.
megan, Long Lawford

Putting an unstuck match between your lips when chopping an onion stops your eyes watering!
Lynette F

A little known fact.... The first testicular guard "Cup" was used in Hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in 1974. It took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.
Diane H

If marble hasn't been carved within 7 years of being taken from the ground - it becomes too brittle to work.
Doug M

England didn't invent the idea of the discount on a new car if your old one is older than 10 years; they borrowed the idea from Germany.
Ryan A

Did you know that when polar bears hunt, they cover their noses as it's the only part of it that has color and they can become almost invisible to catch their prey.
Alana Paterson, Aberdeen

Many animals engage in deception, or deliberately misleading another, but only humans are wired to deceive both themselves and others.
Qian Hui, Surrey

Some of the items people find under roller coasters besides wallets, change, and keys are glass eyes, fake legs, brassieres and false teeth.
Lynn M

fish don't have any eyelids, and also cannot regulate their body temperature to maintain their immune system, which is why some fish are cold water and some fish are tropical :)
vanessa, nottingham

Eating an apple a day can cause bruising!
Ysanne J

Babies don't have kneecaps when they are born
David F

If a bee fell into an empty jamjar it would never be able to escape by its own means, it will just go round and round the bottom of the jar for ever looking for a way out untill it dies
billy, runcorn

The reason the financial year starts on the day it does is to do with the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar back in 1752
Dionne N

more people are killed by cocconuts than shark attacks
chris W

The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.
Katie M

The duck-billed platypus is the world's only venomous furred animal. All platypuses are born with spurs on their hind feet. The spurs on the female fall off after the first year. The spurs on males become venomous during the breeding season.
Grant, Harrow

The humber bridge is 2200 metres long
Andrew T

Snails' bodies produce a thick slime. Because of this slime, they can crawl across the edge of a razor and not get hurt.
Andy B

the Armadilo is the only animal other than humans which can catch leprosy.
Ruth T

Humpty Dumpty and the nursery rhyme actually came about from a king of England, Richard III who was apparently a little on the plump side!
Simon P

Up until very recently (blame the financial crisis!), English billions and American billions were actually different amounts. In America it was a thousand million, and in England was a million million. But most people in th UK use the American version now.
Hannah W

You can't whistle whilst eating Jelly.
Phil G

Female sealions can delay pregnancy (implantation) by several months
Chris M

Uhura in the new film has been given a first name Nyota in the original series she was just known as Uhura.
Tamsyn J

The United States would fit into the continent of Africa three and a half times.
Mark A

you can get rid of sea urchin spikes (which are poisonous) by strapping papaya skin to it overnight... it draws it out and dissolves it.
Neil W

Did you know I still buy stuff from your site after 4 years ! And I can safely say you have no idea how much I love tem gadgets!
Diana N

A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground
Helen M

there's the same amount of caffeine in a shot of espresso as there is in a cup of filter coffee.
Kristine B

Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension :)
Karl H

the Earth's population will reach 7 Billion by 2012
Diana V

The technical term for eating your own snot is "mucophagy"
Christopher S

Dogs cant bark and run at the same time
Alex A

Husky sledging sounds great, until you realise they don't stop to pee, poo or fart!
Richard Foxton, Ilfracombe

One billion seconds is roughly 32 years
Alice T

When jumping into water with flippers on separate your legs one in front of the other, then as you hit the water swap them, it'll stop your head from going under!
Angela R

The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
Mathew W

FaceBook has more than 24 million photos uploaded daily
fiona W

Nocturnal is to be awake during the night. But Dyurnal iss an animal that is awake during the day and sleeps at night.
Lee B

The hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backwards
Simon H

If an Octopus gets so angry it will eat it's self!
Michael G, Somerton

The foraminifera can expand their over all body surface to three times their size, to absorb oxygen from low oxygenated waters
Johan, Llandudno

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill
Louise S

Some wallabies have "bifid" penises! i.e. they split into two at the end.
James E

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia is the fear of long words
James D

The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
Tracey C

Jelly Belly, make vomit and ear wax flavored jelly beans !
Carl, Brisbane

96% OF ALL AMERICAN PAPER MONEY HAS TRACES OF COCAINE ON IT!
kim B

In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.
Kim H

David Caruso's younger sister, Joyce Caruso, produces Fox News in New York.
Geoff D

A starfish can eat more than it's body weight by pushing some of its stomach outside its body.
Elaine M

The average UK woman spends two years of her life gazing in the mirror
Avis R

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Adele B

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,"uses every letter in the alphabet.
Jake Q, Flaxley

When a piglet is happily suckling it is said to be `Gruntled`. Take the piglet away from the teat and thats where the word `Disgruntled` comes from.
Justin W

You are more likely to get hit by lightning than get killed in a plane crash!!
Lucy H

Outside the USA, Ireland is the largest software producing country in the world!
Mark B

If you feed a seagull bicarbonate of soda, they will blow up. This is because seagulls cannot fart.
Alexandra, Whittle le Woods

the origin of the word sabotage is from when French factory workers were being replaced with machines. They threw their shoes (knows as Saboes) into the machines to break them.
James M

An octups can squeeze through a hole the size of a 10 pence piece
Melanie H

there is only ONE atm in afghanistan. The queue must be mental on a saturday night.
Greg D

If you pick a guinea pig up by its tail, its eyes will pop out with the shock of it all- they don't have tails you see...
Siobhan P

When two hippos are about to fight, they point their anuses at each other, wag their stubby little tails vigorously, and flick faeces at each other.
Lisa P

The very first radio broadcast happened on Christmas Eve 1906 and was made by Reginald Fessenden.
Hazel S

Potato starch is worse for your teeth than sugar, because it takes longer to dissolve in your saliva and rots teeth just as badly!
Tina U

Really, it was just a great affirmation to win that competition, ... On Saint Patrick's Day in 1978, U2 won a talent show in Limerick, Ireland. .... it was confirmed that U2 signed a 12 year deal with Live Nation worth an estimated $100 ...
William George H

In a lot of ways, the heyday of FM radio in the late ?60s and early to mid-?70s was an anomaly as it pretty much flew under the radar catering to rock fans with often eclectic tastes. It is only when people realized that this audience actually had income to spend did advertisers and big business get involved and the audience was looked at less as a consumer of programming to consumers of products. Like the major record labels who feed the commercial radio machine, the whole point of commercial radio these days is the ?commercial? part and not the ?radio? part. One point that makes podcasters like myself smile is the encouraging fact that ?85 percent of teenagers now discover new music through sources beyond the FM dial.? With the growth of Internet radio in general and podcasting in particular, music fans now have a place to go where music actually matters. As commercial rock radio fumbles for a new identity and audience they are just now realizing that, unlike years past, music fans have actual alternatives these days. Unsigned Indie artists and bands may not have a completely level playing field, but it is a start. One point that makes podcasters like myself smile is the encouraging fact that ?85 percent of teenagers now discover new music through sources beyond the FM dial.? With the growth of Internet radio in general and podcasting in particular, music fans now have a place to go where music actually matters. As commercial rock radio fumbles for a new identity and audience they are just now realizing that, unlike years past, music fans have actual alternatives these days. Unsigned Indie artists and bands may not have a completely level playing field, but it is a start.
William George H

Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words, none of which containing the letter "E".
Natalie C

A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon
Tom T

Using peanut butter, on noodles, as a substitute for satay sauce doesn't quite work ...
Frances L

My office are now all secret IWOOT fans. Average age is 50 but real age is 17!
cathy F

On average, a person produces about half a litre of fart gas per day, distributed over an average of about fourteen daily farts.
Ian S

sloane square is the only part of the district line that goes under a river
Michela H

If you let your wet cat sleep on your snooker table he will turn green
Alison E

Child choking on an ice cube? Simply pour boiling water down its throat to quickly and easily remove the blockage.
James T

Radio one was the BBC answer to Radio Carolin it was the start of pop radio.
Steven S

Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma Gate is the shortest street with the longest name in York
Barbara B

A cow doesn't have four stomachs as is commonly believed but in fact has one, with four chambers
Christine B

The pirate radio station in Harry Potter and the Deasthly Hallows was called Potterwatch
Jill J

Simon Dee was NOT the first voice on Radio Caroline, but was Chris Moore.
MARK K

The thing about the daddy long legs being the most venomous creature is purely an internet fabrication.
Alex A

A group of birds of a certain genus (that will become apparent) when travelling together looking for food/nesting sites etc is called a 'Roaming Tit Band'.
Rachel S

Baking soda and vinegar will make your scrambled eggs fluffier
Scott W

Goats can see the wind.
nicholas B

If humans hadn't evolved to walk on two legs, babies would spend longer in the womb.
Amy B

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple
Alexa G

Winters in Reykjavik are actually warmer than in New York! Although Iceland borders the Arctic Circle, warm waters from the Gulf Stream travel around the island providing surprisingly mild climates all year round.
Sandra M

The average human body consists of (10,000,000,000,000 or about ten trillion) cells
Mark G

3 is the new 5
Derrick S

Glass is a liquid that never competly sets/dries, any old houses windows are thicker at the bottom and thinner and weaker at the top and middle...
B, Ireland

Semen shoots out at 28mph apparently ... don't ask me how that was measured
Burak Sezgin, St Albans

With just over 280,000 residents Iceland is the least populated of all European countries. Just over half of those people live in the capital city of Reykjavik.
Catherine D

Welsh is the only language in Europe, spoken before the Romans, during the Romans...and after the Romans!
anne O

poppadoms are designed to mop up the grease in your mouth after a curry
Heather G

amethyst is apprently a gem that stops you getting drunk
Rebecca J

3 apples a day lower cholesterol!
John H

parasites live on your eyelashes
Rebecca J

did you know the time between each dong from big ben is 5 seconds!
jennifer B

there are over 40,000 muscles in an elephants trunk!
dianah C

If colouring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
kathy C

Arnica helps the body to heal from injury and reduce swelling
Dan C

I want a device that screams 'diesel, diesel, diesel' when I open my fuel cap so I don't put the wrong fuel in
Wendy A

Black ink is actually very, very, very dark GREEN ink.
Ced Y

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do. If you're ambidextrous do you split the difference
angelo, lisburn

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes
angelo, lisburn

The Amazon is the longest river in the world
Nicola P

Iceland is considered to be a part of Europe, not of North America, though geologically the island belongs to both continents
andy M

Luke Skywalker was origally Luke Starkiller but was changed on first day of filming.
Jill J

The first KFC in the UK was in Preston, Lancs
Andrew P

Never put off till tomorow what you can do today. 'Cos if you do it today and you like it you can do it again tomorrow
Andy H

Icelanders eat Smoked Puffin
Penny S

stoke city football club used to be owned by an icelandic consortium
trevor P

It's illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there's a law against selling dolls without human faces
Maria D

The latin name for beetroot is Beta vulgaris
Geoff D

In the state of Kentucky the law states that every citizen must have a bath at least once a year!
moira M

the word pizzle means a bull's penis (usually made into a whip)
jon R

glass is a liquid!
David C

Human tonsils can bounce higher than a rubber ball of similar weight and size, but only for the first 30 minutes after they've been removed.
amy S

You weigh less at the top of a mountain than at sea level
Lyndsay R

You cannot see any man made object from the moon.
Nick S

As the majority of the planet is covered in water, diving is something that everyone, who loves their planet, should take up
jonathan P

the power of the mind is stronger than the power heart.
charlotte D

The M25 is shorter anti-clockwise than clockwise !
FREDA K

It is possible to become so fat you can actually become bulletproof
Sailesh P

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Samantha S

The toothbrush was invented in 1498
Philip C

there are no green mammals (on earth...)
Jennie R

A woodpeckers tongue is 2/3 the length of its body
Jennie R

If you blow bubbles when it's below freezing you can get frozen bubbles - but you need to blow them upwards (or blow them from an upstairs window) so they have time to freeze before they hit the ground.
Hazel R

Most wild animals kept in captivity only live half their natural lifespan
KIM A

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Lisa D

Barry Nelson was the first actor to play James Bond on radio
Simon H

Legend has it that the Manx Cat lost it's tail when the doors of Noah's Ark cut it off
Simon H

The pressure on Venus is 92 times the Earth's.
Shaun A

Tigers turn into commited and persistant 'maneaters' once they have killed their first human because they like the salty taste that the human diet gives to our flesh.
david, leicester

A fly, after landing will always "take off" going backwards. thats why its easier to swat at a fly from behind
Rachel, lewisville

In 2003, 1 in 3 Toys given to a child in America were from McDonalds.
Olivia W

Kawaii is Japanese for "Cute"
Olivia W

Every Year WHSmiths sells enough paper to write a letter to everyone on earth.
Olivia W

40% of people here in the UK can't write. 50% cant read and the other 75% cant add up.
shane Garet, sutton

Frost2050 said "if the space between the nucleus and the electrons of every atom was taken out, the whole universe would fit into 1cm cubed" ...but if that is where the universe is where would all these spaces have gone?
Cameron, Dundee

A female horse is the only animal with a hymen
Tracy P

we really enjoyed your compo - great fun and a brilliant way to learn your product range. good for you. merry xmas
katrina H

Fingernails don't carry on growing after death, the skin shrinks making them appear longer
Rachel F

Standard Lightbulbs give out approx.90% heat and only 10% light.
Jill J

Nick Park of Wallace & Gromit fame turned down Luke Skywalker actor Mark Hamill when he asked for a part in one of his films
Lynne B

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33.
Claire B

dolphins sleep with one eye open
Peter J

wild cosmos flowers always have eight petals
Rob R

women blink twice as much as men
christine S

It's impossible for kangaroos to fart
James, Milton Keynes

The first people believed to have settled in Iceland were Irish monks.
Paula G

That Wiccans believe in reincarnation rather than heaven and hell.
Abbie P

the 5 gold rings line of 12 days of christmas is copyrighted
Alison F

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
Rob R

The average office worker burns 1,552 calories during a day's work.
Murdo M

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
Grant F, Cardiff

A group of Giraffes are called a Tower
Rosemary Sheppard, Rugby

Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901 by Miller R. Hutchinson
Murdo M

A policeman has to hand over his hat to a pregnant woman to relief herself in it, by law.
Isa, Notts

A whales tongue can weigh the same as an elephant
Ian F

Taekwon-Do means foot hand way in korean
Laura S

80% of the world's rubies come from Burma
John M

my son thinks that the three gifts from the wise men are; gold, myrrrh and "frank sent this"
katrina H

A cat is more likely to survive a 30 foot drop then it is a 3 foot drop! FACT!
Tom, HULL

80% of kids didn't know that animals produce milk it just appears in the supermarkets
Dan C

Charles Dickens had a wry sense of humour with the naming of his characters. David Copperfield (David Copafeel), Uriah Heap(Urea Heap) etc.
Kenneth M

a pigs orgasm lasts half an hour ( lucky pig )
katie R

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
Gillian H

If you were given all the presents in the sone 12 days of Christmas you wojld have 364
Joanne W

Q: Where is the Foramen of Vesalius? On the moon? In Indonesia? A side chapel in St Peter's in Vatican City? A: In the skull!
Chris A

Goldeneye was actually Bond author Ian Fleming's Jamaican home .James Bond does not have a house in Jamaica , but does have a flat in Chelsea and a housekeeper called May ( who doesn't appear in the films )
Ben

Doris Day was nominated for her first Academy Award as 'Best Actress of the Year' for her role in "Pillow Talk"
Rob R

Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador's waving cape no matter what color it is -- be it red or neon yellow!
Gillian H

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
Gillian H

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it's there, though!
Gillian H

There is more vitamin C in an onion than there is in a orange.
Michelle H

Ginger has been clinically demonstrated to work twice as well as dramamine for fighting motion sickness, with no side effects.
Johan S

In 1760, the College of Physicians and Faculty of Divinity in Paris classified the beaver as a fish because of its scaly tail.
Willow J

Most believe alcohol kills braincells, but it actually only stops the small electric connections between them, which we develop when we learn.
Andrew F

Did you know... The only country in the world beginning with O is Oman, a middle eastern country.
Sophie H

if you liquidise a sponge (the animal not bathroom variety) it will regeneragte into a complete sponge again. however if you put 4 different species of sponge in a blender and pour it out onto a table, within a day it will have separated into individual species and reformed into the original 4 sponges.
Daniel, birmingham

Champagne shouldnt be fizzy. it is only fizzy because of chemicals in the wine reacting with tiny specs of dirt on the glass (called neucleation sites) giving off Co2. so next time you order some champagne and its fizzy you can complain that its proof that the glass is filthy.
Daniel, birmingham

Did you know... that all 13 of the minerals and vitamins that a human needs to survive can be found in alcohol...?
Sophie H

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing
Gemma B

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
Murdo M

the first umbrellas or parasols, were first designed to provide shade,"umbrella" comes from the Latin root word "umbra", meaning shade or shadow
Rob R

?Formicophilia? is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.
Kelly M

Baby robins eat 14 feet of earthworms every day!
Gillian H

In 1848, Niagara Falls had a break of half an hour because of an ice jam blocking the source river!
Damien D

Christmas was a holiday thought up by the Pegans
Andrew F

BABY RATS ARE CALLED KITTENS
SARH, UK

x+z-y(38x6)=71
will T

One out of 20 people have an extra rib
Chris S

a 2 year old can destroy a xmas tree in less than 15 secs!
sue G

Cat urine glows under a black-light!
cally, chasetown

it a known fact that every average man thinks of sex every 5 seconds of his life.....and if u only tap your head you loose about 100 brain cells at once....and did you know that when a male rabbit stamps and flicks his feet at the same time he is calling for a female to mate.... ALL FACTS !
amanda-marie w, cardiff

85% of the men who cheat on their wives die while having sex. I don't know if that's true, but is it worth the risk?!
Linda V

the naked mole rat's skin cannot feel pain
Lynne B

I live in Minnesota where we can get Marmite, but it is EXPENSIVE.
Elspeth S

Only approximately 1% of the people in the world have an IQ of 135 or over.
Kenneth M

Although the character of Elmo didn?t debut in Sesame Street until 1984, the Elmo puppet was used regularly as a background Muppet since the early 1970?s
Rob R

In Turkey, Turkey's are called "American Birds"
Lucy, Nottingham

In Athens, Greece, a driver's license can be lifted by the law if the driver is deemed either 'poorly dressed' or 'unbathed'.
amanda D

Cockroaches can live for 9 days after their head has been cut off.
amanda D

The french words for 'love' and 'death' sound remarkably similar: l'amour and le mort. So watch out.
Lucy, Manchestah

a woman's heart beats faster than a mans
Avis R

Its impossible to fart when your scuba diving below 33 feet under
Alex C

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis is the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary
john, jamestown

When a starfish has an upset tummy, it will spew it up and grow another one in only 3 days..
Kris G

Cherry Tomatos are 100% tomato, 0% cherry. Sadly.
Philip S

The female owls Twit and the Males whoo.
Karen O

Ants have alcohol in their blood, so they are constantly merry.
Allie B

The large intestine in the human has as many neurons as an adult brain and has an intelligence on a par with an insect.
Alan, Clentry

kangaroos suck their wrists instead of sweating
Harry, Cat and Bronwyn, Belper

The chicken is one of the few things that man eats before it's born and after it's dead. Although you knew that.
Linda V

roxy roker, one half of the interracial couple from "the jeffersons" is the mother of lenny kravitz
gabriel, berlin

Grattitude is the sign of noble souls
Tara H

Deux fois deux means 2 x 2
Nicholas F

A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Linda A

milk is a greater pollutant than sewage
William S

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
Murdo M

Your brain uses about as much energy (10 watts) as a bulb on a string of christmas lights.
Sharon D

In 1980, a Las Vegas hospital suspended workers for betting on when patients would die.
Bob N

A worker called Sam Carter died during the building of the Hoover Dam when he was hit by a train on his way to work - FACT!
Catherine X

?Formicophilia? is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.
Kelly M

cats have 18 claws, not 20.
s M

You know that some octopues have 3 hearts ?
Germain N

Henry VIII was not as pretty as JRM when he courted Anne Boleyn!
Angie H

Chameleons are stone deaf
Christopher F

Did you know, that the standard dart board is made from Horse Hair
Mark, Coleraine

humans and dolphins are the only creatures that mate for fun! wooo go us!
Emma, bristol

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors!
Liam N

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself. disgusting I know, sorry
kimberley B

there were actually 10 reindeer ... dancer, prancer, dasher and vixen. cupid, comet, donner and blitzen. and rudolf...but everyone forgets olive..."olive, the other reindeer"
katrina H

cats don't like walking on frosty pavements
Frances L

Gordon Brown is the first British Prime Minister with loss of sight in one eye
Kenneth M

U.S City that consumes the most ketchup per capita: New Orleans
Sharon D

Christmas fact: Mistletoe is actually an apple tree parasite!
Yolanda, Hove

First permanent photograph was taken in the year of 1827 by Joseph Nicephone
Rob R

half a teaspoon of sugar in carnations will help them to last longer
Christine B

A survey by Which? Magazine in 1981 showed that mice prefer chocolate, dried fruit, nuts or lard in their traps to cheese.
Patricia O

?Formicophilia? is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.
Kelly M

Adolf Hitler helped design the VW Beetle
Cath R

In Ancient Greece, if a woman watched even one Olympic event, she was executed
Anthony M

bats always exit left from there cave
James H

"Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand
Sandra G

Jaws is the most common name for a goldfish
Patricia M

Snails grow penises on their heads to have sex.
Ruth M

A 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable
Stephie H

you make lace with 4 bobbins
Mrs M

True, every part of a Yew tree is poisonous, except for the red fleshy part of the berry which tastes sweet. However, be careful not to eat the seed inside!
Ben, Wiltshire

There are 26 Malteesers in each packet
Rachel M

Champange is actually an english invention. the monks of the 12th century didn't like if flat so they put the bubbles into the wine!
Chereen O

All telephone equipment, regardless of whether barred, out of credit, without a SIM card, or even disconnected landlines must be able to make calls to emergency services - by law.
Paul M

Many female spiders attack and eat their mates after copulation, but one species takes it a step further, the poor male inevitavely dies randomly after the act
Rachel Rouvray, Essex

Giraffes can lick their own ears.
Cathy B

Every time Beethoven sat down to write music, he poured ice water over his head.
Bob N

Killer whales actually do kill whales!!!
Chris P

all the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666. Spooky huh?
vicky B

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
Myriam C

?Formicophilia? is the fetish for having small insects crawl on your genitals.
Kelly M

when you hold a shell to your ear you do not hear the sound of the sea - it is the sound of your blood rushing...
dawnlouise M

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
joe M

it is only the female mosquito that bites, the males leave you alone
Maria H

Every tongue has its own individual print, which is unique to each person.
Avis R

A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground
Kim L

There are 525 948.766 minutes in a year.
Frances H

things that grow above the ground float in water, things that grown below the ground sink......strange huh!
Anna B

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.
Karla D

pregnant women are allowed to relieve themselves in the street by law!
valerie F

it takes 8 mintues for the light from the sun to travel to the earth.
Gareth C

A Tigon, a cross between a male lion and female tiger grows to a huge size because the growth regulator "gene" occurs in female lions and in male tigers, and so there is no growth inhibitor in the Tigon's DNA.
Paul M

No word in the English language rhymes with "month"!
Yulia S

an air bubble in an hypodermic injection cannot kill.you would have to use a bicycle pump to make ones blood frothy enough to kill.
ron, cottingham east yorkshire

Lemon Juice kills HIV virus but would also kill humans at the dose needed to be effective
Chris M, galashiels

The tale that the US spent loads on a pen which could write in space while the Russians used pencils is a myth. Ordinary biros will work in space and the Russians did not use pencils as the tips if broken off could have caused an electrical short.
DAVID, Whitchurch Shropshire

Not only is casino royale a remake of an earlier made "spoof" movie of the same name, in 22 movies, it is the first james bond movie to have an official sequel
Andrew B

James Bond's home in Jamacia was called Goldeneye.
Zoe H

The mosquito is the deadliest insect on the planet, the second is the Hepatitis Bee
Justine Wills, Bodmin

when a baby seal sneezes it spurts blood
garry l, chippenham

tigers dont just have striped fur but also striped skin!
sadia H

it's been measured that a reticulated python's death squeeze would be like resting a school bus on a glas jar and thn placing it on your chest!
Natalie, Portsmouth, UK

if the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died
kev, lancs

the largest cell in the human body is the female egg and the smallest is the male sperm
kev, lancs

did you know your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still
kev, lancs

Hmmm, American executives proposed Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood for the role of Bond in the 1970s. In the 1980s, Mel Gibson was also considered for the Bond role.
Greg B

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 B.C.... anyone dare to try it? lol
Stacey M, Edinburgh

Sharks are immune to all known diseases
Harry, Cat and Bronwyn , Belper

When a hedgehog is run over all it's entrails come out of it's bum because it's skin it really thick
Amy, Morecambe

Mattel have produced more dresses than any other company in the world. Barbies gotta wear something!!
Josh, Johnstone

rabbits can't burp or fart!
natalie, cardiff

Hitlers was a fan of Charlie Chaplin, thats where he got the moustache from
Sarah W, Shotton

Weatherspoons was named after the teacher of the man who created the restaurant. The teacher told him that he would never be anything after school.
Sarah W, Shotton

there is a word to rhyme with purple is CURPLE its the strip of leather that holds the horse saddle to the horse
angelo, lisburn

If you weighed a truck carrying birds, standing on the bed of the truck, it would weigh exactly the same if they all decided to take flight.
Paul G

santas suit was green before red. coka cola turnd it red for a advert..
darren, oldham

Heinz use enough tomatoes to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool everyday & Heinz sell 1.5million cans of beans everyday
Laura, Aberdeen

The artery of a blue whale is so big that a baby can crawl through it.
Karen F

The longest animal pregnancy is the elephant at 2 years while the shortest is the opossum at just 13 days.
Holly G

The Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from public libraries.
victoria C

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
victoria C

if you cut up several different type of sponges and put them in a bath tub with water over several weeks they will all reform back into the orginal sponges
Sarah B

Daniel Craig is the first actor to play James Bond who is younger than the series itself.
Kim A

2 cans of coke and a banana cures even the most stonking of hangovers
Frances L

A group of Ravens is called an 'unkindness'.
Lizzie, Sheffield

The first couple to be shown in bed together on TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone
Stuart R

Red is not a colour it is a hue. A colour is made up of hue, chroma and intensity
Dan C

parrots like to wrestle! (well mine does)
jolene B

the first product hp made was an automatic urinal flusher
paul, glengarriff west cork ireland

did you know the front door to number 10 downing street can only be opened from the inside
kev, lancashire

On average 15% of people secretly chew their toenails.
julie C

Boy George was fired from a job at Tesco supermarkets for "choosing to wear the store's carrier bags#
Steve H

A rat can last longer without water than a camel
Myriam C

The Sweat Of Onion is an anagram of I Want One Of Those
Steve R

When I juggle my fireclubs I end up with no hair on the back of my hands.If I stop juggling for a couple of weeks it grows back again
Alistair R

You need to buy a good pair of shoes and a good bed because if you are not in one you're in the other!
Diana A

the collective term for a group of mechanics is a clutch
Andrew S

Butterflies taste with their feet
Linda A

James Bond has one child - a son named James Suzuki. His mother is Kissy Suzuki
Sandra G

Sheena Easton was the only singer of a Bond Theme to appear in the title sequence.
KEVIN R

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year. =)
Lawrie N

tigers are ticklish right at the tip of their tail.
Victoria B

When you blush, the lining of your stomach also turns red.
Stephanie D

The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny and full grown is about 11 mm in length.
Yvonne P

there are to date 6000 satellites launched into space are still in orbit only 700 are operational
MATTHEW S

Remy Bricka was the first man to 'walk' across the atlantic on a pair of floating polyester skis in 1988
helen W

In Tudor times, Theatre was a new craze that the people loved. They would stand & watch new plays by Shakespeare, but as there were no toilets, people just went where they stood! Ew!
Lesley W

Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase......... 'goodnight, sleep tight.'
angelo, lisburn

A rat can last longer than a camel without water
Steve H

Flamingoes get their colouring from eating blue-green algae
Alison F

Dogs can't sweat
Adrian, Ripon

the ovedraft of this country costs half a milion pounds a second in interest!
Joanna P

One in every 3,400 Americans is an Elvis impersonator
Lorraine R

There are tactile cones under all pedestrian crossing control buttons that rotate and shake when the green man shows, for blind or deaf pedestrians.
Darren T

A rhinoceros's skin can be up to 4" think and is almost completely bulletproof to most guns!
Rhoda B

Place unpeeled bananas in icy cold water, in fridge over-night. When used next day in fresh fruit salad - THEY WILL NOT TURN BLACK !
Eileen E

there are enough germs trapped under a ring on your finger to equal the number of inhabitants of europe. Think of how infrequently the tudors washed and how many germs they must have been carrying.
Martin B

Did you know that in medieval times it was considered rude/scandalous to show off ankles or hair, but completely fine for breasts to be out? (possible reasons for this might be that children were breastfed, so it was an everyday thing)
Nikki K

A kiwi is also known as a Chinese gooseberry
Genevieve H

Gorillas can't swim
Sandra C

The creator of Peter Pan (J M Barrie) didn't create the name Wendy, but he was one of the first to name a girl Wendy
Sandra C

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side.
Chris C

"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
Lisa R

In the last 4000 years......... no new animals have been domesticated
Charlotte B

'Four' is the only number whose total of letters equals the value of the figure.
Peter George Decker, Ilford, Essex

the term to "wet your whistle" comes from the days when Ale houses aloud patrons to keep their own tankards behind the bar. These tankards would have whistles moulded onto the side of them so that the drinker could blow his whistle to signal that he needed his tankard topped and his whistle wet!
Gemma, Northern Ireland

only pigs and humans get sunburnt
Barbara, Dublin

the only dog that can't swim is the bassett hound
laurel R

If you remain celibate your body naturally emits 'nocturnal emissions'
CHris F

coca cola gets rid of rust and is a great toilet cleaner.
Victoria S

The Turks and Caicos Islands do not have traffic lights anywhere in the country. The motorway speed limit is 40mph and you can drink and drive, as long as you are not legally drunk.
Sean, Bridgnorth

word describing the shape of the bubbles in beer foam is orthotetrachidecahedrons
Linda H

Male & female owls have different hoots.
marie D

I once ate 72 hot dogs over 4 days in Chicago
michael C

an inch of washing up liquid in a bottle lasts nearly as long as half a bottle
Jenny P

You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of Coke and it will be gone in two days
Christine B

It is impossible to apply mascara without opening your mouth
Sarah-Jayne W

A pound of armadillo meat contains 780 calories.
Leanne M

Some male spiders pluck their cobwebs like a guitar, to attract female spiders.
Jo B

If a pregnant woman needs a wee in public, it is a legal obligation for the police to shield her with their coat
Amelia, Sandbach

Physicists now believe the universe to be three billion years younger than previously thought.
Mark A

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
Timothy P

butterfly's used to be called Flutterby's!
Ian M

Ghost Town in Dutch is spookstad !
Simon K

The fear of long words is called Hippopotamonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
Josie H

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!
Jane A

Mosquito is the deadliest animal in Africa.
Liisa T

In Rolling Stone's 2004 list of the 500 greatest songs of all time, "London Calling" by The Clash ranked number 15, the highest for any song by a punk band
Sally R

Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If it is white there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
Alan D

In Estonia it's illegal to simulantiously have sex and play chess.
Lucy, Southport

A hippos milk is pink!!!!!!!! :-)
Lana M

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook
kim J

A cockroach can live up to a week without it`s head.
Sal, Taunton

There are ten times as many bacteria in or on your body than human cells.
Victoria J

Brazil is 600 square meters smaller than Europe.
Amy R

your goodies are better value than Firebox
sue B

Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water
Bridgette O

Peanuts, almonds, pistachios, Brazils, cashews, coconuts, horse chestnuts and pine nuts aren't nuts! They are seeds ir peas instead
Callum, London

Interestingly... use of caravans will go down soon! (woop woop) because "new" driving licenses don't automatically permit people to be qualified to tow them like the "old" ones did. So HOPEFULLY people won't bother getting trained to be allowed to drive them and therefore we'll see less of them on our roads! There you go :)
Christine B

James Bond's star sign is Scorpio.
Daniel O

I have a son called Ben!
Lorna M

The largest number of children born to one woman is recorded at 69. From 1725-1765, a Russian peasant woman gave birth to 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. OUCH!
Timothy P

a group of owls is called a parliament
nicola S

the hawaiian alphabet only has 12 letters - a,e,i,o,u,h,k,l,m,n,p and w
c B

The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heart
Simon P

When snakes are born with two heads, they fight each other for food. How dumb!!
Martha S

While it's an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it's not an offence to throw it over someone's garden wall!
Danielle M

in the new james bond film quantom of solace the film does not end with bond sleeping with the girl ! oops sorry to spoil the ending but you did say tell us something we don't know !
Lisa C

A man is not allowed to marry his widow's sister (for obvious reasons)!
Adam C

In an effort to raise funds and awareness, The Eczema Society will shortly be releasing a scratch card.
Jonathan P

an anteater can only physically roll sideways 3 times.
Richard T

the left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right! :o)
rachel H

Did you know the the song 'Video killed the Radio Star' was the very first video to be shown on MTV when it launched.
Elizabeth C

An elephant has 40,000 muscles in its trunk, but not a single bone!
Robert G

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear quite bright until you hear them speak.
Mike H

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants!
Danny A

i once tipped a sleeping cow...
Stephen F

If you put a wooden spoon in a pan of boiling water, when cooking, it won't boil over, no matter how high the heat.
Gemma M

Dolphins are the only other mammal (and animal) that has sex just for pleasure. Also is you multiply 1,111,111,111 x 1,111,111,111 you get 12345678987654321 :)
Elizabeth H

All porcupines float in water :)
Louise S

its freezing today
s W

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. That's where the phrase, "goodnight, sleep tight" came from.
Kathleen T

hot water is heavier than cold water
Fiona M

when you peel an orange you are the first person in the whole wide world to look inside it
Ashley J

king william the third was killed by a molehill thats his horse tripped on in 1702
helen W

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!
Emma B

All babies are born with flat feet, the arch is developed.
Hazel S

Our galaxy is at this very moment colliding with a further 2 other smaller galaxies, but too far away for us to see it happening.
Stewart M

The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law which stated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb
Tim G

you can live on beer alone for 2 weeks
nicola H

in a colony of ants some of the workers are farmers
nicola H

Cats that eat flies become thin
Laura W

In Alfred Hitchcocks film Psycho the blood in the showere scene was Hersheys Chocolate Syrup
Anthony G

Banging your head against the wall burns 150 calories an hour
Ruwan U

You can't tickle yourself
Ruwan U

There is a cat fish in india, possibly nine feet long that has drowned and eaten fully grown ale victims!! The largest caught in that area was ix feet long and weighed about eleven stone
Mark T

On average 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
V P

Wes Craven got the idea for Freddy Kruger's black and red jumper when he was a kid: he heard noises coming from the bins next to his house in the middle of the night and went to look through the curtains to investigate, as he looked through the tramp (in a black and red stripey jumper) looked straight at hime, little Wes got scared and quickly closed the curtain. When he went back to peek half an hour later the tramp was still staring at his window!!
Amy J

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seem like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute--- and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity... ( Albert Einstein)
Shaun, Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire

there are buses from London to Oxford 24hours a day mon-sat
Maureen W

Butterflies have 12,000 eyes!
Kristian S

Alfred Hitchcock appears in all of his films..... somewhere!
Helen O

The word 'disco' is Latin for I Learn.
Gregory M

The duck billed platypuss and the Echidna are the only mammals that lay eggs.
Sarah L

A kangaroo can't jump unless its tail is touching the ground.
Simon W

Honey is the only food that doesn't go off.
Helen C

In America on average 25,000,000 (that's 25 million) packets are sold every day! That is on average 12 packets per person every day! Yes, EVERY DAY!!!
Max R

When Led Zeppelin were first being formed, Jimmy Page originally wanted to call the band The Whoopie Cushion
John M

Dr Crippen was the first criminal to be caught via the use of telegraph
Arthur H

everyone likes the smell of there own farts.
jared saraga, wyndmoor pa

A day is never precisely 24 hours long. It is always a fraction of a second over or less than 24 hours
Scott B

Car adverts use symmetrical number plates so that they can mirror the footage depending on whether the country the ad shows in drive on the left or the right
Nick W

The 100 years' war wasn't actually 100 yrs long- it was 116 years long.
Matt, Verwood

Bagpipes were invented in France not Scotland
Dave N

Despite the common drawings of Noah's ark with giraffe's heads sticking out the top, the ark was huge, only slightly smaller than a football pitch and completely housed all the animals on board.
John A

Ripe bananas glow blue under a UV light!
Chris Q

Most children have imaginary friends, my daughter has imaginary cakes :)
Paul S

A tortoises gender is determined by the temperature of the location in which it's egg is laid. Coooooooool!
Michael A

The first electronic gadget used by London Transport to track the progress of London's red buses, way back in the 1960's/70's, was a roadside device that sat on top of a post, about 3 meters high, which recognised an i.d plate on the side of each bus: 'Bus Electronic Scanning Equipment', affectionately known as 'Bessie' by the bus drivers, (well not so affectionately because they objected to the fact they were being 'spied' on!).
Fred O

before becoming a rock god Kurt cobain used to be a janitor!
Chris R

DID U KNOW THAT HUMANS ARE MEANT TO SHARE 49% OF THE SAME D.N.A WITH A BANANNA!!
HANNAH, PEWSHAM

In case of earthquake, lay in the bath seeking shelter under a mattress.
Liam

It takes 48 hours for your liver to fully recover from one pint of beer.
Sandy, Long Eaton

When a Horned Toad is angry, it squirts blood from its eyes!
Lewis G

The distance between a man's nipples is the same for every man no matter what his chest size is.
Alice, Brighton

Pimlico is the only London Underground station that does not contain any of the letters in the word 'badger'!
Gemma C

Every part of the yew tree is poisonous.
Alison H

In the Czech and Slovak languages, the word for rollmop is the same as for the @ sign
Adele, Buckingham

There is a giant mushroom in Oregon that is over 2,400 years old, covers 3.4 square miles of land, and is still growing!
Melanie P

if you draw a line of chalk infront of an ant they cant cross it. encircle one and its trapped
Karen, England

Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania used to be in Kenya, until Queen Victoria gave it to her cousin Kaiser Wilhelm
clive M

Skoda means broken in Czech
Mike W

Unatractiphobia is the morbid fear of ugly people.
Karen F

A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon
Tom T

Cows poo on average 16 times a day
Sue S

The best weightlifting equipment in the world is made in Sweden.
Simon M

Your tongue is the only muscle joined to a bone at one end!
Richard, belfast

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink
SARA L

Bombo has the closest rail line near the beach in Australia
Lynn Paton, N.S.W Australia

widcome judson invented the zipper! :)
Monika A

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky. ^^
S K

The bad winter of 1709 killed off all the walnut trees in the UK.
Susan B

moles head up hill in winter and downhill in summer!
Neil M

If thrown from the 7th floor a cat is more likely to survive than if it were thrown from the 3rd floor as it would have time to prepare itself
Nick, Norwich

Moray eels have an extra jaw with teeth in the back of their throath that 'shoots' forward when they open their mouths, grap their prey and take it in. (Just like the xenomorph Alien has in the Alien movies) It's called a Pharyngeal jaw, and it's the friggin' coolest thing I've ever seen!!
Thijzer, Groningen

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.
Paul F

Albert Lee owns a black 1958 Les Paul Custom given to him by Eric Clapton, a black 1958 J-200 given to him by Don Everly[49] and an Everly Brothers model. Lee played the J-200 during the Concert For George. The guitars are usually kept under lock and key
Sally R

On the subject of guitars a guitarist in the 70s once had an 18 string guitar (the story goes that the neck was strengthened with clutch cable. Another guitarist played a 9 string guitar (a 12 string with 3 strings removed)
Geoff L

Barnacles have the longest penis in the animal kingdom in proportion to their body length!! Their schlong is 40 times bigger than the little buggers body! Sccchhhhhwwwwing!!!!! :)
Michelle H

Porcupines float in water.
Nikolas C

If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
CHRIS Y

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
Jordan R

King Kong was Adolf Hitler's favorite movie.
Thomas G

Did you know that GAA in Ireland stands for the Gaelic Athletic association.
Liam

if you cover a birds eyes, it will not move or struggle if you lift it up. great for poaching!!!
Nina, Malvern

Badger cubs are only born between mid January to mid March, although a female badger can mate and produce a fertilised egg at any time of the year. This is because the fertilised egg goes into suspended animation due to a technique known as delayed implantation. A female badger can store fertilised eggs until she feels the time is right to release them to gestate. it also means that theoretically, one litter of 3 - 5 cubs may have more than one biological father!
Margie the vet nurse, Amble northumberland

Coconuts are actually berries, but strawberries aren't :)
Wolf, Londond

Chickens Can Get Milked!
Billie, arbroath

In Bavaria, it's forbidden to: wash your bicycle in the street, cycle on the cycle lane on the left hand side of the street (even though you're not on the flippin road), cycle without lights attached to the bike (even if it's noon at midsummer), walk across the road when the little man is red, make domestic noise between noon and 3pm on weekdays, recycle on a sunday, use a washing machine or hang your washing out on a sunday. For some of these, you can get fined up to forty euros!
T, Munich

Germany's white high-speed train is called "tunnel tampon" by the technicians themselves.
Institute for Advanced Hair Splitting

I have found out to my cost that when a girl has PAT written on a badge on her lapel, it is her name, NOT an instruction.
Wadatodo, Oldham

The word news comes from North, Rast, South and West.
sue, brampton

you should never take a laxative and a sleeping tablet at the same time
Vincent O

Flys take off backwards
chris H

Total cheese production in Holland is 30 million pounds per week
Victoria R

Henry V invented passports
John M

Don Planner was the first blind man with a heart by-pass to climb Mont Blanc, in 1996
Vivian D

Planet Earth is closer to The Sun in January and furthest away in July!
Phillip D

There are 206 bones in the human body
Ash R

Green tea is not fermented, but black tea is. Oolong tea is half fermented....
Claire K

Lots of berries on holly etc DO NOT mean a hard winter will follow, they are result of a good spring !
Eileen E

1 in 18 people have a third nipple!
Wendi B

If you chew an apple pip, then it get metabolised by your body and will turn into cyanide! So in theory it is possible to die from eating apple pips!
Christopher B

Casino capitalism is destroying the world
Emma F

Adnams brew Carbon Neutral beer
Andy G

There are 36 Tic Tac's in a pack
Claire, Surrey

The valley of the kings is only just 1/3 excavated
Graham W

in olden days criminals were buried upside down in case they rose from the dead..
Karl T

bats always fly left out of a cave
andrew P

worms have five hearts
anna R

Elephants communicate on a frequency not detectable by the human ear
Rebecca L

there are a million insects to each single human on this planet
valerie F

A giraffe can go without water longer than a camel can.
JAKI R

A recent survey by Co-op insurance in the UK has concluded that car drivers with the star sign Aries are the most likely to have an accident and those who have a star sign of Sagittarius are the least likely. Car drivers with an Aries star sign account for 9% of all accidents. Given this is only slightly higher than the statistical average you would expect its unlikely anyone is going to check your star sign before getting in the car with you!
Kim L

Mississippi Alligators have the most powerful bite force ever measured. these Alligators snap their strong jaws shut with an average force of 2,125 pounds, or with about as much force as a mid-size car falling on top of someone. One even bit as much as 2,960 pounds of force
Tracey C

Every person has a unique tongue print
Cathie S

The DNA of a pig is 98.7% identical to that of humans
liz B

In Sweden the All Saints' official holiday takes place on the first Saturday of November
Helen J

A smurf is 3 apples tall
Genevieve H

The worlds populaion would fit onto the Isle of Mull
Coleen A

The land we stand on rises and falls a few feet twice a day due to the center of gravity between the earth and moon. Not a biggie, but it's the best I could think of on short notice!
tom, bethel park

Women blink twice as much as men.
James

Experts who study poo are called SCATOLOGISTS :)
Avis R

Not sure if this will be allowable so I wil use an asterix where prudent: The word "F*CK" comes from the request to have sex from the King Fornicating Under Consent of the King
Shameless, Hemel Hempstead

Before you criticise someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you do criticise them you are a mile away AND you have their shoes.
Tim, Kendal

The movement of Daleks is based on a traditional Russian dance
Simon H

Did you know...Forty six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean
Suzy P

Wilkinson was buried in an iron coffin
dork, wisbech

Author Chris Ryan used to be in the SAS
Peter H

Badgers can consume up to 100 times their own body weight in cous cous.
Rob M

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Michael C

some people are like slinkies, they serve no purpose in life but they do make you smile when you push them down the stairs
berni, nth yorks

Sheep cling to the sides of mountains because they have velcro on their feet
Sandie, Wirral

The measurement from your hand to inside your elbow is the same length as your foot.
Sandie, Wirral

The fear of number 13 is called triskaidekaphobia and it was derived from treiskaideka, the Greek word for thirteen and phobia.
amy B

Cockroaches fart every 15 minutes.
Panda, Saaf Eest, innit

There is no specific word for a male ballet dancer.
Louise G

The Ploughman's Lunch was actually a marketing device dreamed up by the Cheese Marketing Board
Arthur H

slugs change their gender every 3 weeks
Holly G

Santa Claus lives in Finland, Lapland and is called Joulupukki.
anne E

Each femur makes 2 million red blood cells per second...
Robin D

The latin word for goose is brandy
Kay S

A 'jiiffy' is a unit of time. About 0.01 seconds. Hense the phrase 'back in a jiffy'
Matthew H

All train engines in North America blast a single letter in morse code with thier horns. That letter is "Q".
matthew, seattle, wa

cow's farts is the main reson for globel warming
maria S

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook
Annemiek S

all the numbers on a casino wheel add up to 666
Graeme S

'Cold enought to freeze balls off a brass monkey' refers back to the Royal Marines. Canon balls were piled on a brass monkey, made of brass (seriously) and when it got cold, the brass would shrink, causing the canon balls to topple over because of a lack of space. Hence, freezing the balls of a brass monkey...
Kaz, Cape Town

the largest thing a blue whale can swallow is a grapefruit, though it usually prefers krill. also, a blue whales heart is about the same size as a smallish hatchback
Finny, Malvern

All of the clocks in the movie ?Pulp Fiction? are stuck on 4:20.
Jane A

The saying "sleeping like a baby" is an oxymoron.
Thijs, Groningen, Netherlands

73% of our body is water! That fact rather worries me... I hope we don't evaporate (in times of global warming ;-)!!
Piet Brysse, Oostkamp (Belgium)

if you drop an egg on the floor, spray it with hairspray, it will harden it making it easier to clean up.
Kaidyn, leicester

did you know that......eventually humans fingers are all going to be the same length due to evolution
louise, wallasey

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying
Tyler, Eastbourne

Airplane seats are filled with carbon to dis-spell any gases expelled from the bottoms of passengers.
Suze G

wearing earphones for 1hr multiplies ear bacteria 700 times! which is why i bought an ilogic sound hat :-)
Pamela J

The sky is not blue,it is black.It only appears blue when sunligh shines through the atmosphere. The moon is falling but don't worry.It's speed keeps it aloft. A common misconseption is,if a window breaks on a pressurised aircraft,objects are"sucked out".They are in fact blown out as the force comes from inside the aircraft.
Rob S

Why is it that when you tell someone there are billions of stars in the sky, they believe you. But when you tell them the paint is wet, they check?
Billy, Darlington

mushrooms hide at night
ellen W

Hong Kong has prepared a multi million pound plant to deal with 20 tonnes of manure a day from all the horses at Olympics
Joanne D

Beard hair grows at twice its usual rate when you're in a plane.
Michael, Colchester

If water temperatures do not get high enough, some tadpoles may remain as tadpoles until the following year.
George P

All McVities Jaffa cake delivery vans have 'no jaffa cakes are left in this van overnight' due to the amounts of thefts that occur.
Laura W

"Ping Pong wasn't invented by the Chinese, the british invented it... and we called it Wiff Waff!" (BoJo)
Jonathan B

Friday the 13th is unlucky because it was this day in October 1307 that the King of France attacked the Knights templar bases
David H

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury! :)
Mark P

Did u know, florence knightingale invented the piechart.
Jonathan, Norwich

That gigantic RolerBalls are going to take over the world ridden by MoPods that want to controle the universe and destroy their arch nemisis The Verballs who will launch their USB Missile Launchers and killer USB powered humping dogs so dont delay grab your Giant Stress Ball and wind up space hoppers to bounce away to a far far far unknown galaxy using your trusty Cat-a-pult to defend yourselves and your Laser Cosmos to map the way, Good Luck and may the Sat Nag be with you!!!!!!!
Christopher H

A person has no sense of smell when they are sleeping.
Tracey C

There is no Jazz music at Jazzercise...only loads of Jazz hands!!
Ntokozo D

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour
Andrew C

A googol is the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros. If you got silver balls 1cm in diameter and filled the known universe with them, you would not even have a googol of silver balls.
Andrew S

Louis IV of France had a stomach the size of two regular stomachs.
Carla W

Houseflies take off backwards - that's why they're so hard to kill. Try hitting form 'behind'. TRUE.
Alison S

In the very early stages of development, the human foetus grows a pair of gills, which are later reabsorbed. How cool is that!
Graham L

lime is not put in corona for taste it is used to keep the flies out by locals in Mexico
Emily K

The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.
Matthew H

The longest snake ever found is a reticulated python that was found in Sulawesi Island, Indonesia in 1912. It was 33 feet long
Anthony M

Armadillos can hold their breath upto 6 minutes
amanda H

bird poo is both urine and faeces in one, which proves that birds have excellent "time management" skills.
Jacqui A

Hong Kong has the secong highest life expectancy in he world.
Emer H

if a female panda gives birth to two babies, she will only look after one of them and the other is left to die.... sad i know!
Sian B

The most common owl in the Uk is the Teat Owl.
David T

A polar bears skin is black
Darren L

The late great English singer-songwriter Nick Drake wouldn't let sadly still living painful crooner Chris De Burgh join his school band because he was "too short".
Alan K

the worlds biggest living thing is a mushroom
Lynne B

Nova Scotian pedestrians have right of way at roads, blinking annoying especially as they just wander out at any time and don't even look!!!
samantha G

I bet you didn't know that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was Monsanto's lawyer before he got the nod.
patric J

Aberystwyth (means mouth of the Ystwyth river) is on the rheidol river.
Trevor M

there is no propper name for the back of the knee!!!
ali M

In a year's time a man will shave off about 500gms of beard
Martin D

The distance from fingertip to fingertip (when your arms are outstretched like the angel of the north) is EXACTLY the same as your height!!!
Kate H

It is illegal for a Member of Parliament to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armour.
Jamie B

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible
amy S

Peanuts are vegetables.
helen S

The ropes on a sailing boat are called sheets because you often get tangled in them and u also get tangled up in the sheets on your bed.
James H

a sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. (spike milligan)
Mike B

Humans are the only creatures that look at something when you say "look at this" - animals cannot distinguish to follow a point - apparently! :)
Lucy C

Scoby-doo has been around since 1969 - so he is old in human years and antique in dog years
lisa B

Marilyn Monroe used to chop a little bit of a heel off just one of her shoes, which would have the effect of making her bottom roll as she walked.
Simon T

the DNA responsible for a butterfly's wings to beat is the same DNA responsible for the human heart to beat
maria, Hanover

if you were to be standing on the closest cluster planet to earth and had a huge telescope that would alow you to see earth, you would see dinosaurs!
ewan, london

Chickens can't swallow when they are upside down
Melanie P

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Gary C

Asian hornets can destroy a beehive of 10000 bees in a day
Pauline C

the bamboo bat is the size of a bumble bee
antony

The average size of a herd of cows is 21.
Martin T

Canine tapeworms can migrate to the human brain and form a huge cyst filled with millions of tapeworm larve....oh and by the way this will kill you.
Rachel T

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear any pants!
Sheila W

the vauxhall nova (car) did not sell well in spain, because in spanish nova literally means it doesntgo
someone, Bristol

The pitohui, a songbird from Papua New Guinea, is the first known case of a poisonous bird: it has the same toxins in its skin and feathers as poison dart frogs.
Cerian T

During the English civil war, roundhead troops were given condoms made from sheep's bladders.
Tony L

Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, every time you breathe!
Adrian B

Guiness is not good for your health. It's just a falacy.
Ian S

nazi germany funded experipents to extract gold from seawater
rj M

From the top of Snaefell in the Isle of Man it is possible to view seven kingdoms.
Steve L

Did you know that sea is salty because of all the nutrients fresh watergets from the rocks on the way down to the sea?
Rachel R

The word "Pen" comes from the usage in days of yore of the wing feathers of a male Swan, also called a "Pen". How interesting.
Catie A

During the Great Fire of London Samuel Pepys buried some Parmesan cheese in his back garden
Bridgette O

Guinea pigs cannot vomit.
Ron G

The QE2 only moves 6 inches for every gallon of fuel that it uses.
Carl E

Traditional victoria sponge cakes use raspberry jam not strawberry!
Sharon M

most horses are scared of pigs
Sally H

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin
joanne W

An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards!
Lisa D

cheese does'nt give you nightmares unless injected intra(blue)veinously
mark B

Over land, hippos can run faster than people
Thomas C

The phrase "Holy Moly" is originated from the Classical history, in "the Odyssey" where Odysseus is given Holy Moly, which is a magical herb, to defeat Circe! Now isnt that a useless fact everyone wants to know!?
ben cain, Richmond

Slugs, aside from eating your treasured plants and vegetables, are in fact canibalistic too. We had a family of slugs that came in through the cat flap to eat catfood, I started to find them cute and they would gather with the cats for ham tidbits. But then one had a nasty foot squashing accident and when I came back to bury him later, the family were gathered around eating him. Needless to say that was the end of my pet slugs.
juju, omnipresent

The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue!
Sarah W

the plastic bits on the end of shoelaces are called aglets
denise C

When the Coke slogan Coke is Life was translated into Korean the translation meant Coke brings your ancestors back from the grave
Anthony G

the gerkin isput in a hamburger at mac donalds because if it wasnt there there would not be enough nutritional value for it to be sold
louise F

Lithium-ion batteries can explode if exposed to high temperature!
Kevin W

The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation. (Much worse than "going blind!")
Denise F

Place some Ice Cubes into the gravy and remove before they melt. This will attract the excess fat making nice gravy which is not oiley.
Steven J

An adult cat has 32 teeth.
Jason S

The Box jellyfish has 64 anuses
Nick C

Some people have a better sense of direction when they're in the Southern hemisphere...
Sharon C

On dice whatever side you look at the opposite facing side will always add up to 6 e.g. 1+5 = 6 :)
steve H

A child has 94 more bones than an adult.
Anne-Marie W

Hippopotamus milk is pink
John W

Hedgehogs don't have any fur when theyre born and their spines are soft.
Susan B

You can extend your car key range by holding it under your chin or next to your head and it can almost double the range to lock/unlock your car! Google it if you don't believe it...
Shahbaz M

That a golf ball has about 300 - 450 dimples on it.
Richard B

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Kerri S

The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter, is uncopyrightable.
Simon P

In 32 years. there are about 1 billion seconds
Tym B

strippers used to dance around the north and south pole, but had to stop because they kept getting stuck. also, polar bears don't appreciate lapdances.
pandi, hampshire

The black lines under the cheetah's eyes act like sunglasses and stop the sun reflecting into their eyes. All the better to see you with!
David B

Slugs have four noses.
Kim D

The total body count in the first Robocop film is thirty
STEVE N

The word "testis" cames from the Latin meaning to bear witness. In ancient Rome, only men could bear witness or testify in a public forum. In order to show importance to their testimony, they would hold their testicles as they spoke, and an oath was declared while holding another's testicles.
Jonathan B

Bears can't run downhill.
Mark A

Did you know If a man farted non-stop for six years and nine months and then lit it he would produce an explosion equal to the power of the first atomic bomb!
tracy G

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo
Jamie M

the inventor of elongated sugar packets that come with your coffee in restaurants comitted suicide when he saw people tearing the end off the packs just like with the square packs instead of breaking them in half as he had intended
Sarah T

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
Adam P

Pall Mall gets its name from palle maille - a precursor to croquet that was played there in the 17th Century.
Simon B

Purple is a copyright of Cadburys!
Oliver H

Children need to be told they are good (repeatedly!) before they will be good.
Nicola W

The idea that goldfish only have a 7 second memory is a complete myth!
Robert L

In Japan if you are unwell, your family make origami cranes out of bits of red paper. 1000 cranes means the illness will be cured. It takes hours and hours to make the cranes. It also proves their devotion to you. My Japanese daughter-in-law has made her first 100 cranes, only 900 to go, in her efforts to make me well. It is such a beautiful gesture.
Lynne H

There are more oraganisms living on one persons skin than there are people in the world - Creepy :)
Paul S

The Horseshoe Inn in the village of Tatenhill near Burton upon Trent has a Mammorth called Marvin living in his own little cave in the Bar... Ask staff to meet him!
Edd S

The oldest tube line in the world is the Metropolitan line. It opened on the 10th January 1863
Joanne S

The Canary islands are actually named after dogs not birds. The original name was 'Canariae insulae' or 'Island of dogs' due to the wild wolves that roamed there. The Canary bird actually derives its name from the islands on which it was first discovered.
Tim L

basenji breed dogs can't bark - they howl like a wolf when they are happy and meow like a cat for attention
Fiona L

When a female horse and a male donkey mate, the offspring is called a "mule". However, when a male horse and a female donkey mate, the offspring is called a "hinny". And when a male zebra and a female donkey mate, the offspring is called a ?zedonk? or ?zebrass?....
Richard S

In 1916, an elephant was tried and hung for murder in Erwin, Tennessee.
Iain M

when fat people die, they sometimes turn into mummies. if the conditions are right, their fat turns to adipocere - a waxy/soapy material which can preserve a corpse for 100 years or more.
Ashley B

Whales sneeze
shelley B

World's largest egg was laid by a one-year old hen in Cuba (179.7 g) earlier this year
Lee F

'Dead Hedgehog' flavour cripsp don't actually taste like dead Hedgehoggs at all!
Anthony M

The redback spider (an Australian relative of the black widow) uses it's web as a trampoline in order to catch prey.
Andrew M

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Kelly H

In Doctor Who, if the vortex is blue, he is travelling into the past and if it is red, he's travelling into the future
Gemma M

Baby Stingrays are born with feet.
Aaron B

All the sturgeon (the fish from which we get caviar) caught in British waters are property of the Queen
Julie S

The alphabet song and twinkle twinkle little star are the same tune...well I didn't know until yesterday!
Emma S

You can teach an old dog new tricks if you've got some chocolate drops in your hand to bribe him.
Debra

Did you know that a rhinos horn is made of hair, compacted down
Nicola

87% of facts are made up on the spot.
James, Kent

There are more than 7 million millionaires in the world
dale, shropshire

Common sense is dead.It was not so common some time ago and now its extinct.
Jes, Malta the Great

cows can walk up stairs but they can't walk down them... its all to do with their knee hinges!!
Fisha

The longest word you can spell on the top row of a QWERTY keyboard is typewriter.
Lyndsay Matthews, Horsham

chickens catch and eat flies and they talk to each other
chrissy, perthshire

Whoever said that nothing rhymes with the word "orange" is just plain wrong. Try saying "door hinge" in a Dick Van Dyke-esque cockney accent: "daw 'inge". Job done.
Snell, Reading

My friend Beth, while out on a normal Saturday drinking, stole a banana suit and wore it all night until she got crapped on by a pigeon.
Teresa, Newcastle upon Tyne

It is unknown how long it would take a clown to eat the average human being - experts say it is because after a finger or two, it would stop eating and protest that you tasted funny.
Louis, Worcester

"Racecar" is spelt the same forwards and backwards.
Keith, Devon

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
Henry H

After finding out the hard way, I learned never to play leap frog with a unicorn.
Alan, Dumfries

After finding out the hard way, I learned never to play leap from with a unicorn.
Alan, Dumfries

The pain of having children doesn't stop after birth...Trust me
Joseph W

It's not actually impossible to lick your own elbow! My brother can do it, and I know two other people who can.
Susie, Nottingham

Earth has two moons; the second one is called Cruithne which orbits the Earth every 770 years.
Holden, Leeds

The say time is money...as it turns out I have loads of time, I must be very rich!
Pete, Magherafelt

All the names of the continents begin and end with the same letter.
Chris, Liverpool

octopi like cheese
Victoria B

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LICK YOUR OWN ELBOW
LORAINE D

My missus paints ace portraits of Storm Troopers
Matt G

snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
MELANIE S

the space beetween your eyebrows is called glabella
Adam S

More people are killed each year by coconuts falling on their heads than are killed by sharks. Take that Jaws. You got beaten by a coconut. Which is actually a seed, not a nut.
Susie, Nottingham

Wrap onion skins around an egg and boil it and the shell becomes marbled.
Gerri T

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age!
CHRIS Y

Turkey has 8 borders
sharron P

Hippo's milk is pink..
Andrew D

There is 2,700 languages spoken in the world
Tracey C

An espresso has less caffeine than a cup of coffee!
Elisabeth R

In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.
Ruth P

The Spoonerism of 'Sock Cooker' sucks.
Carla W

A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
Graham M

Both the male and female octopus dies after reproducing
Samantha S

A blue Whale's tongue is bigger than the size of a fully grown Elephant
Stuart W

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Nicola D

how can anyone draw a blank?
andrew D

Costa Rica does not have an army
David B

Human lung biopsies will carry on contracting for 48 hours after being removed
Rachel F

all species of beetle are edible
kelly-ann M

Microwave popcorn is a great low calorie snack.
alex B

I have a goldfish called Tiny who is not.
Paula S

I love doing competitions !
Tony H

Typewriter is the longest word you can make from the top row of a qwerty keyboard.
Beth B

i love to win competitions
jo H

the All blacks Haka is about a man hiding down a well and then being let out by a hairy man
Anthony M

revolution is the birth of equality
neil T

Nothing rhymes with orange.....
Ellie T

fratton park spelt backwards is nottarf krap
Deborah A

Red Bull doesn't really give you wings!!
adrian S

In China the stork is a symbol of death, not of birth
Carolyn J

The title music of Some Mothers Do Have 'em is the title of the programme spelt out in Morse Code
Patricia M

My Great Grandfather invented the phrase 'Stop me and buy one' for the Walls Ice Cream Company in 1910 in response to a competition for their new sales tricyclces with cold boxes on them. He was paid £10.
Jonathan , Braintree

The menstrual cycle of a duck billed platypus lasts for 106 days.
Billiam

did you know apparently polar bears are left handed
david S

Whales and dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Nathan C

80 babies born in uk every hour and 70 people die in uk every hour
valerie F

The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com on March 15, 1985.
Richard F

A Crocodiles tongue is attached to the roof of its mouth
Simon W

The banana plant is actually a herb.
Marianne S

The world's shortest commercial flight was between two of the hebrides island and lasted 96 seconds. It costs around £14 for residents of the islands, but loads more for us punters :(
Richard, Belfast!!!

the length of a year is actually 365 days 5 hours, 59 mins and 56 seconds. Every 4th year we have a leap day on feb 29th. But where do we get those extra 16 seconds from?
Simon E

A bird can sing with a broken wing, but you can't pull feathers off a frog.
jec, the lakes

THE ACTUAL AVERAGE MEMORY OF A GOLDFISH IS APPROX 4 WEEKS.
richard M

Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.
Sebastian L

If you feed a seagull Alka Seltzer their stomachs will explode
lisa, london

Tiramisu is the ultimate comfort food: it's name literally means "pick me up"
Neil, Weston-super-Mare

The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Jane M

a mans shirt buttons up the other way to a womans blouse. This dates back to older times when men were too lazy to dress themselves and the women had to dress them.
jen, cardiff

Giraffe's can clean their own ears using their 30cm long tongue!
Stephanie R

Sharks don't have bones.
Sarah B

Note to martyn - there Is a word to rhyme with purple. It's 'gherbil' Ask Richard Gere to say it three times fast. And there's 'furbil', which is what cats upchuck. And herbal. And... and...
Holden McGroin, Birmingham

you can eat cactus!
Sarah W

A mobile phone emits enough microwaves to fry and egg in 22 years.
Kieran B

a cat can not breathe though it's mouth
michael R

cats cannot survive without meat
Chris M

the correct geographical name for the earth is an 'irregular oblique spheroid', due to the gravitational forces of the sun and moon it is always changing shape, therefore at any one point in time since its birth the earth has never held the same shape.
Mr Jamie Coleman, gosport

The short-term memory capacity for most people is between five and nine items or digits. This is one reason that phone numbers were kept to seven digits for so long.
Kim L

Where IS the peck of pickled pepper peter piper picked?
Jessica, looking for the peck of pickled pepper...

The plastic things at the end of shoelaces are called "aglets".
fergus C

When on a plane after it has landed and you want to get out as quickly as possible and people are in the way, just make retching sounds and shout as loudly as you can ''I'm going to be sick''. People will soon move out the way, thus ensuring a quick exit.
Sarah

the medical name for the back of the knee is the popliteal fossa
Peter B

the rocket launch countdown 10- 1 was first used in the 1928 silent movie the girl in the moon
helen W

In Ohio, it's illegal to fish from horseback.
Owen, Rochdale

Cigarette lighters were invented before matches
Roger O

Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon. It's true!
LiquidMatt, Langford

Catfish are the only animals that have an odd number of whiskers
James W

in Ohio it is illegal to push a moose out of a moving aeroplane after 9:30 pm on a thursday. humans and dolphins are the only animals that have sex for pleasure. Spike miligan has "i told you i was ill" written on his grave in celtic. if your stomach did not produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks it would digest itfself. a cat is 30% less likely to survive a drop from 7 stories than 20 stories. a jifffy is 1/100th of a second. i have no life.
Rob, Halstead

A duck's quack doesn't echo!
Lian C

An elephant is the only animal that cannot jump!
Laura D

80% of adults in the uK have a left leg longer than their right leg. I think that's why we never win at athletics - if only they would run clockwise, we'd win every time!
Nicola Lennon, Plaistow, East London

Coventry will win the Premier League next season
Stephen S

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time
Anthony M

ear wax when placed in the headof a pint of bear will make he head disapear
Anthony G

The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver. Also, human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
Richard T

purple is my favourite colour so I love looking at your site for the stuff & the colour scheme!
Denise W

The first auction ever held on ebay was for a broken laser pointer around September 1995. It was intended as a test but actually sold.
Katherine S

The average person laughs 10 times a day
Chris C

The space between the eyebrows is called the Ophryon.
Harry P

When you bleed on your clothes if you spit on it a couple times it will disappear. Nobody else can do this it won't work.
Lorna P

No piece of square dry paper can be folded more than 7 times in half!
Gary C

The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
amy S

Stan Laurel was born in Derbyshire
Ray L

Custard can support the weight of a man as long as you keep moving
Bridgette O

Mint is a mild poison - hence the numb feeling
Nicola R

On average, there is 8 insect legs in every bar og chocolate!!
Lisa C

At lift off, US space shuttles weight about 4.5 million pounds.
Mark D

ROOSEVELT OWNED A SCOTTIE WHOM HE TRUSTED TO TELL HIM WHO WAS TRUSTWORTHY - HE BIT THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ON THE KNEE!
GLENDA P

Tigers have stripey skin as well as fur
Wendy J

A rat can last longer without water than a camel
Lisa D

Lions can mate over 50 times a day!
Sarah B

A butterfly smells with it's feet
Gabriella W

if you pull a giraffe's neck down quick enough it can explode due to only having one blood vessel controlling the flow
Colin S

there are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on the whole planet
nicola H

If the biggest Planet in the Solar system JUPITER was immersed in water it would float
Cecelia A

there are more Avon reps than soldiers in the army!
Ellen A

FASHION and CUSHION are the only two words in the English language that end in SHION.
CAROL K

Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar.
Paul N

You cant sneeze in your sleep
john M

Women blink nearly twice as much as men
Tym B

The geodesic dome is the only structure that becomes stronger as it increases in size
Greg D

more people are allergic to cows milk than any other food
denise C

Houses had thatched roofs-thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. It was the only Place for animals to get warm, so all the cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in The roof. When it rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall Off the roof. Hence the saying, It's raining cats and dogs.
Bob N

In Korea, cider is a non-alcoholic drink. A bit like Sprite.
Matthew B

Cats only get cancer in their extremities because they purr. Fascinating, eh?
Sarah B

An Octopus has three hearts!
Elizabeth R

The Dolphin actually has two tiny little legs tucked up underneath its tummy. They are so well hidden most do not know about them.
Nik H

An owl does not say "twit twoo". One owl says "twit" and another responds with "twoo"
Gill C

That your nose never stops growing.
Lisa A

1) Because of the high density of the sun, once light is created by the fusion of atoms at the centre, it takes one million years for it to reach the outside of the sun. From there it takes mere minutes to get all the way to Earth.
Sophie, My Bedroom

A group of Flamingo's is called a Flamboyance
Nemivravi, Melbourne

Elephants are the only mammals with four knees.
Anna N

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
Andrew F

Earthworms have five hearts
Sebastian N

A human has the same number of bones in its neck as a giraffe.
Tim O

In 7 years, one female cat and her babies can theoretically be the source of 420,000 cats.
J W

hedgehogs should not be given milk
Yvonne P

Spitting whilst skydiving is near impossible and not recommended
Brendan K

Ice- T's real name is Tracey!
chris G

I saw Derren Brown at the Theatre the other week and he guessed what colour boxer shorts I was wearing! He's so freaky!
Liam H

While it's an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it's not an offence to throw it over someone's garden wall.
Sarah W

There are 56 bumps on a Dalek
raj A

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
Sharron D

only smarties have the answer
Hayley T

A leech has 32 brains
Emma J

Did you know that on the fuel indicator on the dash of your car the little petrol symbol actually indicated on which side of your car the petrol filling cap is situated - saves all that looking out of the window to see which side it is - or having to strain the fuel nozzle over the car boot/roof! Take a look I bet you had not realized this.
Margaret Y

The most expensive operation on the NHS... the cochlear implant
Mared D

80's denim LEGEND Shakin' Stevens real name is Mike Barratt - not so rock 'n roll!
Kristel O

If eaten in one meal, 30 to 90 grams of polar bear liver is enough to kill a human being
STEVE N

In the movie "Toy Story", the carpet designs in Sid's hallway is the same as the carpet designs in "The Shining."
Graham H

Cats eat rabbits from the head end down
G G

If you put a frog in a pot of boiling water it will jump straight back out again! HOWEVER!!!!! If you put i frog in a pot of cool water then heat it up until it boils the frog will just stay there a boil to death!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!:):):)
Michael W

Flies land on the ceiling by hookig on with their front legs and swinging through 180 degrees.
George O

In the USA sparkling wine can be called Champagne as they signed a separate copy of the Treaty of Versailles.They emitted this clause after the lifting of prohibition, they then emitted it again when the treaty was re-signed years later. Crafty eh? Crack open a bottle and get sloshed
Peter L

An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavour are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet......honest
Simon P

In average you swallow 8 spiders in your lifetime, they crawl down your throat while you sleep!
James, Davenham

92% of all statistics are made up...... just like that one
Joe, Surrey, UK

Apple computers decided on their name so they would come before Atari in the phone book.
Richard Clews, Birmingham

'An orange' should actually be pronounced "a norange", it was a Spanish word (Naranja) adapted for the ever incapable British
Martyn, Iver

Orange isn't the only colour that has no matching rhyme, try Purple
Martyn, Iver

Contrary to popular belief glass is NOT a liquid it is a solid, an amorphous solid
Chay

Having assured the manufacturers of toothpaste that his idea would double their profits and having been astute enough to secure payment in advance, the clever individual then advised them to double the size of the hole in the tube! Also, I have heard that there is no reason at all to shampoo your hair twice, once is sufficient and the instruction for a second session is motivated purely by profit!
Russ Williams, Pinner

One click of a mouse burns 0.0000024kcals of energy, so if you eat a chocolate bar you'll need to click your mouse 765,551,000 times to burn it off.
SUPERCOOLGUY

Anitidiphobia; the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.
Ciaran, Egham

Independance Day celebrated by the Americans on the 4th of July is wrong. The declaration was signed on the 2nd July but was printed on the 4th...
Debbie, Bournemouth

It's illegal to dig holes in the woods under the Protection of Badgers Act 1992.
Rob, Portsmouth

If you put a piece of the sun the size of a pin head on the earth, you wouldn't be able to stand closer than 90 miles of it!
Ben, Orpington

When the ice cream van plays the jingle that means the ice crean is all sold out
Alice, Hampshire

The first married couple to be showed in bed together on TV were Fred and Wilma Flinstone
Monica, Winchester

cocacola used to contain cocain as an active ingrediant but now it doesnt so there is no chance of getting high ind cocacola anymore
fred, basingstoke

if you buy baged organic watercress and put it into your pond it will grow and you will have free watercress all year long!!!!!!!!
phillip, kings lynn

The phrase "tight as a duck's arse" must be true, otherwise they would fill up with water and sink.
Anthony, Leigh on Sea, Essex.

In the 1830's, ketchup was sold as medicine.
Charlie, Abersyswyth

Is it true that a smile is a curve to set things straight ?
brian hamlett, tadley

5 Amazing Chinchilla facts! 1) They can jump 4 feet in the air 2)They can live for 20-25 years 3) They don't squeak they BARK! Like a small dog on acid 4) They have the densest fur of any mammal 5) They love watching TV (mine seems to favour "Top Gear")
Ben, Westoning

the average Hungarian will consume over 1kg of paprika a year
Vicki, Newcastle upon Tyne

a cat has 32 muscles in its ear
maffa jaffa, harrogate

snot and earwax are the same material.
Ross, UK

your stomach lining has to renew itself every 3 weeks or you would be eaten away from the inside out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
louise, Reading

more people die each year from falling coconuts than people who die from shark attacks
richard, Doncaster

Hippos cant swim. They walk along the bottom of the water
Lottie, Bournemouth

"History is a cruel trick played on the dead by the living"
Travis , Fairfield, Tx.

I Will Prove that some words rhyme with orange. Grorange ? a blend of green and orange (occurs in a Mario Brothers novel) Borange ? "rubbish", "of poor quality" (coined by comedian Ross Noble on the Triple J Ross & Terri show). Porange ? a blend of pink and orange Snorange ? a fictional type of orange that grows in the Arctic
Tasha-Bob

Mnemophobia- Fear of memories. Guy One: "Hey remember time tha--" Guy Two: "Don't... Just.. Don't." *Guy Two Wimpers in the corner.*
Tasha, Colchester

My uncle owned a paper shop but it blew away.
Hugh Jarce, Bath

The first woman to walk on the moon will be shopping for shoes
Greg H

"A white rhino takes its name from the Afrikaans word widj which means wide, because of its wide mouth. The black rhino has a smaller, beak-like mouth and is only called black to contrast the 'white'. Both are, of course, grey. Michelle, Seaford" The word 'wijd' (not spelled widj) is not Afrikaans, but Dutch. The Afrikaans word is 'wyd'.
born2strum, South Africa

Cats have a 3rd eyelid
Rachel F

Butterflies used to be called "Flutterbys!!!"
Ian M

a ducks Quack has no echo!
Stefan D

THERE IS NO RHYME FOR ORANGE
Keith E

Moist air holds heat better than dry air.
Fiona D

Vacuums do not suck things. They create spaces into which the surrounding atmosphere pushes matter.
Julie S

No American has died of old age since 1951, because that was the year the government eliminated that classification on death certificates
julie E

arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth
Annette T

sailors had one gold earing so that they had something to pay for their burial
bryan S

Did you know that Yahoo got its name from the word YAHOO used by Jonathan Swift in Gullivers Travels. i.e. a Yahoo is someone who looks repulsive and who,s actions are barely human!
sharon P

goats have square pupils
Jonathan J

Written exams were invented by the same guy who developed mathematical logarithms.
Mark A

Bananas are actually herbs. Bananas die after fruiting, like all herbs do.
Paul M

Koala Bears make rubbish pets.
Martin B

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words!
Tim F

California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.
Gillian H

The river Isbourne is the only river in England that flows north.
David H

You can ski in Morocco.
Simon W

The pituitary gland is affected by trance.
Alison C

The word miller is derived from the greek word for apple.
Anthony G

Most people die between 3 and 4 am.
BRIAN S

A group of giraffes is called a Tower.
Debbie W

If your eyesight was as sensitive as your hearing, you would be able to see a lit candle as far away as the moon.
Rob F

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Richard G

There's a genre of music called 'sludge metal'.
Cherryl T

The capital of Bulgaria is Sofia.
Tim S

You can clean your shoes with a banana skin.
Christina H

In Israel, religious law forbids picking your nose on Sabbath.
david C

Silk worms only live on mulberry bushes.
Andy C

There is a new breed of ant coming to England. 3 times the size of our home grown one & it will eat almost everything.
George D

The can opener was invented 48 years after the can was first introduced (prior to that, cans were opened with a hammer and chisel).
Anthony G

There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
Mark D

Keep a clear head & always carry a lightbulb.
Tamsin C

You shouldn't put kiwi fruit in a jelly because there's something in ziwi fruuit that stops jelly setting.
Frances L

All glass is coloured in an undetectable shade of green to stop the sun from bleaching your curtains and furniture.
Gary C

When twin calves are born, and one is male with the other female, the female is nearly always infertile (a Freemartin).
Andrea M

The longest creature in the ocean is a worm - the bootstrap worm.
George S

There were strange flashing lights in the sky over Yorkshire last night.
David P

Kenny Everett was born on christmas Day.
nigel C

Snakes have no eyelids.
Paul N

The world's 1st ATM was opened by Reg Varney at Barclays Bank in Enfield.
duncan H

In the financial year 2004-5, 10 people bought train tickets for Watford West station. This is despite the fact that the station is ?temporarily closed?, and no trains have served it since 1996, and part of the railway track leading up to it has been lifted.
Greg D

Hufu (the tasty tofu-based alternative to human flesh) is no longer available, but it was not a hoax as some thought.
Cathy B

The Big One at Blackpool is not the tallest rollercoaster in Europe as claimed - Silver Star at Europa Park is.
Roger C

Pigs have more tastebuds than humans.
Kim A

Dolphins cannot differentiate between water and solid food.
Richard D

It's not 'Humble pie' but 'umble pie'. The edible innards leftover from the kitchen which the lesser members of the staff were given to eat.
Philip M

Daniel Day-Lewis broke ribs doing the film My Left Foot, by hunching over in a wheelchair while getting into character
tim P

50% of people survive a fall from a height of 3 stories.
helen W

Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes.
Lisa D

George Washington had wooden false teeth.
Helen O

Mosquitoes like to bite people who have recently eaten bananas.
Alison F

Latest predictions are that the Earth will be destroyed by the Sun in 7.5 Billion Years (a Red Giant by then).
Peter W

Pigeons explode when fed baking soda.
Chris B

The Nhs is the world's fourth largest employer.
Nicola R

The answer to life, the universe, and everything is 42.
Roger N

The maximum recorded lifespan of a leech is 27 years.
Steve L

MySpace was purchased in 2005 for $580 million by Rupert Murdoch creator of a media empire that includes 20th Century Fox and the Fox television stations.
Marc F

Erinsborough is an anagram of neighbours!
Sally P

The Eros statue in Picaddilly isn't a statue of Eros.
Norman P

Napoleon didn't like his women to wash.
Geoff D

There is not one orange food that is native to Britain.
Jo B

Each unit on the Richter Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32, so, a 6 is 32 times more powerful than a 5.
john M

The Isle of Man has the largest water-wheel in the world.
Dave B

Cracking your knuckles doesn't cause arthritus.
Alexandra C

Kangaroo in aboriginal means 'I dont know'. When English settlers pointed them out to the aborigines they replied gungaru or kangaroo, the English took this to be the name of the animal by mistake.
neil O

ODEON = Oscar Deutscher Entertains Our Nation
Dean H

Sherlock Holmes NEVER said, "Elementary, my dear Watson."
julie E

The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long.
Jason S

Mongolians NEVER wash because they believe that all things on earth - including water - contain spiritual beings, and cannot therefore be soiled or tainted.
Daniel T

5000 years of civilisation and all we get is 2 days off a week!
Shawn D

Frogs predict earthquakes.
Sally H

The new voice ok KITT from Knight Rider is Val Kilmer.
Anish M

Americans eat on average, 18 acres of pizza every day.
Neil C

The speed of light has been broken by two German physicists, meaning Einstein's theory is incorrect.
Chris C

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of its mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.
Joanne M

Knock, knock jokes began in 1068.
Matthew B

A bean has more DNA per cell than a human cell.
Paul A

Mageirocophobia is the fear of cooking.
Graham F

If you reverse the letters of your first name, then add the four digits of your year of birth, you will get a meaningless jumble of letters and numbers.
Nick, Dublin

It only costs u £400 to go bankrupt.
john B

The celebratory song 'Happy Birthday' is protected by copyright until 2030!
Daniel M

There are no great white sharks in captivity.
darren C

Chewing gum stops your eyes watering when chopping onions.
joshua M

The chinese army is the world's secong largest employer.
Nicola R

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that Noah took 2 of each animal onto his ark! This misconception comes from the childrens song - Who Built The Ark!
Adele B

The original screenplay was called "The School of Rock", and it was later shortened to "School of Rock". However, the opening credits had already been designed and partially shown in theaters with the word "The" in the title. Director Linklater decided not to digitally remove the extra word from the credits.
Martin S

The Beatles featured two left handed members, Paul, whom everyone saw holding his Hoffner bass left handed, and Ringo, whose left handedness is at least partially to blame for his 'original' drumming style.
Tracey C

Turkey produces half of the world's legal supply of opium
Sharon C

Penguins and polar bears do not live in the same place, regardless of what the cartoons would have us believe.
Janette W

The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body The female initiates sex by ripping the males head off. ("Honey, I'm home. What the....")
Ricky C

Did you know that the bow end of a large supertanker comes to a stop before the aft end when it has entered a lock? This is because of all the iron plates are rivetted and they always have some play in them.
Barbara, Charleston

Did you know that, in the middle of a dry Canadian winter, that you can blow a light bulb (from the static build-up) when you switch the light on if you are wearing a nylon nightie?
Babsie, Ottawa

I love you in iceland is - Ég elska Þig
Angela S

Crabs teeth are in their stomachs!
Amy, Hull

The Stephens Island Wren is the only known animal to be made extinct by a single individual. It was a cat called Tiddles.
Richard, Stroud

Hen's have 4 knees
Paul C, Chorley

If you jumped off the highest point of the empire state building you would have enough time to eat 3 chocolate digestives before you hit the ground.
Joe, Reading

The difference between theory and reality is much greater in reality than it is in theory.
Retowesaca, Santee, CA

Photons take 20,000 years to travel from the centre of the sun to the surface. This means that the average speed of light inside the sun is 4 metres per hour. There are also photons in the Sun that were formed five billion years ago, but have still not made it out.
Eric, Huddersfield

Many people who work with pineapples have their fingerprints "dissolved" by enzymes on the pineapple skin.
Richard , Belfast

What is the richest country in the world? Ireland, 'cos it's capital is always Dublin.
Pammy, Blackburn

Trees actually make a sound as they grow. However, they do this so slowly the sound is inaudible. Sped up, it is a fairly loud cracking/stretching noise. That's true.
Chantal, Burton-On-Trent

The plastic fixings at the ends of shoelaces are called 'aglets'. And their true purpose is sinister.
Jonathon, Perth

Things we didnt know has 866 possible anagrams, of those about 20 make sense
Tom

A Slovenian TV programme that tried to prove top models were brainless bimbos was scrapped after a beauty queen turned out to have a higher IQ than a nuclear physicist.
Edward, London

The wife of Napoleon, Josephene, was generally considered rude and aloof because she neither ate with, nor smiled at anyone, esp in public. She also very rarely spoke to anyone. The real reason was that she was embarrassed to death by her hideously rotten teeth.
Gabriel, Cape Town

The number of steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower is 1652
Hugh G. Rection, London

All toilets flush pitched at E Flat
Stuff, Chelmsford

Chris, Downham Market is wrong... he has stated a common misconception amongst nerdy fact finders quiz wizards and booky worms... only royal mail postal workers delivering a declaration of war can legally run a red light... and these days will more than likely be a postal and courier soldier from the RLC who deal with the BFPO's (British Forces Post Office) which is still a branch of the royal mail. Thus it is more likely that the vehicle which legally passes through that red light just before war is declared is going to be a British Army general service landrover... so there :-P
2lt McCrystal, Belfast

WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets.
Carey, Chorley

It is a known fact that dogs hate it when you blow in their face. So why is it that the first thing a dog does, when he gets in your car, is put his head out of the window?
Nathan , Pontypridd

The famous Tarzan call sounds exactly the same whether it's played forwards or backwards.
Andrzej, Salisbury

The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9000 years old!
Jack, Burton-Upon-Trent

It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.
Stuart, Birchanger

The Bank Of England make a £100,000,000 note.
Abiy W

Did you know that the driest place on earth is not a desert as you would expect but it is Antartica as certain areas have had no rain in over 2 million years.
David, Stockport

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Neil D

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time television were: Fred and Wilma Flintstone
Amy S

Red cars are faster than all other cars. The paint has less additives, making it lighter.
James, Glastonbury

The bust measurement of Marie Antoinette (guillotined in the French Revolution) was the same as that of Jayne Mansfield. It's true!
Geoffrey, Brecon

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.
Roger O

In Texas, it's against the law for anyone to have a pair of pliers in his or her possession.
Glenda P

You can fail a drugs test if you eat too many poppy seeds
Joanne P

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
Gillian H

The average chocolate bar has 8 insect legs in it.
Tom K

There is no corn in corn beef. It is salt. The salt used to preserve the beef was in the shape of an ear of corn.
Craig C

When Thomas Eddison died in 1941, Henry Ford was said to have captured his dying breath in a bottle.
Sharon R

The fastest speed recorded by a rabbit is 43.96mph.
Carl F

Honey bees rarely fly backwards.
Maria C

It takes 30 minutes to boil an Ostrich Egg.
John D

Hugo Boss manufactured the 1936 line of nazi uniforms..!!!
Rosie P

Most lipstick contains some fishscales.
Sarah E

A giraffe's heart is 2 feet (0.6 meters) long and weighs about 25 pounds (11 kilograms), and pumps approximately 16 gallons of blood per minute, pumping all the way up to its head along that great neck gives the giraffe very high blood pressure. Its lungs can hold 12 gallons (55 litres) of air!
Maria, Brighton

I can play bass guitar, but can't play air bass guitar.
Susan S

All polar bears are left-handed.
Jason S

The answer to this riddle by Sara, Branson MO USA: A cowboy rides into town on Thursday, stays for 3 days, and leaves on Thursday. How'd he do it? Answer: Thursday is the name of the cowboy's horse.
Andrzej, Salisbury, UK

In Atlanta its illegal to tie your giraffe to a telegraph pole...
Hannah C

The numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666!
Samantha S

A rainbow is a complete circle if viewed from the air
Lynn D

New York's Central Park is nearly twice the size of the entire country of Monaco.
ROGER S

About 30% of Americans admit to talking to their dogs or leaving messages on their answering machines for their dogs while they are away.
Ian C

Cows cannot climb stairs
Gillian H

A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.
Sarah E

The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella
elliot L

Because of slow mutations in the human genome, it is believed that the six-fingered humans will outnumber their five-fingered brothers by 2412.
Charley N

Montreal is actually closer to Europe than it is to Vancouver
Anna M

Carrots were in fact purple originally.
Jason M

Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Marion Moon
Wayne R

Giraffes are mute
Frances L

World Water Day is March 22nd every year. Random!
Sarah M

a group of kangaroos is called a mob. AND... Leuttuce is a member of the sunflower family!
Aleks

The word 'FACETIOUS' (unsuitably jocular, flippant) is the only word in the English language that uses the five vowels in the correct order.
Mavis T

Petrol doesn't burn, its the fumes that burn! =O
Sian G

I was supposed to go to a conference on "Apathy" but I couldn't be bothered. The clairvoyant's show tonight has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
Alan, Chester

During Shakespeare's life, deaths outnumbered births in the UK
Philip B

It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament!!
Hayley C

Air Force One cost £200m to build and costs £28000 an hour to run.
John B

Where does your lap go, when you stand up?
Mary M

Camels are the only animal with bi-curved red blood cells.
Duncan A

In the space of one year in the eighties three different songs with the same title reached the top ten in the UK charts, two of them even becoming number ones.
Scott Y

The earth doesn't spin on a perfect axis. It wobbles
Kieran B

The French word for 'hedgehog' is 'un herisson'. The French also use this word for a chimney sweep's brush and a 'prickly', unsociable person.
David H

Rats are the only animals that can't vomit. That's why rat poisin works.
Noel O

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Periwinkle Blue
Jason C

You can't burn yourself on an egg shell, no matter how hot it gets!
Eleanor C

A snail can sleep for 3 years
Mark K

The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards
Kathryn H

Aztec emperor Montezuma drank 50 golden goblets of hot chocolate every day. It was thick, dyed red and flavored with chili peppers.
Paula C

The average human body contains enough: iron to make a 3 inch nail, sulfur to kill all fleas on an average dog, carbon to make 900 pencils, potassium to fire a toy cannon, fat to make 7 bars of soap, phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads, and water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
Paula C

A prisoner once escaped from jail by colouring in his white overalls green and pretending he was a doctor.
Alan N

In Australia, the smallest coin in use is 5c, so if they charge $9.99 you have to pay $10,cos they cant give you any change!
Hannah G

On average, 100 people choke to death on ball point pens every year.
Rhuari B

You can't create a folder called 'con' in Microsoft Windows!
Liam C

Did you know your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Loumez , Brentwood, Essex

It is illegal to have a duel in Uruguay unless both protagonists are registered blood donors
Arkranger, Sale

Winston Churchill smoked cigars and drank a bottle of whiskey a day but lived for over 90 years
Neil L

Concorde was not the first commercial supersonic jet - this honour belongs to the very similar Russian built Concordski (a Tupulov 144).
Nicholas M

The holes in swiss cheese are created by Propionibacter which changes milk tto cheese. the reaction creates CO2 which produces the bubbles! Bet you didn't know that!
James P

Having your wisdom teeth out really, REALLY does hurt. I know you already know this, I am just feeling sorry for myself having just had it done. For the second time. With complications. For the second time.
Kristel O

The man wearing the very first top hat caused quite a commotion after stepping out into the street. In the ensuing melee, a man was pushed through a shop window.
Owen E

An espresso has less caffeine than a cup of coffee
James T

Ernie Wise made the first mobile phone call in the UK on January 1, 1985
Graham S

Grover Cleveland was the only US president to serve non consecutive terms.
Martin B

The littlest flower of the world is the Australian "Wolffia Arrhiza". Its flowers grow into a small cavity and is the size of this comma ",".
Guillaume F

The bible, the world's best selling book, is also the worlds most shoplifted book.
Alex B

Every year more than 2500 left handed people are killed from using right handed products
Anna C

Sea Otters have the densest fur in the animal kingdom -- a million hairs per square inch!
Cerian T

SOS, the distress signal does not mean save our souls. the only reason it is SOS is because it is the easiest two bits of morse code to remember. everyone will remember ...- - -... but if it was HELP then it would be .... . .-.. .- -. which is alot to remember.
Andrew

If you mix orange juice with milk together in one drink; you will throw up. Or is that just me that suffers from this?
Ashley W

Nature has it's own word for vegetarian, prey.
Henrik, Trollhättan

Margarine is actually grey. Its coloured yellow to make it look more like butter.
Nicola C

Dolphins sleep with one eye open!
Brian B

There are 23 doctors in the U.S. called Dr. Doctor, and one called Dr. Surgeon!
Shona, Christchurch

It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in which it is produced!
Shona L

At take off power a Rolls-Royce Trent jet engine consumes an amount of air equivalent to that contained within a squash court every second.
Christopher H

If you were to compress all the empty space in atoms, every single person in the world would fit into the space occupied by an apple :)
Andrew M

The normal static electricty shock that zaps your finger when you touch a doorknob is usually between 10,000 and 30,000 volts!
David R

When pregnant rabbits cannot find any sources of energy, they re-absorb their unborn baby to keep on living.
Catherine H

Anteaters prefer termites to ants.
Jon R

A diamond is the hardest natural substance on earth, but if it is placed in an oven and the temperature is raised to about 763 degrees Celsius (1405 degrees Fahrenheit), it will simply vanish, without even ash remaining. Only a little carbon dioxide will have been released.
Geoff M

A giraffe neck has the same number of bones as a human neck
Paul W

Anti-gravity can be achieved with a fork, a spoon and a matchstick!
Roddy A

Apparently, the 'real' shelf life of spam is limited by how long it takes the can to rust! Eurgh!
Ben C

The "Black Box" in Aircraft aren't actually black, they're bright orange, so they can easily be found in a wreckage. Also they are no where near the cockpit, they are right at the back above the cabin ceiling.
Christopher O

In Somalia it is illegal to carry old gum on the tip of your nose.
Matthew B

The eiffel tower shrinks 6" in winter
Mizz

Why don't Penguins feet freeze? Answer: The system that stops a penguin's foot from freezing is very elaborate and sophisticated and employs two mechanisms. The first one allows the penguin to control the rate of blood flowing to its feet by varying the diameter of arterial vessels supplying the blood. In cold conditions the flow is reduced, when it is warm the flow increases. The second mechanism takes the form of 'counter current heat exchangers' at the top of the legs. The arteries, which supply warm blood and oxygen to the penguin's feet break up into many small vessels which are closely linked to similar numbers of venous vessels bringing cold blood back from the feet. So, when heat is lost from the arterial vessels, the venous vessels running in the opposite direction pick it up and carry it back through the body, rather than out through the feet. This means that in the very remote regions of the skin, cells get oxygen but heat isn't lost through this skin.
Simon N

Dress down the smarmy "barista" at your overpriced local coffee shop with the fact that the word "panini" is in fact already a plural. So you can't have one panini or two paninis. The singular is panino.
Benjamin L

Snails have over 20,000 teeth each. Scary huh my advice is watch out for them could be dangerous!
Martin P

Fainting is your body's way of protecting yourself: If you haven't got enough blood or high enough blood pressure to get blood into your brain, you faint so that you fall over and its easier for the blood to get to your brain (a wonder boys don't faint more)!
Juliet A

People often mistype the word "thanks" as "thnaks" because their right hand works faster than their left!
Emma L

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War 2 killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
Andrew K

In Nepal they eat oranges without peeling them...
Joe C

Did you know that every day more money is printed for Monopoly than for the US Treasury.
Andrew S

If love is blind, why does lingerie cost so much?
ARL, London

Pearls melt in vinegar
George, Cyprus

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game
Rhys Davies, Newport

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite
Rhys Davies, Newport

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
Rhys Davies, Newport

Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound
Rhys Davies, Newport

The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.
Rhys Davies, Newport

A herd of buffalo can move only as fast as the slowest buffalo, and when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular culling of the weakest members. In much the same way the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, we all know, kills off brain cells, but naturally it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, constantly making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.
Rhys Davies, Newport

Your feet begin to smell like feet when you are four months old, before this they just smell like the rest of you.
C, Lisburn

The average American eats at McDonalds more than 1,800 times in their life.
Tom, Bath

Richard A George is mistaken. Glass is not a liquid, it is an amorphous solid (it doesn't form crystals when it solidifies).
Thursdaykat, Margate

did you know that 4 people die each year from falling gravestones?
Hannah, Bury St Edmunds

Ancient Egyptian artefacts that look like airplanes have been scaled up and have been proven to be perfectly formed and would be capable of flying. Where did they see these things?
Liam, Belfast

Your fingernails and hair do NOT continue to grow when your dead. Your skin dries up and shrinks making it appear that they do.
Kittycat, Belper, Derbys

According to most cartoons, fishes enjoy swimming through keyholes
Chimpy , SWINDON!

A Ham Sandwich is better than Eternal Happiness. Nonsense you say? Think about it: They say that nothing is better than Eternal Happiness. They also say that a Ham Sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore, a Ham Sandwich is better than Eternal Happiness.
Andman

If a Sheep falls over on its back, it cant get up again by itself! I've seen it with my own eyes and rescued one once.
Mark Leak, Boston, Lincs

What would happen if ET and Mr T got married?
Hannah, Bury St Edmunds

"If you spit off the top of the Eiffel Tower it gains enough speed to knock someone out, and it the glob's big enough, kill them." Nope, it reachs terminal velocity and at that speed would only mildly annoy you. They tried this with a pound coin and an artificial skull on TV and would only cause some bruising!
Alex, LDN - Corrector of stuff!

Royal Mail vehicles are the only vehicles that can legally jump red lights! Emergency service vehicles are not legally allowed to but can if they don't cause accidents. Bu there is an old unchanged law that isn't well known that states NOTHING is allowed to hold up the Royal Mail... Good job they don't know that, white van drivers are bad enough as it is!
Chris, Downham Market

It's actually illegal to eat Mince Pies on Christmas day...
Hayley, Isle of Wight

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Katie, Runcorn

Your eyes are the same size from when you are born until the day you die. However, your nose and ears never stop growing!
Poolio, Solihull

Supposedly if you mix together petroleum jelly and the cream filling of a Hostess Twinkie, the concoction will glow in the dark.
Mark, Boston

On average, pandas live 15 years longer in captivity than they do in the wild
Jackie, Somerset

During world war 1 there were 9 reported cases of servicemen with three testicles! Bizarre!
Ben, Chippenham

A white rhino takes its name from the Afrikaans word widj which means wide, because of its wide mouth. The black rhino has a smaller, beak-like mouth and is only called black to contrast the 'white'. Both are, of course, grey.
Michelle, Seaford

Albatross (big seagull kinda things) can fly while sleeping!
Dan, Harrogate

Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are re-used in vein transplant surgery.
Barbara , LONDON

Hitler and Napoleon both had only one testicle.
Barbara , London

A man's beard grows fastest when he anticipates sex.
Barbara , London

Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz
Barbara , London

The screwdriver was invented before the screw.
Babs , London

There is no mention of Adam and Eve eating an apple in the Bible.
Anna , London

In 2003, a 9-year old girl in India was married to a stray dog in a ritual to ward off an evil spell.
Angela , London

The more Emmental cheese, the more holes, but the more holes, the less Emmental...
Victor, Biarritz

What is a group of jellyfish called? A smuck!
nathalie thomson, tooting, london

An amish man and his son are in the city and they enter a large building. They watch as some metal doors open up and a large lady enters. Above the metal doors is a small selection of lights arranged into numbers. The Father and son watch as the numbers go all the way up to 20 and then slowly back down again. When the numbers reachs 1 again the doors open and a blonde haired thin girl appears and the Father says "Quick son, get your mother".
Hannah, Chippenham, UK

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.
ali black, southampton

Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
ali black, southampton

Pac-man was origanally going to be called puck-man when a member of the head office realised how easy it could be vandilised. (and if you have'nt realised you take off part of the 'P').
ali black, southampton

In the 40's, the Bich pen was changed to Bic for fear that Americans would pronounce it 'Bitch.'
ali black, southampton

The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
ali black, southampton

If you take a starfish out of the water and it dries up and dies you can bring it back to life by putting it back in the water. (e.g you can leave it out for a couple days).
ali black, southampton

If in the SL client, you change the preferences, lowering the memory of the graphic card, the number of particles, or the details, you will crash less and have less lag.
Lucy W

Ever wondered why the Statue of Liberty is green? It is actually coated in copper so when it was first built it was all gold and shiny, but it has tarnished just like old copper pipes do and turned green.
iwoot fan, London

Las Vegas Casinos are not permited to have clocks in the main casino room.
Chris, Birmingham

In a bull ring where the bull goes mad and there's the guy with the red cape, they make the bull go mad by tying rope around his testicles.
Ali Black, southampton

If Prince Charles becomes King, he will be known as King George VII.
Alex Brownlee, Whitley Bay

A Starfish can turn its Stomach inside out.
Alex Brownlee, Whitley Bay

The legendary band ZZ TOP derived its name from ZigZag rolling papers and POT spelled backwards.
David Nauth, Weybridge

The longest pace name is "Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudyaya- mahadiloponoparatanarajthaniburiromudomrajniwesmahasatarn- amornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamphr". This is bangkok in Thailand!
t.jones, IOM

Llama spit can travel up to 15 ft.
t.jones, IOM

A lock of Elvis Presley's hair sold for $115,120.
t.jones, IOM

It would take about 788,832,000 2-inch sticky notes to encircle the globe.
t.jones, IOM

More than 64,00 people in the US are 100 years old or older.
t.jones, IOM

In the movie "Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith", the Wookie battle cries are from a recording of a car race, and star ships breaking up in space are dogs howling and barking.
t.jones, IOM

The worlds oldest mold free twinkie was over 30 years old.
t.jones, IOM

You can fry an egg on a hot side walk when it reaches 158 degrees fahrenheit.
t.jones, IOM

The worlds longest cake was 8,303 ft long, the same lenth as 28 football fields!
t.jones, IOM

Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
t.jones, IOM

A dog can make about 100 different facial expressions.
t.jones, IOM

1 million seconds = 11 days, 13 hours, 46 minutes, 40 seconds!
t.jones, IOM

Peanut butter can be converted into a diomond.
t.jones, IOM

The first ballpoint pens sold for $12.50 each.
T.jones, IOM

Caterpillars have about 3,200 more muscles than you do!
T.Jones, IOM

It took 5 to 6 million years for the Grand Canyon to form.
T.Jones, IOM

lemonade is made from artificial lemons and table polish is made from real lemons.
T.Jones, IOM

I'm sorry to say that I have just found out something awful. Chocolate is poisonous! Fortunately the lethal dose is around 24 pounds so you dont have to empty your cupboards of it just yet... For other animals though the picture is slightly more grim, with just a chocolate covered raisin being enough to take down a small bird, but still what a way to go!
Tom, West Kirby

The first item put up for sale on EBAY was a broken laser pointer.... which sold for 14 dollars.
Nikki Richardson, London

I have named my friend's bump nerys!!!
lisa, cardiff

A cowboy rides into town on Thursday, stays for 3 days, and leaves on Thursday. How'd he do it?
Sara, Branson MO USA

The barnacle is the most 'well endowed' animal in relation to its body size. Its 'part' can be more than six times the length of its own body. To put it in proportion, if humans were the same you could stand at the bottom of nelsons column and tip his hat with your...
Mark, Manchester

Dolphins are the only mammal, other than humans, to have sex for pleasure.
J, Jersey

You shouldn't get a Gupi and a real guniea pig and exspect them to be friends, because male guniea pigs begin to hump your Gupi, and I wouldn't want to clean that up.
TheRomantiqeOne, warrington

If you always expect the unexpected then you will ever expect the expected, therefore, the expected will become the uexpected, so that just prooves that you can never win in life, confuzzaling eh?
Jessica, Brightlingsea

Gambling is now outlawed in Second Life, however in many places we still find gambling devices.
Clark A

In July, 145 people made more than 5000 USD, playing Second Life. All the stats are available here: http://secondlife.com/whatis/economy_stats.php
Susana S

If you spit off the top of the Eiffel Tower it gains enough speed to knock someone out, and it the glob's big enough, kill them.
Chloe Wootton, Reading

The Darwin Awards are all about the best ways of dying, from the original to the downright funky... I think you can see the catch in winning.
Chris P, Blackpool

Everyone in the Government has an ID number (eg. 326) but no one has 007 because of James Bond!
Chloe , Reading, Berkshire

Forty is the only number in the English language that has all of its letters in alphabetical order.
Harry Kind, Carmarthenshire

Four is the only number in the English language to have the same number of letters in it as its numerical value!
Harry Kind, Carmarthenshire

Something that will make you think.... Say I'm travelling along a motorway in a car (any car) at 70 miles per hour for example... what is the one part of the car which at any one point of the journey is completely stationary? ... The point of the wheel in contact with the road of course! ... If it helps to imagine it, think of what the bottom half a caterpillar track looks like when a tractor is moving forward. Made you think :- P
Chris Pendlebury, Blackpool

Elvis is not really dead. Or if he is, he didn't die when they said he did. His name was spelled wrong on the gravestone and they never changed it because he was known to be very superstitious. His ex-wife changed his will (a legal impossibility). Consider that shot of his body in the coffin. He looked young, and fit, as he did in the 50's, not the overweight, clearly ill star we saw on his last tour. Also, the coffin was very, very heavy; far heavier than it should have been. Why? Could it have been a fan unit to keep the wax model cool? I don't believe he has been seen in Burger King or McDonald's, but he definitely did not die in 1977.
Beverley Kerry, Derby

Jelly babies were originally known as 'Peace Babies' as they were first made in 1918 at the end of the 1st World War.
Jill, Belfast

In the very early stages of foetus growth, human babies develop gills which are then reabsorbed at a later stage of development.
Zoe, London

For 2000 years 666 has been the symbol of the dreaded anti-christ who will come to rule the world before the last judgement. For many it's an unlucky number & even the EU parliament leaves seat 666 vacant. Bu,t it's the wrong number! In 2005 a new translation of the earliest copy of the book of revelations clearly shows it to be 616 not 666. If this number is correct it will not amuse those who spent a small fortune avoiding the old one. In 1999, the Moscow transport department picked a new number for the jinxed 666 route it was 616...doh!
Taz, harrogate

arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth!
Adele, Ipswich

Avocados can be fatal. A friend had a parrot that somehow got out and flew off. It landed in a neighbour's garden and that neighbour had a barbeque party, with avocado salad. They fed the bird, and it loved the salad. Then it died. Apparently one of few things poisonous to parrots is avocado.
Lena O, Gothenburg, Sweden

I bought me a Mopod, a pink dancing devil. And went to a funeral... I did turn my own phone off, but someone in the aisle had his on, silent. I saw the devil starting its happy twirling and managed to shove it into my handbag.
Lena, Gothenburg, Sweden

Bookkeeper is the only word in the english language with three consecutive double letters.
Hilary, London

Alicia Silverstone appears in episode 80 of The Wonder Years. And Juliette Lewis appears in 24, 34 and 36 as Wayne's girlfriend. Marilyn Manson was not in The Wonder Years, either as Marilyn or Brian.
Hilary, London

If you get an 'ice cream headache' from eating something very cold too quickly (like Ice cream for example!), push your tongue up onto the roof of your mouth. This will relieve the headache by quickly warming the cooled flow of blood to your brain, and stopping the cause of the coldness.
Hilary, London

All of the suspension bridges in the world decrease in strength by 14% each year. The rope suspensions are thousands of smaller wires wound together. This was discovered when scientists placed Mics on the end of one and heard a "ping!" every 14 hours... give or take.
Anthony, Liverpool

The world constipation record is 102 days.
Jonathan Dinkin, London

Once a tree gets to a certain age it stops producing oxygen and actually produces carbon dioxide.
Beki McDermott, colchester

The differnce between a cake and a biscuit is that a cake goes hard when stale, and a biscuit soft.
Beki McDermott, colchester

I would give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
Del, Gillingham. Kent

Eddie Van Halen's son is called Wolfgang Van Halen.
Roger, London

Did you know that when you get married, your wife actually moves in with you. I was shocked to say the least.
Simon, Birmingham

I don't have proof, but...from my experience if you are left handed, when you concentrate you stick out your tongue to concentrate. Go on, watch us lefties and see if we are doing it when we are playing football or concentrating on an interesting report. Speaking of reports, I should be doing one now, but I have been sitting here all day reading this page. If I get sacked I want one of the helicopters on this site (one quite simply isn't enough)!
Simon, Birmingham

Here's a useless bit of information should you ever visit Paris. In the 1800s there was a terrace of 3 houses. One was occupied by a poet, the second by the inventor of the guillotine who used dead sheep to perfect his invention and the third by a nutty inventor who was always seen at 7pm taking his pet for a walk. Nothing unusual in that you might think, until I tell you the pet was a lizard on a lead!
Teresa, Gt. Yeldham

Science has only very recently this year, 2007, worked out the scientific equation that allows a Bumblebee's to fly! Prior to this, and according to everything we know of the facts of science behind flight, it was actually thought aerodynamically impossible for Bumblebees to fly, yet obviously they do do it everyday!
Trevor D, East Grinstead, West Sussex

Most of the Brazil nuts you eat at Christmas time actually come from Bolivia and not Brazil. As the chief crop producer of these nuts, Bolivian officials recently championed an unsuccessful campaign to have the world nut industry change their products name internationally to Bolivia nuts if you please!
Trevor D, East Grinstead West Sussex

In the picture of the last supper St Andrew is the only person without a cup. Birmingham City, whose home is St Andrews, also have no cups.
Simon, Birmingham

The average car horn beeps in the key of F.
laura, derby

King Henry VIII was so fond of cock fighting he had a cock fighting pit built on the site of the present-day 10 downing street.
Will, birmingham

Can a match box? no but a tin can!
Oli Waldock, Huntingdon

All Polar Bears are left handed, according to current scientific thought on the subject! How in the hell do they know this as a fact?
Trevor, EAST GRINSTEAD,WEST SUSSEX

I wish I'd known about these stickers. I had already "cow-printed" my fridge freezer, chest freezer, dishwasher and washing machine with black hammerite. It took a couple of hours but I was fairly drunk, and I absolutely adore cows, obviously.
joyce tribble, anstruther, fife

Do you know the best way to remove a splinter or piece of glass from your hand or foot? Use a plaster and put the sticky part over the entry point. Leave for 48-72 hours, remove the plaster and the unwanted intruder will come away on the sticky bit. Painless and easier than using a pin!
Teresa, Gt. Yeldham

My old dog was allergic to beef.
Edward, Nuneaton

Light can travel over 7 times around the equator in 1 sec, or from the Sun to Earth in 8 minutes
Luke Mehdi, Bristol

If you jump off a bridge there is a 33.3333333% chance you will live, no matter how high.
bob, new york

The only bird in existence known to be capable of flying backwards is the humming bird.
Sam, Nottingham

In 1987 a 1400-year-old lump of still-edible cheese was unearthed in Ireland.
Oliver Lane, Shrewsbury

Jaffa Cakes don't contain any Orange and are officially classed as cakes and not biscuits despite being made by a biscuit company.
Greg McQueen, Liverpool

Up until fairly recently it was thought that the Earth had one moon, where as nowadays it has been proven that Earth has up to 7 moons as a moon is in fact a celestial body, hence why we can say there are so many more moons of Earth than first thought.
Greg McQueen, Liverpool

WD40 kills wasps - dead!
Becky, St Neots

Mongolian Gerbils often look like they are trying to 'hump' each other (even if they are of the same gender), this is actually their way of spreading their scent onto another Gerbil...so no your Gerbils aren't Homosexual after all.
Louisa Holloway, Clacton-on-sea

A small seaside town in the South East of England, Clacton-on-sea, is home to over 2 million evil grannies, they get about in biddie mobiles and usually test their upmost ignorance by riding these beasts in the road often causing problems for car drivers who must roll along behind doing just under 10 miles per hour. You can often see many an old biddie crammed on a bus shaking their sticks at anyone under 80.
Louisa Holloway, Good old Clacton-on-sea

If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create an explosion that is equal to an atomic bomb.
andy heath, london

The first plant to be cultivated for something other than food was the cannabis plant.
Stevey Peats, Clermiston

The white stuff that pigeons excrete is not poo. It is, in fact, urine.
Steve, Guernsey

If a predator grabs hold of a lobster's leg, it can simply detach it and grow another, and their blood is also transparent.
George Meixner, Sheering

My cat licks his paw is you scratch his back.
MattyWaters, Barkingside

We have fleas in our office and we have called one leonard....
Nicola and Lisa, Cardiff

We can make much more money by depositing money in a SL Bank than in RL banks, even if the risk is much greater.
Richard J

Put washing up liquid in your kettle with the water and boil it. Fun!!!! xxx
Weini

Europe is the only continent without a desert.
Will, Ware

Most dinosaurs were no bigger than chickens.
Will, Ware

On a classic monopoly board, the square that is most landed on is Trafalgur Square.
Will, Ware

No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven times.
Will, Ware

A snail has about 25000 teeth.
Will, Ware

Ronald Reagan, one of the most vocal proponents of "family values" in the last fifty years, was the only divorced man to attain the US Presidency?
Catriona, Deepest, Darkest Devon!

It seems that in Second Life many "women" are in reality men.
Paul G

If you hit Crt+Alt+D in your SL Viewer, you will get two new sort of options: the client and the server. The first is very useful.
Jane B

There are blue berries and blueberries. All blue berries are blue, but not all blue berries are blueberries!
Helen Conacher, Dunstable.

Did you know that the largest thing that a blue whale can swallow is actually a grapefruit?
Jordan

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Sarah H, London

Colgate faces big obstacles marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command Go hang yourself.
Sarah H, London

The first Harley Davidson motorcycle was built in 1903, and used a tomato can for a carburetor.
Sarah H, London

Poison Oak and Poison Ivy are members of the cashew family.
Carla Whitmore, Rothehram

Some people think the $1 dollar bill has the sign of the illuminati because it has so many 13s on it. It has 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 arrows, 13 steps and an olive branch with 13 leaves.
GWBush, Whitehouse

Padgism is a religion based around atheism and pineapples, founded in Merseyside in the UK in 2006. Padgists are know to not care about stuff and take a lot of abuse about the 'sillyness' of their religion. I am a Padgist.
Liam, Wirral, Merseyside

The Naked Mole Rat is the only cold-blooded mammal. They can move backwards as fast as they move forwards and the skin of a naked mole rat lacks a key neurotransmitter called Substance P which means they feel no pain.
George Meixner, Sheering

There were 378,000,000,000 cigarettes sold JUST in the United States in 2005 - that is the lowest number since 1951. (That is 1305 cigarettes per person per year.) *Cough cough*
George Meixner, Sheering

A cat always lands on its feet. Toast always lands butter side down Tie a bit of toast, butter side up, to the back of a cat. Drop it. It will never land, but spin infinately, as to land would defy one of the laws stated above. You have now created a perpetual motion machine.
Graham, Ightham

The blue whale is the largest animal ever to have lived on this planet, it's so large that you could stand a football team on it's tongue, and some of its veins are so large that you could swim down them!
Sam, Bath

The length of a mute swan is 159cm.
Steve, Preston

Re the info in the RoboQuad blurb: The crappy film from the 80s you were referring to was called 'Short Circuit'. There was also a sequel, imaginatively titled 'Short Circuit 2' a few years later.
Danny, Bristol

I love simple plan and animals and i am addicted to dancing.
lacey, pimpama

Chocolate actually contains chemicals that act like THC; the acitve consituent of cannabis. That is why people associate chocolate with a good feeling!
David, WGC

It is believed that Shakespeare was 46 around the time that the King James version of the Bible was written. In Psalms 46, the 46th word from the first word is shake and the 46th word from the last word is spear.
Philip Hammill, Kellington

There are only three types of people: those who can count, and those who can't.
Stephen, Bristol

In the first Harry Potter movie all the cars in privet drive are the same.
jess, privet drive

A few years back, the NHS published their records for numbers of cases treated, which included one under-18 year old being treated for "prolonged exposure to a weightless environment". You can look it up, if you like.
Jonathan Riches, Tewkesbury

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Edd Ridgway, Stoke

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Edd Ridgway, Stoke

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Edd Ridgway, Stoke

Baby Robins eat on average 14ft of earth worms every day
Kathryn, Bury

elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
emma anderson, norwich

The distinction between a gadget and a gizmo is that a gizmo has moving parts.
emma anderson , norwich

11 of the 12 astronauts to walk on the moon were Scouts.
Catriona, East Allington

The youngest woman to ever give birth was 5 years old.
Sterling, Irvine

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Martyn, Isle of Wight

The average life expectancy of a male in Clermiston, Edinburgh, is 21. This is due ton exceptionaly high knife and gun crime rate which is comparable to any so called ghetto anywhere in the world.
Stevey Peats, Clermiston, Edinburgh

why are wrong numbers never engaged
JOHN CROXALL, bromsgrove

the two Koreas (North and South) are technically still at war, since the Korean War (1950-53) ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty
Joshua Kim, Newport

During the Second World War, Ford Motor Company outproduced Italy in army equipment.
Joshua Kim, Newport

The British wrestler Big Daddys Real name was Shirley Crabtree
Anthony Goddard, Oxford

Soap makes a better bait for mouse traps than cheese
Anthony Goddard, Oxford

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children while living in the White House. Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. Both Presidents were shot in the head. Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy. Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln. Both were assassinated by Southerners. Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. Both assassins were known by their three names. Both names are composed of fifteen letters. Lincoln was shot at the theatre named 'Ford.' Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln' made by 'Ford.' Lincoln was shot in a theatre and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse. Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theatre. Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials. A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.
Lee Morton, Fareham

The 'Special' message tone on Nokia phones may just sound like a load of beeps, but it's actually morse code for 'SMS'!! Also, the 'Ascending' message tone is morse code for Nokia's slogan 'CONNECTING PEOPLE'!!
Lee Morton, Fareham

No president of the United States was an only child.
Matt, Lincoln

On Christmas Eve 1968, the astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission read from the first part of Genesis during a live television broadcast from lunar orbit. A Japanese correspondent staying at a Houston hotel while covering the mission called NASA Public Affairs to request a copy of the speech that the astronauts were reading. The Public Affairs official asked where he was staying and then told him that if he opened the desk drawer in his room he would find a book and that he should open it to page one. The reporter found the Gideon Bible and later reported that "NASA Public Affairs is very efficient - they had a mission transcript waiting in my hotel room."
Joshua Kim, Newport

On April 20, 1979, the then-US President Jimmy Carter was viciously assaulted by ....... a swamp rabbit
Joshua Kim, Newport

Jedi is the second largest religion in New Zealand, with the university town of Dunedin having the highest population of reported Jedi per capita.
Joshua Kim, Newport

When A G Bell invented the first telephone,it was absolutly useless until he invented the second one !.
NEIL, EBBW VALE

In a study of 200,000 ostriches over a period of 80 years, no one reported a single case where an ostrich buried its head in the sand.
Kev, New Malden

The average speed of ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 miles per year
alex walker, haddinton

The first time the natives of Papua New Guinea saw a wheel it was on an aeroplane.
Uncle Arthur, Braintree, United Kingdom

Every time you blink, you kill thousands of microscopic organisms that live on the surface of your eyes.
Yannis, Yannisland

Many species of whale have an annual buildup of earwax, adding one, two, or four layers (depending upon the species) each year.the number of layers can be counted to determine the age of the whale after its death
rachael cruttenden, swindon

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing their hands in jelly.
Hayley Picton, stanmore

When eggs start to scramble, turn off the heat. They will continue to cook on their own!
Wendy Smith, Herts

Fried bread actually tastes fabulous with orange marmalade. (Passed down my family from a generation who thought cholesterol was some sort of tropical disease!) Go mad... try it!
ani, yorkshire

'I Want One of Those' is an anagram of 'Ee, hot! Swoon, faint'
Christine, Birkenhead

The longest official word ever is the term for the chemical formula C1289 H2051 N343 O375 S8. It has 1,913 letters. I'm not motivated to type all of that but check it out - it's true!
Karen, Glasgow

Floccinaucinihilipilification is actually the longest non-medical word in the English language, one letter longer than antidisestablishmentarianism, the word commonly given the title. It means "the act of estimating something as worthless".
Karen, Glasgow

There is a medical condition called Exploding Head Syndrome. It does not, however, actually involve the head exploding. It is a loud noise perceived by the sufferer, usually when sleeping, that comes from within their own head!
Karen, Glasgow

Try this: While sitting at your desk (or wherever!) make clockwise circles with your right foot. While doing this, draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction.
Karen, Glasgow

I Want One of Those is an anagram of In awe of the toons.
Christine, Birkenhead

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
Karen , Glasgow

Recycling 1 bottle saves enough energy to have a TV on for 20 minutes, or a computer on for 15 minutes.
gina, waltham abbey

Rats don't like/eat cheese. They are never attracted to it, they love cerial and chocolates though.
gina, waltham abbey

Garlic cures the common cold when eaten raw.
gina, waltham abbey

The sky is blue due to Rayleigh scattering of particles. If you're smart and already knew that, I'm wearing new socks today. They have sheep on them.
Kelly, South Shields, oop North

The average human body contains enough: Iron to make a three inch nail, Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make seven bars of soap, Phosphorous to make 2,200 match heads and Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
Karen Murphy, Glasgow

Until the 1960s men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.
Graeme, St Albans

Sharks apparently are the only animals that never get ill. As far as is known, they are immune to every known disease including cancer.
Graeme Grimes, St Albans

The Speedometres in a US Car run anti-clockwise to Speedometres in an Australian car, which happen to run clockwise.
Aiden, Evanston, ILLINOIS USA Formally Brisbane Australia

Two animal rights activists were protesting over the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousand of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two helpless protesters to death.
Graeme Grimes, St Albans

The penalty for killing a cat, 4,000 years ago in Egypt, was death.
Graeme Grimes, St Albans

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Graeme Grimes, St Albans

Hitler slept in and could not be woken when the beaches of Normandy were stormed (10 years of Parkinsons causes mental inflexibility in all patients), and refused to send reinforcements for over 48 hours.
Graeme Grimes, St Albans

S.O.S. doesn't stand for "Save Our Ship" or "Save Our Souls" - It was chosen by an 1908 international conference on Morse Code because the letters S and O were easy to remember and just about anyone could key it and read it, S = dot dot dot, O = dash dash dash.
Graeme Grimes, St Albans

There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
Graeme Grimes, St Albans

Someone always faints on the Northern Line in morning rush hour. I think it's the same person you know.
Karate Chops, London

Termites out number humans by a factor of 10:1 worldwide!
Matt, Lincoln

Babies don't have kneecaps.
Christine, Birkenhead

This might not be that interesting but i do like my cheese and im pretty sure you didnt know that.
jack, plymouth

I once knew a girl called Jenny Taylor. For some reason she was never really happy with that name.
The Man From Peri-Lydo, Salisbury

Every time you lick a stamp you are consuming 1/10th of a calorie.
laura, horley

Frogs can't swallow without blinking.
Lucy Rowland, Woking

Sonic the hedgehog, most of us know, is a videogame character, but did you know its actually a name for a protein too? It's part of the Hedgehog (suprisingly) signalling family, vital for our growth and development.
Chi, Pontypridd

Norman "Fatboy Slim" Cook sampled Angela Bassett saying "Right here, right now." in the movie Strange Days for his hit track of the same name.
Doug, Aberdeen

What if we were all aliens placed inside of human vessels and awaiting an awakening of some sort?
Lance, Westchester

The air speed velocity of an unladen Europian swallow is approximately 24 miles per hour.
Pipsy, Cambridge

72% of facts are made up.....
Luke, Penrith, Cumbria

Robosapiens melt if left near a lamp for too long. Cats dont.
Aaron, Langley

Although the true summer solstice (as defined astronomically) in the northern hemisphere usually falls on 21st June, the latest sunset is actually a few days after this. Similarly, the earliest sunrise is a few days before. If the people who built Stonehenge appreciated this, then all the people who gather there at dawn on 21st June each year have got it wrong!
The Man From Peri-Lydo, Salisbury

There is no such thing as a perfect full-moon. This is because the requirement for this is also that of a lunar eclipse. Thus when the moon is truly 'full', you can't see it!
The Man From Peri-Lydo, Salisbury

The secret of success is not to know all the answers, but to understand the questions.
The Man From Peri-Lydo, Salisbury

Yesterday, I heard a woman repeatedly shouting willy-nilly. It turned out she was calling after her two dogs.
The Man From Peri-Lydo, Salisbury

Bananas are actually easier to peel from the bottom end. Try it and see.
The Man From Peri-Lydo, Salisbury

Dom Pérignon actually spent most of his life trying to get the bubbles out of champagne!
Daniel, Edgware

Shakespeare's younger brother Edmund, was an actor. He died at the age of 27 in 1607. Shakespeare organised a flamboyant morning funeral for him on December 31st (most unusual as funerals were held in the afternoon).
Sue, Linley

The sun we see is approximately 8.5 minutes older than it really is, due to the time it takes for its light to reach us.
Andy, Peterborough

For the common cold, wear wet socks to bed. This is a recognised naturopathic remedy to help ease fever and clear congestion. It works by drawing blood to the feet, which dramatically increases blood circulation. (Blood stagnates in the areas of greatest congestion). First warm your feet in warm water. Then soak a thin pair of socks in cold water, wring them out, and slip them on just before going to bed. Put a pair of dry wool socks over the wet ones. The wet socks should be warm and dry in the morning, and you should feel remarkably better. Only try this in a warm room. Wearing wet socks to bed would be unwise if the room was uncomfortably cold!
Vicky , Camborne

The secret of eternal life is held by cancer cells, they have a special enzyme called telomerase that prevents them from aging, and if harnessed could extend peoples lives by many years
Chris Hatcher, Epsom

Who's cruel idea was it for the word 'lisp' to have an 's' in it?
Livi, Marlborough

In the Second World War a deal was struck with Germany where by The British would not bomb Hamburg if the Nazi's agreed not to bomb Cambridge - in this way two of Europes valuable historic cities were assured survival throughout the war.
Owen, London

Bill Gates is no longer the richest man in the world. The title now belongs to a mexican called Carlos Slim whose fortune stands at approx 65 billion dollars and poor old Bill only has 56 billion
Paul, la barthe

Guess what Sue Barnard, Manchester this is a blue moon month JULY07. PS. if Tereska is reading this will you marry me ?
Oddjob, Sheffield

Margerine is infact grey...It is dyed yellow to look like butter
jay Carter, Oswaldtwistle

Baby Emma Bunton Spice is the great-great-great-great-great-great-grandniece of Archduke William Pinkley-Hogue of Staffordshire, making her 103rd in line for the throne of England
jay Carter, Oswaldtwistle

If, while 2 people are having an argument, one of them starts quoting statistics, that person will win the argument... 90% of the time.
Daniel Lesser, Edgware

38 million acres of tropical rainforests are lost per year. Up to one half of the world's species live in these areas.
kathryn, liverpool

All the numbers on a roulette wheel add up to 666!
Poolio, Solihull

If you place a can of Coke in water, it will sink, but a can of Diet Coke will float.
Poolio, Solihull

We're all familiar with the expressison "Once in a Blue Moon" - meaning "hardly ever". But do you know exactly what a Blue Moon is? It's when two full moons occur within one calendar month - which, not surprisingly, doesn't happen very often. The second full moon is the Blue Moon.
Sue Barnard, Manchester

Guaranteed cure for feeling air or sea sick: sit under a tree for a few minutes. It works every time.
Mark, London

The world's second longest place name Is the small town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch located in North Wales, and I can pronounce it :) (The worlds longest is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukaka pikimaunga horonukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu in Thailand, but I cant pronounce that)
Lauren, Abersoch

There are 100 Smurfs in the Smurf village, but only 28 have names: Papa Smurf, Lazy Smurf, Handy Smurf, Brainy Smurf, Clumsy Smurf, Tailor Smurf, Farmer Smurf, Dreamy Smurf, Harmony Smurf, Painter Smurf, Hefty Smurf, Vanity Smurf, Jokey Smurf, Smurfette, Poet Smurf, Grouchy Smurf, Baker Smurf, Greedy Smurf, Snappy Smurfling, Slouchy Smurfling, Nat Smurfling, Sasette Smurfling, Baby Smurf, Grandpa Smurf, Nanny Smurf, Clockwork Smurf, Tracker Smurf and, Wild Smurf!
Lewis G, Portsmouth

You have no sense of smell when you sleep, so people who put a sock on your nose and expect you to wake up because of the smell will be disappointed.
David Cooper, Dumfries

A Chimpanzee can learn to recognise itself in a mirror, but a Monkey cant.
David Cooper, Dumfries

The Blue Whale's whistle is the loudest noise made by an animal.
David Cooper, Dumfries

Honey is the only food that does not spoil.
David Cooper, Dumfries

The average blue whale weighs the same as 25,000 copies of Moby Dick!
Lewis G, Portsmouth

Peanuts are not actually nuts. The peanut is truely a member of the pea family (or if you want to be specific and pernickity and things like that - they are legumes).
Tricia Stewart, Dundee

If you jump into a freezing pool when you are warm it makes you thinner as your body gets a shock and needs more heat so it uses up your fat quickly!
ella, London

The word Duck is 75% Obscene.
yogi, no 1 The twilight zone

Only seven prisoners were freed during the storming of the Bastille. The seven prisoners in residence that day were: four forgers, the Comte de Solanges (inside for 'a sexual misdemeanour') and two lunatics (one of whom was an English or Irish man named Major Whyte who sported a waist-length beard and thought he was Julius Caesar).
yogi, no 1 The twilight zone

The ostrich lays the smallest egg for its size. The largest egg in comparison with the size of the bird is that of the Little Spotted kiwi. Its egg accounts for 26 per cent of its own weight: the equivalent of a woman giving birth to a six-year-old child.
yogi, no 1 The twilight zone

Contrary to popular belief, guns don't kill people; husbands that come home early do.
yogi, no 1 The twilight zone

Hermits do not suffer from peer pressure.
yogi, no 1 The twilight zone

Dragonflies have six legs but cant walk.
kathryn, liverpool

More monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed in the world.
kathryn wright, liverpool

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.
richard grundy, liverpool

If a starfish is cut into pieces, each piece will grow into a whole starfish.
David Howell, Swansea

The game of snakes & ladders was created by the 13th century poet Saint Gyandev. It was originally called 'Mokshapat.' The ladders in the game represented virtues and the snakes indicated vices. The game was played with cowrie shells and dices. Later through time, the game underwent several modifications but the meaning is the same i.e good deeds take us to heaven and evil to a cycle of re-birth.
Tracey Pashby, Scarborough

You should not inject nutmeg - it is very poisonous taken intravenously.
Jett, Austin TX

When is Donald Duck's birthday? In early cartoons his car had the licence plate '313', which in American style is March 13th!
Anthony Perrin, Leigh on Sea, Essex.

The longest word in the English dictionary is antidisastablishmentarianism.
Jack Richardson, Little Dunmow

To be slightly pedantic and correct Grace from Windsor's statement about A Psammosere. It is not a posh name for a sand dune with grass on. Psammosere actually refers to the kind of vegetation that grows on a sand dune.
yogi , No1 the twilight zone

You can only get female tortiseshell cats, also ginger cats are always toms.
Julia Alcock, Norwich

The number of the beast is not 666 it is 616; a silly translation error!
Hamish Duff, Newcastle

Chicken tikka masala was originally made in Glasgow in the late sixties.
Hamish Duff, Newcastle

Niagara Falls was ultimately created by the melting of the final Wisconsin Glaciers!
Debby Kulchar, St Catharines Ont Canada

Why is it when you refer to fish as plural you say 'fish', but when there is more than one breed of fish they are called 'fishes'?
Kirsten, Essex

On Sunday 6th July 2008 at precisely 4 minutes and 5 second past 3 in the early hours of the morning, if you've got a digital calendar watch or clock it will read:- 03:04.05 06.07.08
Les Trussler, leicester

The largest artificial eye ever made was for a prize hereford bull, by the American Optical Company.
Susanne Croppier, Brecon

Did You Know? Black and white aren't colours. White is formed by the reflection of the full colour spectrum, whereas Black is the culmination of the entire colour spectrum. Mix the three primary colours Red, Blue and Yellow to create Black.
Lee Atkinson, Middlesbrough

Some things you may not realise are acronyms, but shockingly, they are: RADAR - RAdio Detection And Ranging; SONAR - Sound Navigation And Ranging; LASER - Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation; BMX - Bicycle Motor Cross (or X). Enjoy your new found knowledge.
Simon Nell, Reading

The early bird might get the worm but, it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
Jobbyj, London

My mum once asked me why I dont eat vegetables. I replied that I mainly eat animals that used to eat vegetables so I get them that way.
Slurpin

Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? Thought not. Don't be fooled by false sightings from gullible bird lovers. The blunt truth is this: the pigeons you see all over the city are the baby pigeons. The adult has a wingspan of 8-12 feet. When they reach adulthood they fly to remote mountain fastnesses and live off the occasional tourist. I do not, however, subscribe to the theory that the adults will one day return en masse to wreak vengeance on us a la The Birds
Simon Nell, Reading

the worlds most shoplifted book is the bible
Ceara Holden, Millport

A chicken and an egg are lying in bed, the chicken looking very smug and the egg with a bit of a strop on, then mumbles 'well i guess we know the answer to THAT question'.
Jo, Reading

It takes 2.84 seconds for a coin to fall from the top of the eiffel tower to the bottom negating wind resistance.
vicki, cardiff

Loch Lomond was the last place in Britain to come out of the Ice Age. It was still under ice when every where else had melted
Hilary Sutherland, Greenock

Colonel Sanders (the original recipe chicken bloke) once placed a curse on a Japanese baseball team, the Hanshin Tigers, after fans treatment of a storefront Colonel statue. In 1985, the Tigers won the Japan Championship series. Fans gathered at a bridge, and yelled the names of the players while fans resembling the players jumped off the bridge one by one. When it came to the player Randy Bass, a Colonel Sanders statue was thrown into the canal (as both the Colonel and Bass are non-Japanese and have beards). Following this, the Tigers had an 18 year losing streak known as the "Curse of the Colonel". During this time, the canal was even drained to find the statue to appease the Colonel, but it was never found. Thus the curse remains and the Hanshin Tigers are still rubbish.
Simon N, Reading

If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
Mrs Annie F Snelling, Brookland

For every memorial statue with a person on a horse, if the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died of battle wounds; if all four of the horse?s legs are on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
Mrs Annie F Snelling, Brookland

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest!
Mrs Annie F Snelling, Brookland

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle
Mrs Annie F Snelling, Brookland

Sadly, Christy Mcgreggory is wrong - S H I T doesn't mean Ship High In Transit. It actually comes from the Old English Scitte, which (as you all know) means Diarrhoea!
Jonathan Oxtoby, m

Tutankhamun's face isn't his! The famous picture of the Golden Death Mask actually belongs to his brother, Smenkhare- this matey ruled for about a year, before it was generally decided that nobody liked him and he was killed. When Tut died he had a shortage of things to be buried with, so the people in charge of it nicked a bunch of other stuff - his organs were put in jars belonging to his parents, his coffin was originally designed for his mum, and the death mask was the one his brother owned. So we don't know what he looked like!
Jonathan Oxtoby, Maidenhead

I can lick my elbow. Honestly. I know that no one's supposed to be able to but I can. I'm happy to provide photo evidence if necessary.
Nicky, York

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people
Peter Craig, Bangor

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo
Peter Craig, Bangor

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the planet earth.
Jamie Smyth, Belfast

Children are the salt of our lives. They add spice and interest, but unless you are careful they can shorten your life.
dorothy, yass

I know, I know it's a swear word but the word S H I T means Ship High In Transit. It comes from long ago, when the manure was shipped on boats in big clumps. Anyway one day a boat was in rough waters, and when water and manure mix= BAD IDEA, Methane is created. And they didnt have torches or anything back then so they used *the irony of it* GAS!! yes GAS lamps. So when the captain sent the supervisor down to check upon the manure, a lethal reaction occured, METHANE+GAS+FLAME= KABOOM!! so they started storing manure in boxes and always stamped on the box SHIT or ship high in transit. So our depiction of that word today is right. Another thing you probably didn't know...
Christy McGrory, Corby

If you take an Ancient Greek word and add "cracy" (from the Greek krater for power) you can create your own system of government. A Didaskalocracy is rule of the teachers. a Sminthocracy is rule of the mice, and a Boukaiocracy is rule of the cowherds.
Jonathan Riches, Tewkesbury

The first word ever written down in Western literature is "menin", Ancient Greek for "rage". It says it all.
Jonathan Riches, Tewkesbury

Because no peace treaty was signed, North Korea and South Korea have been at war since 1950.
Jonathan Riches, Tewkesbury

One billion pounds of pasta would need approximately 2,021,452,000 gallons of water to cook it. This is equivalent to 75,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

On average, a person will spend about five years eating during their lifetime.
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

There are six fictional charactors who have stars on hollywoods walk of fame
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

There was a time in Japan where a wife being left handed was a ground for divorce.
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

The Hundred Years War lasted for 116 years.
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

In 1836, Mexican General Santa Anna held an elaborate state funeral for his amputated leg.
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

In 1982, Larry Walters tied 45 weather balloons to his lawn chair in Los Angeles and climbed to an altitude of 16,000 feet.
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

People who study laughter are called a "gelotologists."
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

French astronomer Adrien Auzout had once considered building a telescope that was 1,000 feet long in the 1600s. He thought the magnification would be so great, he would see animals on the moon.
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

A Russian man who wore a beard during the time of Peter the Great had to pay a special tax.
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for approximately sixty-nine years.
Oliver Langfield, Brighton

When was the most recent ice age? We're still in it
Teddy, wigan

A whopping 10% - one tenth, for the mathematically challenged - of the average human body weight, consists of bacteria. In the gut, the mouth, crawling all over the skin...Mostly, I must add, are "friendly" bacteria essential for healthy living, as mentioned in certain Probiotic yoghurt drink advertisements.
Alan Jones, Oldham

Dont EVER, ever, ever, ever put grapes in a microwave!! Unless of course, you want to create a fireball and possibly burn your microwave...Apparently, the gas in the grapes burns to create plasma..or something along those lines! dont believe me? google/youtube it! (and dont try it at home!)
Sophie M, London

When you sneeze your heart stops for a really, really short amount of time.
jack, Eastbourne

Facetious, abstemious and arsenious are the only words in the English language that contain the vowels 'a e i o u' in the correct order.
George Meixner, Sheering

When I was little, the Public Health Inspector for Norwich was Mr Smellie; he had his name on all the bin lorries, and it still makes me laugh.
Bears, Dereham

Dueling is legal in Paraguay... as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
Guy Cox, Windlesham

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Guy Cox, Windlesham

The Longest place name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.
Guy Cox, Windlesham

You are 176 times more likely to be murdered than to win the National Lottery.
Rachel, Romsey

The average human produces 10,000 gallons of saliva in a lifetime.
Joseph Leigh, Weaverham, Northwich, Cheshire

The giraffe has the longest neck as well as the longest tail of any land mammal.
Lee Atkinson, Middlesbrough

Did you know that the Earth is covered by about 4/5 water, and nearly 1/2 of that is the Pacific Ocean alone! (*though this could change with climate changes).
Lee Atkinson, Middlesbrough

You should judge a book by its cover. The cover of a book is specifically designed to give you an idea of what the book is about.
James Monaghan, Manchester

Poets hate the words month, silver, orange and purple because they are no words that rhyme with them in the english language.
Grainne Forde, Llanelli

If you farted constantly for 6 years and 9 months you would have generated as much power as a nucleur bomb.
Charlie , Wokingham

86% of all percentages are made up.
Rob, Bradford

Dogs can smell cancer.
Stefan, Brighton

Every time the tide rises everyone of us loses a fraction of an ounce, but the weight is regained when the tide falls.
sarah hoggarth, leeds

If all men are born equal, where do interns come from ?
Fabien, Paris

The glue on Israeli postage is certified kosher.
Matthew Bullock, Leicestershire

Never trust a man with a comb-over. If he's lying to himself, he's likely to lie to you too.
Scott Hamilton, Belfast

If you were to play golf on the Moon, the ball would orbit the Moon and quite possibly hit you on the back of the head.
Nathan

A barnacle has the largest penis in the animal kingdom (in proportion to body size) - It is about 40 times the length of their body!
Tristram Emery, High Wycombe

Scratch your chin, put your tongue between your teeth, and say 'RED' backwards as loud as possible. Then realise how stupid you've been...
Josh, Tunbridge Wells

'Mother in law' is an anagram of 'Woman Hitler'.
Josh, Tunbridge Wells

A primary rainbow can only occur if the sun is below 42° above the horizon. This is why in the summer months (in the UK) rainbows are never seen around noon.
Andrzej, Salisbury

Snails have thousands of teeth and can even eat limestone - which they use for their shells not for any nutritional value.
Mike, Bath

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted
Chris Ash, Kettering

If the sky is the limit, then what is space over the limit?
Chris Ash, Kettering

The statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide, nearly as big as Cherie Blair's!
eamo, Dublin

did you know that some ants can make themselves explode?
ashleigh, Liverpool

You should never judge a book by its cover, or as my old man used to say "Just because Thora Hird cannot climb stairs that doesn't make her a dalek"
Andy, London

Tomato DNA is only 1% different to human DNA.
Ashley, Gateshead

Jaffa Cakes don't have jaffa orange in them, it's actually apricot jam!
Ashley Hook, Gateshead

A law in scotland that has never been repealed is that women are not allowed to clean windows above street level.
W. Brown., AYR.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
Jessica Hindson, Alton

Sharks are so well developed by the time they leave the womb that they often eat each other before they are born.
Elliot McVeigh, Devizes

People who sleep for 7 hours or less a night will on average live for longer than those who sleep for 8 hours or more. I'm not sure about the people who sleep between 7-8 hours a night.
Chris, Belfast

Elephants can't sneeze
Sarah Dixon, Baldock

Dried apricots are a cause of small bowel obstruction
Philip Goode, Worcester

In Chester you can shoot a welshman with a bow and arrow, as long as its dark
Philip Goode, Worcester

Adam and Eve probably had an appendix. Did they have bellybuttons?
Demi O, London

Did you know that you sneeze at 80mph?
Jordan, Brighton

Mr. T eats nails and sweats rust.
William

Did you know that there are over 7000 different types of apples.
M Renterty, Dorset

People who really really hate tomatoes and cannot stand them anywhere near them are probably allergic to potassium. There is loads more potassium in a tomato than there is in a banana, so the body naturally keeps someone away from tomatoes.
Nikki, North Yorkshire

If you divide 100 by 81 on a calculator you will get 1.23456789. When you multiply the answer by 81 to try and get 100 again you get 99.9999999. It only works on some calculators though depending on how precise they are!
Nikki, North Yorkshire

If you prick a spider with a pin it will die. They bleed to death because spiders have nothing in their blood to clot it with and cannot form a scab (no coagulents?).
Nikki, North Yorkshire

What is brail for do not touch?
Lee,

In North Carolina it's against the law to race a rabbit down the street !!!
Alice Stevenson, Rugby

45% of the dollar bills you own have been in a stripper's g-string
Leanne, Whitsable

A donkey with one leg shorter than the rest is called a wonkey!
Mike, Navan

Fossilised dinosaur droppings are called 'coprolite'
Kry B

When you say something like 'ill be back in a jiffy' what you probably dont know is that the jiffy is actually a proper measurement of time! Its a 1/100th of a second. So it probably took you about 500 jiffys to read this.
Luke Richardson, Hull

If the human brain was simple enough to understand we would be too simple to understand it
Andy Jackson, Kirriemuir

A Psammosere is a posh name for a sand dune with grass on.
Grace, Windsor

There is a city called Rome on every continent.
Ruby, London

In his younger days, to keep warm, Pablo Picasso used to burn his own paintings!
Frances Cheesman, Suffolk

'Groaking' is to watch other people eating food in the hope that they will offer you some.
Mark, London

'Useless Facts and Trivia Day' is on 9th March.
Mark, London

Crack shot Annie Oakley, using an ordinary rifle, once shot at 5,000 pennies, tossed into the air one after the other, and hit an incredible 4,777 - that's a 96% accuracy rate!
Mark, London

America's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee's tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nulcear war.
Mark, London

The strength of early lasers was measured in Gillettes - the number of razor blades a given beam could puncture.
Mark, London

Moths aren't attracted to the light, its the darkness behind the bulb they are after!
Mark, Warrington

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave!
Fred, Maidstone

In the state of Colorado, a pet cat, if loose, must have a tail-light.
Fred Whitehouse, maidstone

Ostriches have never even attempted to bury their heads in the sand! if forced, they will kick you really hard!!
Britanneka, North Yorkshire

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase: "Goodnight, sleep tight."
Samantha Mummery, swaffham

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
Samantha Mummery, swaffham

The word "dollar" has its etymological roots in the German town of Joachimstal
Paul Shilton, St Helens

Take note, the origin of the phrase 'to go commando' (i.e. to wear trousers with no undercrackers on): there's a game that commandos in the British army play called 'naked bar'. This is played any time a group of them are together in a bar. If at any time someone yells "NAKED BAR!" they all have 10 seconds to strip off, or they get a horrible punishment. To aid in the speedy removal of the clothing, they'll generally wear boots with the laces tucked in, loose trousers and a t shirt, pants being an unneccessary addition. Hence, to wander around with no underpants on is to do as the commandos do, or "to go commando".
Simon N, Reading

The IWOOT award looks like the letter "i" from a packet of smarties.
Dean Brierley, Wigan

Glastonbury Tor is hollow, and home to the King of the Fairies. Which is why some people act so strangely when they get to the top. And why the grass tingles when you sit on it.
Gill Hamper, Eastbourne

In response to a comment made a while back by Cheyrl (from Edinburgh), another Pepsi slogan (Come alive with Pepsi) was mistranslated as 'Wake up your ancestors with Coca-Cola'. Also, the Burton menswear slogan, originally thought to have read 'Be Proud of Russia' actually means 'We will cleanse Russia of all non-Russians. On another note, the slogan of the beer company Coors (Turn it loose) was mistranslated into Spanish as 'Suffer from diarrhea.
Daniel, Edgware

The rain in Spain goes mainly down the drain
Lynne H

The only person allowed to, legally, go thru a red light is a postman delivering a declaration of war.
ODDJOB, Sheffield

Cat pee glows under a black light. No, really!
Suzanne Burlton, London, England

Most kinds of lipstick contains fish scales.
Daniel Jones, Rushden

The average person spends about 30 years mad at a family member
Daniel Jones, Rushden

Around 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year
Daniel Jones, Rushden

Polar bear fur isn't white, it's clear.
Wayne, Buckley

Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virus
Chris Ash, Kettering

David Beckham earns 8p a second
Brad

Did you know, that the moon gets further away from the earth, by 1 and a half inches, every year? And that eventually, it will be so far from us, that it will no longer have any influence over the tides?
susan, london

This sentence has three a's, two c's, two d's, nineteen e's, six f's, two g's, five h's, ten i's, two l's, twelve n's, nine o's, five r's, twenty six s's, sixteen t's, four u's, four v's, eight w's, four x's, and two y's.
Alice, Winchester

12345679x8=98765432
bob, bob

Oh, the irony. With beer, we all look a lot more attractive. Without beer (according to natural selection) we would all BE a lot more attractive!
Dave C, Blackpool

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood!
Paul, Liverpool

Namco's 1979 arcade game "Pac-Man", was originally called "Puck Man". The name was changed when they realised that vandals could easily scratch out part of the letter "P".
Tom Key, Sidcup

Yesterday I had a premonition that today I was going to have deja-vue
Pete

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight!
Alex Blakemore, Surrey

The first person to have a face Transplant, was French Woman Isabelle Dinoire at Amiens University Hospital France on 27th November 2005, after her dog chewed Off her Nose Lips and Chin.
Martin Atkins, Belvedere

Months that begin on a Sunday, always contain a Friday the thirteenth.
Mark, London

Sean Connery represented Scotland in the 1952 Mr Universe contest.
Mark, London

Mick Jagger once said "I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45!".
Mark, London

"SHAZAM!" which was shouted to conjure up comic-book hero Captain Marvel, is actually an acronym. It stands for Soloman's Wisdom, Hercules's Strength, Atlas's Stamina, Zeus's Power, Achilles's Courage and Mercury's Speed.
Mark, London

If to 'go commando' is to wear trousers without underwear,does that mean a comando wearing underwear as well is going civilian?
Jen, Southport

According to goverment statistics 20% of car accidents are caused by drunk drivers. Means that 80% are caused by sober drivers!!
Gerry, Musseburgh

Generally speaking (there are a few exceptions), people who like marmite don't like marzipan, and vice versa.
Jo, Kent

Henry Ford discovered that black paint dried quicker than any other colour on his production line, hence "you can have any colour you like as long as its black" on a Model T.
Barbara Critchley, Argyll

Due to the law of gravity if every chinese person jumped at exactly the same time then the earth would move to the chinese, not the chinese being pulled back to the earth.
David, Garstang

I put those heads on Easter Island. It was a joke that went too far.
Dave C, Blackpool

if you were to draw a straight line with an average graphite pencil until it ran out, the line would be 35 miles long
Scott McDermott, Warrington

Atoms are 99.9% empty space. If all the space was sucked out of the atoms in your body, you'd shrink to the size of a grain of salt. If you did the same thing to the entire human race then all six billion of us would fit inside a single apple.
David, Garstang

If Barbie was lifesize her measurements would be 39-29-33
Alex Panebianco, Northamptonshire

Champagne is an English invention. The "Methode Champenoise" was first written down in England in 1662. It wasn't until 1876 that the French perfected the dry or "brut" style (and even then it was for export to England).
Mark Jones, Braintree

If you put a whole "normal" lightbulb in your mouth, you can get it in, but you can't get it out!
Frank Walker, London

Taxi(cabs) are called that because they used to be an open top horse drawn cart (a cabriolet). When the motor car arrived an electric charge device was used (which the french called a taximeter). Taximeter Cabriolet ... TaxiCab
Jonathan Bitel, London

Never play cards with anybody whose middle name is 'The'.
Mark Jones, Braintree

The actor who played the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots
Alex Panebianco, Northamptonshire

111,111,111 X 111,111,111= 12,345,678,987,654,321
Caroline, Berkley, MI

WWW (double u double u double u) is the only acronym that is longer in terms of syllables than the words it represents (world wide web). The World Wide Web was invented by a British man. These two facts are probably linked.
Jonathan Riches, Tewkesbury

The UK does not have an official language
M Franks, Canterbury

The "Big Issue" costs more in England than in Scotland!
M Franks, Canterbury

In Star Wars Episode 1, just after The Chancellor sits down after the bid of no confidence in the Senate Meeting Chamber. As the various representatives of the Senate are clapping, you will see in the bottom Left Hand Corner a group of ET's ( from ET - The Extraterrestial) all clapping as well in their own platform. I've not seen this posted anywhere else on the net though. Has it been missed?
Mark Dean, NORWICH

There are only four animals with blue tongues: the black bear, the Chow-Chow dog, the blue-tongued lizard and me when I've eaten a raspberry slush!
Katie Smith, Brotton

Vegetarians save more than 100 animals each year by not eating meat.
Katie Smith, Brotton

Norfolk Island, a tiny island in the South Pacific, includes people's nicknames in the telephone directory. The inhabitants are mostly descended from a handful of people, so lots of them share the same surname. If their nicknames weren't included too then you couldn't be sure you were calling the correct person.
Katie Brooks, Edinburgh

If the entire population of China was to walk past you in a line the line would never end due to the rate of reproduction. It would also mean that the line would soon have to become double as there will not be enough room around the Earth
alex panebianco, Northamptonshire

The inventor of the first electronic programmable computer (Colossus in WWII), was invented by a man called Tommy Flowers.
Michael Bennett, Nantwich, Cheshire

A quarter of the whole brain is used just to control the eyes
alex panebianco, Northamptonshire

Believe it or not chameleion camoflauge is not dependant on the chameleon knowing where it is. Even blind chameleons camoflauge with their surroundings
alex panebianco, Northamptonshire

The first programmer was a woman, Ada Lovelace.
Louise Quinn, Edinburgh

Because of the way donkeys eyes are placed in its head it can see all four of its legs at one time
alex panebianco, Northamptonshire

Most people know that there are a lot of downsided to being left handed. Left handers have a shorter average life span (7 years shorter) and they're also on average not as clever. But we don't have everything against us, left handed people are better at sports which require good reactions and spatial awareness. Yeah.
alex panebianco, Northamptonshire

Scientists have proved that if you want your plants to grow healthier it is better to stroke them rather than sing to them
alex panebianco, Northamptonshire

Stewardesses is the longest word you can type with te keys on the left hand side of the keyboard. Typewriter is the longest word you can type using only one row of keys on a keyboard
alex panebianco, Northamptonshire

A woodchuck would chuck 7kg of wood (a woodchuck can chuck wood).
Richard Lelas, Dublin

Oysters can and do change sex, and eat plankton and any other "Particles" that happen to be hanging around.
Joseph Price, London

The tune of the American National Anthem was originally a drinking song written by the organist of Gloucester Cathedral
Ian Gordon, Camberley

Men have nipples because a all babies start off as girls. If you're going to be a boy you only become one after a few weeks of development, by which time you already have nipples and there is no reverse process.
Daniel Rice, Widnes

There are more living organisms on the skin of each human than there are humans on the surface of the earth.
Patricia Nick, Birmingham

The Sun is 330,330 times larger than Earth. The Sun newspaper is not.
Angela Ashton, Scunthorpe

The difference between general knowledge and intelligence. Knowing that a tomato is a fruit is general knowledge - not putting one in a fruit salad is intelligence.
David Schulman, Dublin, Ireland

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!
david powell, pontypool

The memorial of the horse that played Mr.Ed in the TV series of the same name is in Talequah, Oklahoma.
Karen Dodd, Penkridge

You can become immune to scorpion venom. Catch a centipede & remove the head, mash the rest. Scratch your arm and wipe a bit of the mashed centipede juice over the scratch. Hey presto! Immunity to scorpion venom. No responsibility will be taken for injuries or death relating to the above.
Jason Dodd, Penkridge

The new wembley stadium has more toilets than any other building in the world
Brett Haines, Newton Abbot

Chicken tikka masala comes from Glasgow. Britain exports chicken tikka masala to India and it was invented in Glasgow in the late 1960s. Chicken tikka is a traditional Bengali dish; chicken tikka masala came to be when a customer in a Glasgow curry house asked for some gravy to go with his chicken tikka, and the chef improvised with tomato soup, spices and cream. 100% true.
Mark Jones, London

Coca-cola was originally green
Max .H., West Malling

everyone's tongue print is unique!
Max .H., West Malling

One baseball player said, when asked how many slices he wanted his pizza cut into, "better make it six, i can't eat eight"
Max Hadlow, West malling

Scorpions are also cool because if a leg breaks off, you can glue it back on with superglue and it will still work!
Ali Minimad, Nottingham

Scorpions are cool because they move using hydraulics! No muscles, just fluid they move about to get their legs to bend etc.
Ali Minimad, Nottingham

During railway expansion in Egypt in the 19th century, construction companies unearthed so many mummies that they used them as fuel for locomotives.
Jake Evans, Harpenden, England

Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you. Ruptured cells become food for living bacteria in the gut, which release enough noxious gas to bloat the body and force the eyes to bulge outward.
Jake Evans, Harpenden, England

The steady hissing noise you get when tuning in your radio or TV is - incredibly - the actual microwave echo of the Big Bang that signalled the beginning of our universe several billion years ago!!!!
Jake Evans, Harpenden, England

The Cleveland Public Library, Harvard Law School, and Brown University in the USA all have book covers made from human skin, stripped from executed criminals or from the poor.
Jake Evans, Harpenden, England

Globally, dead human skin cells account for about 1 billion tons of dust circulating in the atmosphere. Your skin sheds 50,000 cells every minute.
Jake Evans, Harpenden, UK

The average human adult's skin spans 21 square feet, weighs nine pounds, and contains more than 11 miles of blood vessels.
Jake Evans, Harpenden, England

In Japan, it's the honorable thing for politicians caught taking bribes to commit suicide. If the same standards applied here, we'd have a lot of dead politicians.
Demi, Essex

A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Jake Evans, Harpenden, England

Did you know ,that white cats with blue eyes are deaf?
helen sherwood, cambridge

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails!
laura smith, Liverpool

For every human being on earth, there are about 200 million insects.
Bill, London

Paludal Sediments are deposited in swamps
Rachael S

A swamp appears in the coat of arms of Gesturi, Italy.
Tracie L

A slough is a type of swamp and is how the town of Slough got its name. One day the swamp will return and swallow up Slough and the world will be a better place.
David K

sneezes come out of your nose at 60 miles an hour.so you'd better be quick with the hanky
mandy , brighouse

There is a famous swamp in the US called The Okefenokee
Sophie H

Until the mid sixteenth century, Comets were believed to be not astronomical phenomena, but burning vapors that had arisen from distant swamps and were propelled across the sky by fire and light.
John H

If your lost in a swamp at night, don't use a candle to light your path. The gas from swamps is often explosive!
Sarah B

The Swamp is the nickname for the subordinate male officer surgical staff quarters tent in M*A*S*H
Edd P

Hunstanton in Norfolk is the only West facing resort on the East coast!
teknofobe, Bradford, England

the new Freedom of Information Act in Britain has allowed people to request those little gems we love such as asking the Foreign Office how many Ferrero Rocher they serve at parties?.......
teknofobe, Bradford, England

Pantanal do Mato Grosso, in west-central Brazil, south of the Amazon, is the largest swamp on earth. In the summer rainy season, from October to March, it floods an area almost twice the size of England!!!!!
Fran M

The collective noun for Ravens is an Unkindness, or a Conspiracy
delia, dark side of the moon

A carat of Cubic Zirconia weighs 1.7 times the equivalent quantity of real diamonds.
Catrina, Hampshire

"The bat is the only animal that can walk, swim and fly. Roger L., Atlanta" oh really? which one can't ducks do?
pieman, notts

Bubbles in swamps aren't necessarily caused by windy ogres but by Biogas - a (biofuel) gas produced by the anaerobic digestion or fermentation of organic matter including manure, sewage sludge, municipal solid waste, biodegradable waste or any other biodegradable feedstock, under anaerobic conditions.
Gillian R

Cornflakes are made from sweetcorn!!
Danielle L

Humans do infact have a sixth sense, called proprioception, which is the knowledge or feeling of our body in space. Patients without this sense tend to collapse when their visual feedback is taken away.
Matthew D

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
Paul A

It would take 400,000,000 peas to fill a carriage on the london eye. Each one weighs 10 tonnes (without peas)
Edward S

A crocadile can run faster than a human, and swim faster than a human, infact in a triathlon you would really have to make up the gap in the cycling section
Craig, Farnham

No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
Stewart S

The Antarctic has both the wettest and the dryist recorded places on Earth.
Karen O

Wind speeds on Neptune can reach 1,500 mph.
Andrew C

Someone has actually invented and patented a nappy for birds!
Neil H

A hippo can run up to 30mph and is also the most dangerous animal in Africa killing around 300/400 people a year.
Sarah M

On average, America eats over 100 acres of pizza a day!
Jacqui O

All polar bears are left handed
Lucy F

A 'French kiss' in France is known as an English kiss!
Neil H

The Japanese word for Japan, Nihon (Nippon), means source of the sun. No wonder so many bright ideas see the light of day there!
Mark D

Porcupines float in water!
Emma, Ilkley

When snakes are born with two heads they fight each other for food
Beverley H

If 10,000 people all shout at the same time as loud as they can, they will generate enough energy to boil a pint of water
Zeborah, Trowbridge

The man who invented the moving pictures (Eadweard Muybridge) murdered his wife's lover, but the jury let him off because they thought it was reasonable under the circumstances.
Brian C

The difference between a merry-go-round and a carousel is that a carousel only has horses but a merry-go-round has lots of different animals to ride on.
Polly B

No word in the English language rhymes with orange.
Katrina H

Frogs don't drink water.
Kris N

I bet you didnt know that I am currently burried knee deep in gelli baff, whilst eating a hot dog I purchased from a dodgy looking stall in the high street.
Simon Y

The Bumblebee bat is the world's smallest mammal at 3-4cm in length...but its wing span can be up to 17cm long! And its darn cute too!
Jen G

Crab sticks had to change their name to Crab Flavoured Sticks because they actually have no crab in them!
Sam B

A scientific report form the University of California found that the steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!
gary C

When your face blushes, the lining of your stomach turns red, too * Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine* It snowed in the Sahara desert on February 18, 1979* 80% of millionaires drive used cars
Elliot M

In the first 20 James Bond movies, Bond is told 33 times that he will die, and he makes love 79 times. Of the 58 Bond girls, 29 were brunettes, 25 blondes, and 4 redheads. Women moaned "Oh, James!" 16 times
James S

The steam engine was invented in ancient Greece. The earth has at least seven moons, not one. George Washington's teeth previously belonged to a hippopotamus. This sounds made up but beleive me it's 100% true I have a passion for random facts.
Ben S

There are currently 46,983,789,826 Maltesers in the UK. (4,217 extra tomorrow taking into account the 23,862,867 eaten today and 23,867,084 produced). Bet you didn't know that
Daniel W

The Under 12 Surrey badminton champions have pay to engrave the trophiesthey won!!
Josh M

3 Brits die each year testing if a 9v battery works on their tongue. 142 Brits were injured in 1999 by not removing all pins from new shirts. 58 Brits are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers. 31 Brits have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in. 19 Brits have died in the last 3 years believing that Christmas decorations were chocolate. British Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after Xmas cracker-pulling accidents. 18 Brits had serious burns in 2000 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth. A massive 543 Brits were admitted to A&E in the last two years after trying to open bottles of beer with their teeth. 5 Brits were injured last year in accidents involving out-of-control Scalextric cars.
Marc S

The hundred years war lasted 116 years, cat gut comes from sheep and horses, Russians celebrate the October Revolution in November, Camel's hair brushes are made from squirrel fur, George VI's first name was Albert, The Purple Finch is red, Chinese gooseberries are from New Zealand and the infamous black box in aeroplanes are actually orange .. do you feel edu-ma-cated ?
Mark, St Osyth

A chicken is only called a chicken after it is dead. Before then it is called a hen.
Joanne B

I bet you didnt know that every year the moon moves approx 3inches away from the earth.
Bernadette C

Rudolph the Red nose reindeer was a girl. Male reindeer lose their antlers at the beginning of winter, females keep them until they give birth in the spring!
Jane R

My boss thinks I'm working late because I've been reading these comments for 9 hours now.
Rick, Netherlands

James Madison the 4th president was 5 feet 4 inches tall, the smallest ever.
Tom R

More than 2,000 people have radio frequency identification chips, or RFID tags, inserted under their skin. The tags can provide access to medical information, log on to computers, or unlock car doors.
ian A

If all the strands of DNA in every cell from one person were placed end to end, they would span a distance equivalent to that of 600,000 times the circumference of the Earth.
Will W

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
Chris H

The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
David O

The egg came many millions of years before the chicken; eggs have been around since before the dinosaurs, but chickens have only been around for a couple of millenia...
Richard W

If you stand on one leg, pinch your nose, open your mouth, and hold your eyes close for 3 seconds then open them then you will see your future spouse. (mine is andy griffith)
Gokipaapvi , appomottosa

that 100 members of the u.s.a. own more than 75% of the entire wealth of the world
James G

In Texas it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
Millie

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair
Babji V

Need a sure-fire way to perk up in the mornings (better than coffee)? Either leap out of bed straight onto an upturned plug, or hide a brick somewhere along a narrow corridor, making sure to stub your toe. Wakes you up instantly, but don't blame me if you're in a foul mood until lunchtime.
Simon N

If you make clockwise circles with your right foot while sitting at your desk... (go on, no one will see you) ... and then draw the number "6" in the air with your right hand - Your foot will change direction - weird eh?!
Laurence M

If the current increasing in capacity of memory cards continues (doubling approximatly every 12 months), then by 2020 they will be able to hold around 32,768 GB, thats enough for around 8million songs (thats 3 million more than currently available on itunes), enabling someone to listen to music for about 60 years continously. But with current USB 2 technology it would take nearly 7 days to fill the mosterous memory card.
Mark G

The engines that move the roof of the new Wembley Stadium have the power of 6,000 Range Rovers
Nathan P

If anyone ever tells you newborn babies sleep for 17 hours a day, they ARE lying.
Stepahnie I

Gorillas cannot swim
Martin B

A deer has no gallbladder
Louis S

"St Johns Wood" is the only London underground station which doesn't have any letters in common with the word "mackerel"!
Nicholas B

It is illegal in Alaska to give a moose an alcoholic drink.
Joel W

Chocolate syrup was used as blood in the shower scene in Psycho. Despite being only 45 secs long, the scene took 7 days to shoot!
Emily O

10% of the population sit at the wrong end of the bath!
marc P

Only one in ten thousand hedgehogs are born totally white with red eyes and there appears to be no established word for a baby hedgehog.
Ben W

the Big Mac (from McDonalds) has so much sugar in it to counteract all the chemicals and whatever else to make it edible that if it wasn't for the lettuce it'd legally have to be classed as a dessert. still fancy that burger...?
Tom H

As someone with Asperger Syndrome I can't help but read a literal interpretation of the question " Why not tell us Something We Didn't Know?" - thus I must answer, because my girlfriend wants me to go make dinner and stop wasting time on the internet.
Steve A

Professor X from the X-Men comic books is named Charles Francis Xavier after the Saint and missionary who bears the same name, even though Saint Francis was a nutcase who proposed the forcible conversion of heretics (ie: everybody) via a ridiculously sadistic inquisition.
Michael G

Statistically, Left handed people live slightly shorter lives than right handed people.
David G

To nictate, is to blink.
Abdul B

After organ transplantation, it is customary to give the patient medication that suppresses the immune system (immunosuppressants), to prevent the body's defences from attacking the new tissue. However, this had the nasty side-effect of making the person prone to infections and illnesses. One way to eliminate the need to take immunosuppressant drugs, would be to treat the organ in question prior to transplantation with an enzyme that digests MHC class molecules. These molecules are the 'labels' by which our immune system recognises foreign cells, and are comparable to the "chassis number" in motor vehicles. By eliminating these MHC class molecules, the tissue becomes 'invisible' to the immune system, and the tissue will not be attacked. Unfortunately, such an enzyme does not yet exist, and would have to be synthetised. I have some more brilliant ideas if you want them.
Hans D

The human thumb is exactly the same length as the human nose. Try it!
jill G

I found the meaning of life in my dictionary but I lost the page.
Martin, Mansfield

My fave PC error message - Warning: Keyboard not detected. Press any key to continue.
Aaron H

On a frozen lake there is a 2cm air gap between the ice layer and the water. Houdini used this to breathe when escaping from a straight jacket whilst submerged under a frozen lake.
John S

What do bullet-proof vests, fire escapes, windscreeen wipers, and laser printers all have in common? All were invented by women.
Gemma A

Something You Didn't Know is that '25.806976' is the route of all evil!! (the square route of '25.806976' is '666.00001' i.e 666). Spooky eh, you'll never look at that number the same again!!
Tom J

I'm wearing odd socks. And I really do want a PS3, so I can sell it on Ebay, then use the money to buy a pair of R/C Spitfires off your fantastic site, thereby returning the value of said PS3 to your truly amazing company. See, with my way, everyone's a winner! :-D
Matthew C

The lyricist of the song ?Keep the Home Fires Burning? Lena Gilbert Ford, actually burned to death in her own home!
Leonard V

Someone who jumps from 6 stories up only has a 50/50 chance of dying. Although I wouldn't advise testing it.
Donald A

The word 'chorizo' is derived from a combination of latin words for 'nostalgia' and 'cummerbund'
Simon A

Way down deep in the middle of the Congo, a hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango. He stuck it with the others, and he danced a dainty tango. The rhino said, "I know, we'll call it Um Bongo", Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo. The python picked the passion fruit, the marmoset the mandarin. The parrot painted packets, that the whole caboodle landed in. So when it comes to sun and fun and goodness in the jungle, They all prefer the sunny funny one they call Um Bongo!
Daniel B

Would a German Shepherd understand a German shepherd?
louise, Keighley

An earlier post said "A "Googol" is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros". Well, a googolplex is the number 1 followed by a googol of zeros. This number is so large that even if all the known matter in the Universe were converted into ink and paper, it would still not be possible to write it down. If you wanna try writing it down, writing at a rate of 2 digits per second, it would take longer than the age of the Universe to do so. Best get cracking then.
Snell, Reading

What weighs more, a pound of feathers, or a pound of gold? You'd be wrong if you said they both weigh the same, because they don't. Feathers (like most things) are weighed by the avoirdupois unit which has 16 ounces to the pound. Gold and other precious metals and gems use the troy unit which has 12 ounces to the pound. So a pound of feathers weighs more than a pound of gold.
Snell, Reading

There are more stars in the universe than sand particles on Earth.
Madis, Tallinn

Carrots can be used to treat intestinal parasites.
Lex L

Did you know that more than 2,700 languages are spoken in the world?
Stephen S

The face of a penny can hold 30 drops of water.
Alison F

The apes from Gibraltar actually come from Morocco.
Viv J

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Laura S

I just got bought a brand new pair of pyjamas last week with pockets in. Which is great because, before that, I used to have to hold stuff when I slept.
Charles, Wetherby

The youngest ever holder of a patent (John J. Stone-Parker) was only four years old! He invented a gadget to stop ice from falling out of a drinking glass.
Oliver J

Gappes bats were originially smuggled into London in the early 19th century by French saboteurs and roost in the tunnels of the London Underground. They have proved impossible to exterminate. When on the platform the announcement "Mind the Gappe!" is a signal that you should grab your hair and look towards the ceiling.
Barry S

A "Googol" is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros
John U

Chelsea Pensioners may not be impersonated.
Alan D

Tea stays hotter for longer if you put the milk in first as opposed to putting the water in first.
Kristy R

Every human spend aproximately half an hour as a single cell.
Helen M

Did you know that the unit of time "second" was only derived in Elizabethan times when they decided that the minute wasn't small enough a unit of time for their purposes, those clever wigbound mathematicians created a "second" order of minuteness of time. And yes, "minute" comes from the original meaning of the word "minute" (ie a really really short period of time); originally determined as a 60th of a degree.
Michael K

The Union Flag is only called the Union Jack if it is on the jackstay of a ship.
Richard J

Bet you didn't know that Santa Claus' suit was originally green - until 'Coca-Cola' changed it to red on the adverts.
Schmoo, Liverpool

Eating yellow snow might be a bad idea, but rubbing it on a jellyfish sting should ease the pain.
Kevin L

The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life'.
Rob H

You can remove white rings on wood caused by hot cups/plates simply and cheaply by ironing over them at low temperature (put a cotton pillowcase under the iron). It really works!
Lisa T

New Jersey and Oregon are the only two states in the USA where it is illegal to pump your own fuel.
Ross T

Antigua has 365 beaches - one for every day of the year
Sharon C

When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.
Edward G

Peanuts are peas and not nuts.
Els H

According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
Andrew S

A barn owl can hear a mouse's heartbeat from 30 ft away
Roland F

Glycerin helps bubbles stick around for longer
Catherine H

My geography teacher, as well as saying that in 20 years time that giant crabs will take over the world also compared the earth to a loaf of bread and a volcano to a tomato. And by the way why does every one say ED at the end of there post thingys??? ED. (Well they don't all say Ed. Ed=Editor, which is us here at IWOOT. It's when we add a postscipt to your comment, like this. Ed. And BTW, the crabs are coming.)
Jessica, Cambridge

"I Want One Of Those" is an anagram for "OOH NOW, EATEN FIST!"
Andy C

Purple is a word that can be rhymed! Curple - The hindquarters or rump of a horse
Bex, Norwich

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard
Susan W

Ricky Gervais used to manage the band Suede.
Jill C

It is illegal to spit into the wind in Nebraska
Helen J

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silver
Julie S

White Willow bark is used in the same manner as is aspirin. In fact, aspirin was originally created from research into White Willow bark.
Kate B

Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany.
Ross L

It is illegal to sell an ET doll in France. They have a law forbidding the sale of dolls that do not have human faces.
Rachel P

The largest living thing in the world is an underground fungus. Scientists discovered it when they found that scattered clumps of mushrooms above ground all had the same DNA.
Lee C

Serving anything more than tea and biscuits at a political meeting is an offence called "treating" and punishable by a year in prision or an unlimited fine, under the Representation of the people Act 1893.
Gina S

The country's first roundabout was built in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, in 1910
jen E

Back in 1919, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.
Michael G

Wrapping a tennis ball in masking tape gives you a cricket ball that's kind to your hands!
Jonathan L

Kazakhstan is the 9th biggest country (by landmass) in the world - it's the size of the whole of Western Europe.
Rachel P

A pin up photo of film star Rita Hayworth was stuck to the first atomic bomb to be tested on the bikini atoll, in the western pacific in 1946
Gavin K

The dot above a lower case 'i' and 'j' is called a tittle.
Stuart P

Tomato is world's most popular fruit
Lee B

An ant brain has about 250000 brain cells
Nicola A

Humans are the only species on earth that have face-to-face sex
Colin S

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Thomas G

My aunt can juggle 3 cups whilst balancing her pet cat on her head.
John J

Tiny air bubbles in a flask of hot acid can reach temperatures higher than the temperature of the surface of the sun!
Matthew W

In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees. (seriously)
Stephen G G

Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons
Andrew F

Nobody is allowed to die in parliament. If anyone does die there, the body is removed before the death certificate is issued. This is because the Palace of Westminster is a royal palace and anyone dying in a royal palace is eligible for a state funeral.
Julie R

Isn't it funny how racists are quite often the exact same people obsessed with tanning themselves as dark as possible? I'd point it out to them, but they'll beat me with sticks I think...
Stacie, Hatfield

The picture of the mona lisa has no eyebrows as it was the fashion to remove them at the time.
Abi M

Did you know that polar bear fur isn't white - it's clear?
Jon B

You should never use level 8 hugs on a Monday morning - I'd suggest a level 6 maximum
Jules, Swansea

a woodpeckers tounge is long enough to wrap around its head twice.
dawn C

That if you rearrange the letters in the word "Playstation" you can make "A last Pin toy" Not that it makes sense, but it does have the word toy in it and it took me ages to figure out.
Daniel I

White cats with blue eyes are usually deaf. White cats with no eyes are usually blind.
Christina W

Antarctica has only one ATM machine
Emma H

The saying the whole nine yards comes from the second world war where nine yards is the common length of machine gun ammunition belts
Andrew B

The cucumber is a fruit.
Michael J

In 1985, a pregnant women was falsely accused of shoplifting a basketball.
Tim E

I'm constantly being asked "Why do we never see baby pigeons, but so many adults?", so I thought I'd clear up the matter once and for all. The answer is simple: ALL pigeons you see in city centres are babies. Prior to adulthood, the babies leave the crowded cities for the open mountain tops of the Alps where they grow to a wingspan of 8 to 10 ft, preying upon small animals and the occasional rambler.
Snell, Lufbra

Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.
Kyle A

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Alison H

The pumpkin is actually a fruit.... Weird eh?
Matt B

Did you know why hamburgers are called hamburgers, but don't contain ham? Apparently, during a trip to Asia in the early 17th century, a German merchant noticed that the nomadic Tartars softened their meat by keeping it under their saddles. The motion of the horse pounded the meat to bits. The Tartars would then scrape it together and season it for eating. The idea of pounded beef found its way back to the merchant's home town of Hamburg where cooks broiled the meat and referred to it as it as Hamburg meat. Bet you didn't know that!
John M

The collecting of beer mats is called tegestology
Mike H

Here are a couple of potentially very useful anagrams of 'i want one of those' for your marketing folks: * 'a tenth woof noise' (perfect for attracting the wealthy dog lover) * 'Oh, a foot entwines!' (fetish enthusiasts will be queueing up). I hope you're grateful - it took me hours.
ian B

The Mona Lisa doesn't have any eyebrows
Sinead , Rosscarbery

A snail can sleep for three years
Claire P

23% of photocopier errors worldwide are caused by people photocopying their buttocks.
Michelle R

Milk chocolate contains less sugar than tomato ketchup
Jaboodi, Ely

When basketball player Chuck Nevitt, who played for North Carolina state, was asked by his coach to explain why he seemed nervous at training he replied "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt."
David H

One ting I'm sure you don't know is that Tonsurephobia is the fear of haircuts.
Patrick S

The fastest ever recorded speed of a chicken is 9mph
Lynn K

A shrimp's heart is in its head
David K

Ants don't die in a microwave because they are so minute, that they can dodge the waves. And therefore survive.
Abigail R

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end
Chris H

Did you know that on the 5th May, 1967, we launched our first satelite into space?
Calum M

The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side
Sarah-Jayne W

a chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
Zahrah J

Contrary to popular opinion, Kingsbridge, Devon is a rubbish place to go on holiday!
Catriona B

Genuphobia is a fear of knees
Paul R

Babies start dreaming before they are even born.
Manish D

"Yeti" literally translates as "that thing over there"
Chris P

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
David B

On average we will live for 2 billion 475 million, 5,076 seconds.
Diane M

It is illegal to walk across the Minnesota-Wisconsin border with a duck on your head, althoug I'm not sure why
Ben W

scientists after many years of research have found that people with below average IQ's read short messages with their finger over the left mouse key. Too late now
steve, kings lynn

Ankor Wat in Cambodia is the largest religious temple in the world!
Thomas H

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times
Paul T

My cat likes going in the Attic.
Russ G

I carry a small piece of silver in my wallet in case of economic collapse.
Michael P

If you were to board a plane and fly eastward around the world, arriving back at the point of departure, you would experience less time than you would had you not travelled; you would be a tiny tiny tiny bit younger than you would be if you hadn't flown around the world!
Edward H

I don't like honey ... bee spit and pollen ... what is there to like?
Dawn R

If you put a small piece of charcoal in the water when arranging flowers, it keeps the water pure and odourless.
Stephen N

The Luxembourgish National Football Team didn't win a competitive match for 12 years between 1995 and 2007.
Peter E

The origins of bad luck from walking under a ladder: Originally from ancient Egypt where triangles represented the three most sacred gods and so had special powers. If you walked through the triangle formed by a ladder, floor and wall then you were defying the gods.
Alex T

September 19th is: International Talk Like A Pirate Day
Robert B

People stick out their tongue when they concentrate as the area of the brain being used is the same as that for processing motor input. By sticking out the tongue motor input is suspended and so provides less interference. This allows the person to concentrate more.
Kris B

Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
Victoria S

The mandibles of the trap-jaw ant close at speeds up to 145 mph, the fastest predatory strike in the animal kingdom
Gordon L

At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.
sarah P

The anagram of Dormitory is Dirty Room!
Elizabeth G

Hellenologophobia - is the fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology :) humm... got to love those scientists ;)
Matthew C

In 1929 the Soviet Union introduced a revolutionary calendar in which every working month had 30 days and the remaining 5 or 6 days were 'monthless' holidays. In this calendar, there existed a February 30 in the years 1930 and 1931; the revolutionary calendar was abandoned in 1931.
Dave K

Jill Freud, the wife of Sir Clement Freud (writer, comedian and grandson of Sigmund) was the original inspiration for Lucy Penvensie from the Chronicles of Narnia
Sarah W

"Being there in a jiffy" may be practically impossible as a "jiffy" is a real unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
Darren W

Termites are cockroaches! If you fellows can take "Yank" (U.S.) money for products/services, then we deserve to be in the running for a new Playstation...come on, have a heart!
maurice W

Japan is made up of over 6000 islands
Dan F

100,000 cubic feet of water pours over the Niagra Falls every second.
Chris B

Babies don't like green veg because their taste buds form to stop them being poisoned and green veg tastes bitter, like a poison would
Rebecca P

Some people think the $1 dollar bill is unlucky because it has so many 13s on it. It has 13 stars, 13 stripes, 13 arrows, 13 steps and an olive branch with 13 leaves.
Helen L

There is no word for 'breakfast' in Luxembourgish.
Malcolm H

Cool chocolate facts: One small bar of milk chocolate has more protein than a banana. Chocolate also contains Vitamins A1, B1, B2, C, D and E as well as calcium, potassium, sodium and iron. Finally, Chocolate contains phenylethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love. . . chocolate Yum!
Mark H

It takes less energy to import a tomato from Spain than to grow them in this country because of the artificial heat needed. The man who was the voice of one of the original Daleks, Roy Skelton, also did the voices for George and Zippy in Rainbow. Bill Gates does not have an iPod. (I'm not sure these are linked, but are cool facts nonetheless. Ed.)
Anthony H

pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers
Ian R

It takes between 85000 and 140000 crocuses to make a kilo of saffron.
Robert J

By the year 2023, over half of the UK population will be over 50.
Tim M

In 1973 Queen released a record under the pseudonym of Larry Lurex called "I can hear music"
Denise M

Pope John Paul II was made an honorary Harlem Globetrotter in the year 2000!
James F

The UK's flag is actually called the Union Flag. The Union Jack is what it is called when flying at the front of a ship.
Abiy W

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
Jun Y

Despite their names, Hermit Crabs live in colonies of over 100. Well, you didn't say it had to be relevant!
Gary H

It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's Whiskey in the town in which it is produced!
Andrew N

'Poppycock' comes from the Dutch 'pappe kak' - which means a bowel movement of the consistency of porridge.
Chris, Eccles

St. George was a muslim.
Jay, Liverpool

The reason your eyes sting when you cut onions is because a chemical reaction occurs between the water in your eyes and the enzymes released from the onion, when it is cut, to make Sulphuric acid. You start crying to dilute the acid so your eyes don't dissolve!! Ace!!
Adam P

Admiral Nelson never actually wore an eyepatch. Although his right eye was badly damaged in 1794 no contemporary portrait shows him with an eyepatch. It was included in portraits after his death to add pathos. Despite what people think they've seen, the Trafalgar Square column has no eyepatch.
Tim L

They have square watermelons in Japan ... they stack better
Clifford A

A Chinese Scientist discovered that the Earth is round during the Han Dynasty by measuring the sun and moon's path in the sky. He recorded this fact down in the imperial records but went unnoticed until it was unearthed recently but Chinese archaeologists.
Robert F

The world record for continuous pogo stick jumping is 41 hours
William F

In 2001 there were more than 300 banana-related accidents in Britain.
Emily Q

The smallest mammal in the world is the bumblebee bat!
Mark W

My wife says I have obsessive compulsive tendencies but it only took me 15 minutes to decide how to phrase that question. Well, closer to 14 minutes and 53 seconds to be honest.
Liam L

Kevlar, superglue, cellophane, Post-it notes, photographs, and the phonograph all emerged as a result of laboratory blunders.
Scott B

Do crabs think we walk sideways?
David T

the terminal velocity of a falling cat is half that of an adult human, 60 mph and 120 mph respectively.
Jamie S

The microwave oven was an accidental discovery during World War 2 whilst developing radar which bounced microwaves off the enemy's war machines to detect their presence.
Lynne O

If you pour Baileys into a glass of Port, it goes completely solid (and rather rubbery). It also tastes disgusting, but in a good way.
Alex B

Average number of squirts from a cow's udder needed to yield a gallon of milk : 345
A T C

In Alaska, it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an aircraft or another flying vehicle. It is also illegal to push a live moose out of a moving aircraft.
Matt O

Tarantulas explode if you drop them.
Nicola H

I should be working rather than entering this competition because I have to prepare for a meeting later on today, but I just can't be bothered.
Matthew S

Eyes have evolved many times, independently, in different species, but there are only around 8 different kinds of eye to ever have evolved. We've got one of them (well, two.. but you know what I mean).
Gerry A

The fear of Friday 13th is called Paraskevidekatriaphobia
Paul M

The Ottoman Empire once had seven emperors in seven months. They died of (in order): burning, choking, drowning, stabbing, heart failure, poisoning and being thrown from a horse.
Andy C

daddy longlegs have the most potent venom in the world, but have no teeth to administer it!!!
mark M

Ostriches urinate on their own legs to keep cool, and 40,000 americans are injured by toilets every year. (We're not sure that there's a connection. Ed.)
Steven D

I can get my tongue up my right nostril, but not my left nostril.
Mark S

You cannot make a pineapple jelly set!
Moosey, Yorkshire

C3PO is the first character to ever speak in Star Wars.
Will D

The minimum number of people you need to have present in a room so that you have a 50:50 chance of having the same birthday as someone... is 23. and a pineapple is classified as a berry.
Zoe L

All boys grow taller than their mothers
Catherine G

Oprah Winfrey was originally called Orpah but her name was misspelt on her birth certificate as Oprah.
Pardeep M

My geography teacher thinks that in 20 years time gaint crabs will take over the coast line...OK...
Jessica, Cambridge

Jeyes Fluid kills bird flu. I don't know how they've proved this but they claim it does. This isn't much use due to the lack of bird flu however
Stephen, Belfast

The indent on a brick is called a 'frog'...
Paul C

Bet you didn't know that my gran lived to 102 years of age?
Yvonne B

In Casino Royale, the perfume bottle in Vesper's bag is Melograno by Santa Maria Novella.
Christina C

Aeschylus, who was a Greek playwright and also fought in a war, died when an eagle dropped a tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a rock! (errrr, O.K. if you say so. Ed.)
Laura B

There are five years in a quinquennium.
Paul C

ive spent the last few hours browsing over these comments whilst working. was it worth it? i think so, although i did get fired because of it
matt

The circumfrence of the rim of a pint glass is greater than it's height!
Adrian P

Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it is all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and it is all organized by the Italians. Zing!
Alf Horde-Swindle, bookcase

The average elephant produces 50 pounds of dung each day.
Gemma M, Wordsley

St. Bernard dogs do not carry kegs of brandy, and never have.
Gemma M, Wordsley

Nooooo, croissants are Polish and cuckoo clocks are German. Sit up, slackers.
Ulrika Messina, Jusjus

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink.
Gemma M, Wordsley

Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
Gemma M, Wordsley

The numbers eleven and twelve come from the latin words which translate as move back to the first hand (for when counting to eleven on your fingers)
Edward S

Never trust a bald barber, he has no repect for your hair
Dave The Rave, Runcorn

If moths like the light so much, why dont they come out during the day
Dave B, Cheshire

Chickens get high when they eat laburnum
Abi J

The second most spoken word in the world is "OK"
Chantal Lyons, Sevenoaks

Every human has a unique tongue print.
Sarah M

The faster a kangaroo hops, the less energy it burns!
Sarah A

I found a paper hankie lying on the ground in what looked like a politician's notes.I chucked it away because it was obviously a tissue of lies.
andrew H

If all time is relative there can be no such concept as being, discuss...
James T

Did you know that Boris Karloff was the original inspiration for the first illustrations of the Incredible Hulk.
Adam B

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in each and every section of the Dewey Decimal classification system.
Gareth P

when Guniea pigs get excited they do something called popcorning.
Gary E

Istanbul is the only city in the world on 2 continents
Annette T

A mole can dig a hole 300ft deep in one night.
Matt G

If it wasn't for venetian blinds it would be curtains for all of us!
Paul, Eastleigh

If olives make olive oil and sunflowers make sunflower oil, do babies make baby oil?
Sam H, Monmouth

"rhythms" is the longest word in the English language that does not contain any vowels
Susan K

£399.99, the new sale price of a PS3 at some UK stores, could also buy you: 9 months gym membership for an exercise-deprived gamer; a 9ct Gold Solid Curb Chain from Argos; or 16.66 goats from Oxfam.
Elton C

Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent..... while living in London, he was lodging with an Irish family, and picked up some of the language from them. not a lot of people know that.....
steve K

The plastic bit on the end of you shoe lace is called an aglet.
Edward D

Did you ever wonder what the WD in WD-40 stands for? The name was lifted right out chemist Norm Larsen's laboratory notebook. Way back in 1953, he was trying to concoct an anti-corrosion formula, which worked on the basic principle of displacing water. On his 40th try, Larsen finally got it right. Hence the name WD-40. It literally means Water Displacer, 40th try.
Mark W

More people are conceived in December than any other month.
Hannah P

A rat can last longer without water than a camel
Phil H

The parachute was invented before the aeroplane.
Nathan F

Man invented washing up liquid in the bronze age using animal fats and ash from the fire.
Helen H

"You'll get what you've alway got - If you do what you've always done!"
Arnie, Westham - The Moon

A new island (called 'Warming Island') has just been discovered 400 miles north of the Arctic Circle in eastern Greenland after the ice sheet covering it melted.
James W

Nick Drake turned down Chris De Burgh from joining his school band for "being too small".
Alan K

You never see baby pigeons, do you?
Leesa R

In a lifetime, the average house cat spends approximately 10,950 hours purring
Paul E

Einstein never learned to drive.
Michaela F

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine eye".
Roger O

When I sent this entry I had £4.05 in change in my left pocket
John B

The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
Dave H

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
Janice P

There are no trees in Orkney
Chris M

An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.
Karen P

The word "Avon" is Anglo Saxon for river, so all the rivers of that name in England are actually called the "River River"
Stuart W

Four tablespoons of ketchup has about the same amount of nutrition as a ripe tomato
David G

"Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand; "lollipop" with your right.
Simon G

10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment
David G

Using sign language a Gorilla named Coco took an IQ test and scored 95 out of 100
James G

When the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers play football at home, the stadium becomes the state's third largest city.
Paula F

too much vending machine coffee gives you stomach cramps, but too much work without vending machine coffee lubrication gives you insanity so i know which one i'll be choosing..
adam B

I have just wasted 1 hour of my working day by reading every post on your list!!! What a day!
michele, Retford

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words!
James D

The Rhesus Macaque is characterised as a vociferous monkey.
James L

Mermaids consider Badger meat a delicacy
sam B

Koalas have fingerprints like humans
Chris A

Bannanas are a herb.
John W

The guy who plays Doctor Cox in Scrubs (John C. McGinley) part-owns a restaurant with Willem Dafoe.
Andrew R

The red spot on Jupiter is actually a storm which is so big you could fit Earth within its boundaries 3 time.
Sean B

i was once offered a recording contract after playing in the metro in paris
darren L

Frank Beard was the only member of ZZ-Top not to have a beard.
Marc B

Antony Worrall Thompson (the small round TV Chef)swam the English Channel when he was 16 (I'd like to see that now!).
Suzanne R

4,000 people are injured by tea pots every year
Anne L

A rat can tread water for 3 days
Keeth G

The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Martin P

Has anyone realised yet why it's always in the last place you look.....?
Lottigay

At the end of a bout, fencers still shake hands with their non-sword hand. This from the time when it was prudent to keep hold of your sword in case your opponent tries something sneaky whilst you're in reach.
Eu Jet S

Behind every suscessful man stands a suprised mother-in-law
Tell it to Tillie , London

You can touch moonrock in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
Jeff F

Sun Tzu was a great military tactician.
david C

Guinea pigs and rabbits can't sweat
Louise O

My cat is the greatest frog catcher of all time!
Jane C

Did you know that it takes a train travelling at 125mph around 1.25 miles to stop? (Also, do you know what kind of mess it makes when someone is stupid enough to get in the way?)
Darren W

The heaviest element that has been produced in weighable amounts is Californium.
William M

Coconuts kill more people than sharks.
Magdalena H

If you run a current through a slice of toast it has an IQ of 5
Amy C

The Huntsmen spider is the only species of spider that has lungs
ian F

I am the current town crier champion of Wessex
James B

Ex Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was on the university science team which developed the first portable ice cream machines used in ice cream vans
Paul T

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 BC
Bob N

That you can be any age to serve alcohol but have to be 18 to drink it.
Penni M

Paris taxies are named after an Irish Saint - Fiachra
Ethna D

Fill a swimming pool with water, try and walk across it, and ofcourse you sink. However, fill said pool with custard, and you WILL be able to walk from one side to the other! Honest!
Kristel, Essex

Why is the milka cow lilac? Is it GM?
ooka kooka kaka kooka

The only book that has been distributed in more copies than the bible is the IKEA catalogue...
Tom G

The man who holds the record for surviving lightning strikes got hit for a fourth time while on his way to the records office!
Chris, Lichfield

An octopus will begin to eat itself when it gets stressed.
Jamie MacGregor, Bolton

The man who invented TNT blew himself up with it.
Paul Healy, Edinburgh

Venus is actually the hottest of the nine planets, this is because its dense atmosphere traps an incredible amount of the suns heat making it hotter than mercury which is actually closer to the sun.
Phil n Pat, leicester

clucking starts before sunrise but can continue throughout the morning
anouska M

Kissing a frog can cure cold sores because of a chemical on their skin
Emma H

I can't make egg fried rice. I tried last night, but I failed in a major way
Kirsty R

you can clean the bottom of dirty taps with white vinegar :]
Liz P

My mother bought one of your Man Lying Down ironing boards after seeing the link on your site - I don't think any other purchase has ever made her smile quite so much. Thanks.
Jason C

Women of the past used to wear an egg based makeup, so when they laughed, it cracked. Hence the term "you crack me up"
Will, Preston

Hitler was voted Time Magazine's "Man of the Year" in 1938
Gemma, West Mids

Before 1920 it was legal to send children through the mail in the US, albeit somewhat impractical.
Charles, Harrogate

In the whole of Britain, 337,000 tons of baked beans are consumed each year.
Charles S

Before he became famous, Steven Spielberg directed an episode of Columbo in 1971
Jackie C

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
Heidi M

Iceland is Europes second largest producer of bananas
Jon, Plymouth

it is the bacteria on a tarantula's fangs that cause damage to humans. the spiders themselves are not venomous.
Jono H

The Canary Islands are named after dogs - not yellow birds. (The species of bird was named after the islands.)
Lyn R

torchwood is a anagram of doctor who
paul S

In California there is a $500 fine for detonating nuclear devices within city limits.
Simon the techie, St Annes

A mouse has more bones than a human!
Nick C

Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows to mourn the death of a cat
Nick C

There are more moves possible in a game of chess than particles in the universe.
Paul J

The QE2 only does six inches to the gallon. And you thought trucks were bad.
Alice, Winchester

It is impossible to determine both the position and momentum of an electron orbiting a nucleus at the same time.
Douglas A

Snails can sleep for up to three years, bravo!
Lisa S, Exmouth

Crayfish urinate through their heads
Louise O

Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of normal water.
Sarah M

A pint of pure water weighs a pound and a quarter.
Roo, Birmingham, UK

A ten-gallon hat holds three-quarters of a gallon
Tom T

Did you know 60 people die every year from 10 pin bowling accidents?!?
Sabrina C

Contrary to common belief, stick insects are actually insects, not just insect shaped sticks
Dan, Longdon

If at first you don't succeed, try again, then quit, there is no point in fooling yourself
Dan, Longdon

The sun weighs 2 billion billion billion tons.
Catherine H

Seaweed can grow up to 12 inches per day!
Alison I

it takes 500 peanuts to make one 12 ounce jar of peanut butter
stephanie W

In response to Gemma P's "fact", a pregnant gold fish isn't a twit, because goldfish can't be pregnant, also I'm a swotty little know-it-all who is addicted to learning strange and completely useless facts.
Jasmin D, Ely

A group of uniforms are called a blessing!
Stephanie B

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!
Victoria S

Why did the scarecrow get a promotion? Because he was out standing in his field. Now that's comedy.
Snell, here, there and everywhere

Mum was right when she said never cut towards yourself.
Rob N, Auckland NZ

7 of the 10 Deadliest snakes of the world are found in Australia
Rob N, Auckland NZ

Only six people died in the Great Fire of London
Simon H

111,111,111 x 111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321
martin C

I bet you I can type faster than you. Open Microsoft Word and type =rand(200,99) anywhere in the document and press enter. ( This will work on version 2000, 2003 and XP. ). Now that's fast. PS - you now owe me a pint.
The Geek, Online somewhere....

Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away.
vikki K

I breed weasels
Suzanne R

The statues of carriages drawn by 4 prancing horse IN A ROW.... is called a Quadriga
Rachel P C

Jellybabies beleive in an almighty God known as 'The hand'
Paul W

Happiness is not a thing in itself - it is a contrast to things which are not pleasant.
Jamie M

did you know that one ounce of gold can be hammered to the size of a tennis court
Jacqui L

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA
Jacqui R

you have the funniest april fools stuff ever on this site!
leigh F

Tractors are magic!......they can drive down a lane and turn into a field!!!
Kelly C

The reason pirates are called pirates is just because the AAAAARRRRRR!!
adam H

Madrid is the only European capital not situated on a major waterway
Stephen H

The definition for the calculation for easter is : "Easter Sunday is to be the first Sunday after the first full moon after the 21st of March. If this full moon falls on a Sunday, it is to be the following Sunday."
Simon K

Have a person hold one arm straight out to the side, palm down, and instruct him to maintain this position. Then place two fingers on his wrist and push down. He'll resist. Now have him put one foot on a surface that's a half inch higher (a few magazines) and repeat. This time his arm will cave like the French. This is because by misaligning his hips, you've offset his spine. Your brain senses that the spine is vulnerable, so it shuts down the body's ability to resist.
Bill E

The WD in WD40 stands for water displacement whilst the 40 represents the number of attempts to perfect the product
John G

Why does someone belive you when you say there are 4 billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
Margaret B

If you have builders on your roof hammering, like I have had all day, just waft the smell of a takeaway out the window and they stop hammering to go eat!
Kate E

If you tipped-up Norway onto it's most southern point, and let it fall forwards, it's northern most point would land in Morocco!
Ruth C

Water is the only thing that is lighter in its solid form than in its liquid
Emma H

The word 'chocolate' comes from the Aztecs
Lynn G

"Eleven plus two" is an anagram of "Twelve plus one"
Darren, Kent

If bleach kills 99.99% of all known germs, what is the 00.01% germ and why can't we kill it? Something to worry about.
Iduno, COVENTRY

Heinrich Schenker created a stupid and completely meaningless theory of music analysis.
Charlotte Y

Hmm, difficult because searching for all those eggs has driven all thoughts out of my head and replaced them with a list of things I simply must buy for my friends!!
Abigail W

The Ancient Greeks didn't have a specific word for the colour blue.
Karen S

You can't fold a piece of paper (of any size) in half and in half again (etc) more than 8 times!!
Jess, Newcastle

When searching for parking in Liverpool, know how to read maps and road signs or you may end up making your first ever trip to Wales.
Victoria M

In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.
Ben H

use talc to get rid of unwanted woodlice, they die without adequate moisture
Michelle B

Cheese does not give you nightmares, it contains tryptophan which helps promote sleep.
Karen J

In Goa there is a hairdressing shop named "Tease and Blow". Harks back the extremely witty League of Gentlemen.
Lisa, Southampton

You can tell if a spider is a boy or a girl by looking closely at it's palps (the little things that look like legs / antennae by the head, but aren't). If they're smooth, it's a lday, if they have a little bulb shape on the end, it's a fella! Anna xxx
Anna B

The Impossible Quiz is not actually impossible.
Annie J

my first boyfriend's mother's butcher was noddy holder's uncle!
L E

Hippos kill more people than sharks.
Elliot M

I now have conclusive, first hand evidence that going to work with a hangover is not fun.
Snell, Crowthorne

Cumbria council filled in 2200 potholes last year (2006)
Phil A

Carrots used to naturally be purple coloured, but artificial addition of beta carotene in farming methods worldwide, has permanently altered the course of the carrot gene pool, and made them orange coloured.
Gsp, London

In 1989, the space shuttle Discovery carried 32 fertilized chicken eggs into orbit.
James B

In the 80's there were 3 bands/artistes who had hits in the chart at the same time called 'The Power of Love' although they were all different songs. Who were they? A: Huey Lewis and the News, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jennifer Rush
Erica B

The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Periwinkle Blue.
Charlotte S

Did you know that Swiss Rolls are not swiss?!
Kathryn H

When Heinz ketchup leaves the bottle, it travels at a rate of 25 miles per year.
Sam S

The Emporer Napoleon was afraid of cats
David K

Each of the suits on a deck of cards represents the four major pillars of the economy in the middle ages: heart represented the Church, spades represented the military, clubs represented agriculture, and diamonds represented the merchant class.
Pamela P

My cat, Topsy, washes her paws in her water dish. She's a bit posh.
Ali C

Karoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese
Sarah G

The sound of a whip cracking is a mini sonic boom.
Leo R

Guy Pearce was a body builder for a time, and won the Mr Natural Victoria title.
Philip P

The 7-Oscar winning film Lawrence of Arabia did not have a single female speaking character. The only female in the film is a camel called Gladys!
Lee C

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
bonnie N

It takes 27 litres of water to grow a lettuce, but 10000 litres for a portion of steak
Wendy M

My granny was a wrestler.
June C

Disneyworld is bigger than the worlds five smallest countries.
Tarran T

Woodpeckers have an ear on the end of their tounge. No word of a lie, buddy.
Nicolas W

There is more fibre in one parsnip than in three shredded wheat!
Owen M

Woks were originally made in Woking (possibly)
Lee E

Butterflies taste through their feet
Bilbo B

Attila the Hun bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night.
Jon M

Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Bethan R

Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.
Will A

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath. Apparently
Tim L

I am a 42 year old mother of two who loves Chelsea FC and your website in almost equal measure!!
Alison M

My mother's cousins cousin was Ray Bolger, who played the scarecrow in the wizard of Oz.
RICHARD H

Andy Warhol had a huge crush on John F Kennedy
Oonagh G

Antarctica contains over 70% of the world's water, 90% of the world's ice and yet receives less rain than the Sahara so is officailly designated as a desert.
Darrell F

The eruption of Krakatoa caused the loudest noise in history- it was heard over 1930 miles away in Australia.
Alan S

A group of owls is called a parliament.
E W

Putting pepper on your food makes it easier for your tummy to absorb the vitamins and minerals from your food.
Diana H

A pregnant goldfish is known as a twit.
Gemma P

pop-ty-ping is Welsh for 'microwave'.
Sian R

In Sweden '@' is called "snabel-a" wich means a "trunk with an a"
Heledd D

Last time I told somebody something they didnt know i was required to kill them ...
Robert A

I assembled a table from Italy the other day. From the accompanying instructions, I learned a Phillips screwdriver is called a cacciavite inglese, or English screwdriver, in Italian. [vite is screw.] Which is odd, because Phillips was American.
sacha H

According to aztec calculations, the world will end in 2012
jamie S

I love IWOOT and have even got my workplace hooked, we recently bought a can crusher for the office and it has been a great hit!!!
Wendy B

Cow's won't actually explode if they are not milked!
Rachel C

The 70's super group Led Zeppelin was so called because when Keith Moon hered about their formation he said they would drop like a lead ballon
Harry R

Staines isn't as bad as you would imagine.
Marjory M

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Andy P

The Tsar's of Russia furnished their palaces with fake marble, because at the time it was more expensive than real marble, and therefore a way of showing off their wealth.
Alexander S

In alabama it is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
Lauren H

nothing rhymes with purple and silver
Mandy K

If you write out the numbers one to one hundred, you never use the letter "a"
Graeme S

Space is beige
David M

Tapirs have no eyelids
Sarah G

I'm in love with a member of your staff
David R

I am currently sitting next to one of the most famous men in Britain. He says hello.
james V

kamikazi pilots wear helmets...WHY???
Butters, Folkestone

In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's nuclear weapons combined.
Tiffany T

We only ever use 2/3 rds of our brain capacity.... makes you wonder what happens to the other 2/3 rds!!!!!!!
lynne B

A singing birthday card holds more computer power than was available in the 1950s
Carl B

there are over 5,500 islands in the British Isles
Mark G

Apples are a better wake up method than caffeine
Charlie J

Out of roughly 1,250,000 animal species, only 20 are penguins
Ben M

A 1999 survey of 25,500 standard English-language dictionary words found that 93 percent of them have been registered as dot-coms.
mathew H

A chihuahua is technically a type of rat NOT a dog.
Elaine B

Flying Monkey is ace... although terrifies my mate's daughter... bless her
Chris H

Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?
Peter, Hartlepool

My mum used to go out with the captain of the QE2
Mark C

kakorrhaphiophobia is the fear of failure!!
Tony K

I'm knitting a Sudoku blanket!
Linda R

I want one of those solved anagram style in two words is: footnote wahines; or three words: a footnote newish; four words: a foot nose whiten; five words: a ef eh notion stow. This is now gettting silly so I will stop. Cheers.
gary R

I love this site
Anne J

Naomi is "I moan" backwards.
George P

Rolling Stones band member Bill Wyman married a 19 year-old model Mandy Smith in 1988. At the same time Wyman's son was engaged to Mandy Smith's mother. If his son had married Smith's mother, Wyman would have been the step grandfather to his own wife.
Bob N

my dad designed the light sabers for the original Star Wars Film!
Jodie M

Every time i try to post here it never comes up. I hope this one does. (Kazam! Ed.)
Nick M, Nottingham, Sutton.

A boxing ring is square...
mrBoxes, Singapore

The bat is the only animal that can walk, swim and fly.
Roger L., Atlanta

Genuine guiness world records include the worlds largest dog biscuit.
Tony, London

in the wizard of oz.. dorothy trips up as she picks up the blanket of grass to put on the lion!very funny to watch cos she carries on like its not happened!!
erin brennan, stockton

my star wars name is buelagen. THANX DOMINION and my mate's is joracaen she says thanks too
liz, i cant remmber

Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs
Toby, New York

If you eat 200 grams of mini eggs in one sitting it will make you feel very happy for ten minutes then very sad for the rest of the day.
Tessa, London

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds. (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)
Rosie, Chesterfield

Just found my car with the drivers window pulled from the car, folded from the frame. It begs the question; If you wanted my CDplayer why didn't you break the window with the brick behind my tyre that stops the car rollin away instead of strainin your arms yanking my door??? Now I gotta pay for a new door instead of just the glass. I Love Salford...
Mark Tnzafn, Salford, MCR

there isnt a word that rhymes with orange
john wood, esher

If you mouth the word Colourful it looks like you're actually saying 'I Love You'
Kaylee, Romford

A rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Loreli, Germantown, MD USA

The only thing I could find to put under my cheese, was a slice of toast. I think I may be onto something.
Mr Short, S'aff London

If pro is the opposite of con, and progress is good, what does that make congress...?
Dave

Why do people pay to go up tall buildings, and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
Jen, London

The volume of water in Loch Ness equates to 1,964,000 million gallons. Thats more than all the English & Welsh freshwater lakes & rivers combined.
Trish, Leicester

The letter X doesn't work on my keyboard. Hey, wait a minute...
Snell, Reading

St. Nicholas was bishop of the Turkish town of Myra in the early fourth century. It was the Dutch who first made him into a Christmas gift-giver, and Dutch settlers brought him to America where his name eventually became Santa Claus.
Louis D

If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
Louis D

The single-blade window cleaning squeegee was invented in 1936 by Ettore Sceccone, and is still the most common form of commercial window cleaning today.
Louis D

A car traveling at a constant speed of 60 miles per hour would take longer than 48 million years to reach the nearest star (other than our Sun), Proxima Centauri. This is about 685,000 average human lifetimes
Louis D

Did you know that by law it is illeagal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day? (Banned by Oliver Cromwell, and the law had yet to be repealed).
Aaron Smith

A greenfly born on a Tuesday can be a grandparent by Friday
ellen bateman

According to Genesis 1:20-22 the chicken came before the egg.
mark davies

If the population of the Earth continued to increase at its present rate, by 3530 A.D. the total mass of human flesh and blood would equal the mass of the Earth. By 6826 A.D. it would equal the mass of the known universe.
mark davies

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
phillip rosser

The word 'love' meaning 'no score' comes from the the French L`oeuf which means the egg.
Amanda Jackson

There are no words that rhyme with orange, purple or silver
Shayanthan Rajakumar

Donaly duck was banned in Finland because he has never once worn trousers
Shayanthan Rajakumar

During World War 2, the Oscars were made of wood
Shayanthan Rajakumar

There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
louis dequincey

Why do you never see baby pigeons?
dawn eastwood

The shortest war on record lasted just 38 minutes. It was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896.
louis dequincey

One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
Matthew Nott

It is estimated that millions of trees in the world are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury nuts and then forget where they hid them!
Matthew Nott

The phobia of colours is called chromatophobia
Edward Whately-Smith

The american diner slang for sausages in mashed potatoes is zeppelins in a fog
Edward Whately-Smith

The only tube line with connections to every other tube line is the Jubilee line
Edward Whately-Smith

the statue of liberty weighs 225 tons, from the ground to the tip of the torch it is 305'1 and and the length of the nose is 42'0""
Edward Whately-Smith

Only two animals can get leprosy...humans and armadillos.
Aaron Portis

The word 'gullible' isn't actually a word in the dictionary, go on, look it up.
Daniel Taylor

Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
Francis Bull

Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
Francis Bull

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
Gem N

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
gem n

Tony Blair was bottom of his School science class. The Prime Minister admits he was so bad that the teachers at Edinburgh's Fettes School used his work to illustrate how NOT to do it!
PETER CALLCUT

Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms
Ollie Newth

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.
Jonathan Riches

The space between your eyebrows is called the ophyron
caroline prime

Male elephant seals can have up to 2000 kilograms of blubber
Jon Payne

Don't believe it when food products say that they are 100% organic. Water cannot be organic.
Jonathan Riches

It is estimated that insects play a regular part in the diet of a staggering 3.5 billion people worldwide.
Nadine Payne

The average supercomputer has, on average, the equivilent processing power of three human brain cells
Matthew Nott

What was Captain Hook's name before Peter Pan chopped of his hand??
Michael Campbell

Apporximately 1600 people are bitten every year by other humans in New York.
Ian Marshall

Bank charges are unlawful and you can claim them back for up to six years although they may close your account so open a new one first
sandra payne

George Washington died the last hour of the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the 18th century.
Michael Campbell

To clean tarnished copper bottoms of pots and pans spread a little ketchup onto the bottom. Let it sit for about one minute. Wipe it clean and rinse.
Michael Campbell

US congressmen expressed suprise on learning in 1977 that it takes 15 months of learning at the Pentagons School of Music to turn out a bandleader but merely 13 months to train a jet pilot
Michael Campbell

There are five years in a quinquennium.
Erik Poulsen

The term 'Heavy Metal' was first used when a New York Times journalist described the sound at a Jimi Hendrix concert as 'like heavy metal falling from the sky'.
Greg Bayliss

Every 238 years, the orbits of Neptune and Pluto change making Neptune at times the farthest planet from the sun.
oliver langfield

Trees that are near street lights do not shed their leaves as fast as a tree that is in the country.
oliver langfield

what is the one thing u cant take out of a glass? no its not water... not air... its a crack... bet u didnt know that!
Corina Dawson

As an iceberg melts, it makes a fizzing sound because of the compressed air bubbles popping in the ice.
oliver langfield

Mario the nintendo mascot was originally knowns as Jump Man
Anthony Goddard

The most overdue book in the world was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College in Cambridge, England and was returned 288 years later.
oliver langfield

Ketchup was once used as a medicine in the United States. In the 1830's it was sold as Dr. Miles Compound Extract of Tomato.
oliver langfield

Most toilets flush in the key E flat.
oliver langfield

Birds do not sweat, as they do not have sweat glands.
oliver langfield

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
oliver langfield

It is possible to get high by licking a toad. The Cane Toad produces a toxin called bufotenine to ward off predators. When licked, this toxin acts as a hallucinogen
oliver langfield

Chocolate was used as medicine during the 18th century. It was believed that chocolate could cure a stomach ache.
oliver langfield

Queen Elizabeth II was Time Magazine's 'Man of The Year' in 1952.
oliver langfield

Although the first sighting of Yosemite Valley by non-Indian people was probably by members of the Joseph Walker Party in 1833\, the first actual known entry into the Valley was not until nearly 20 years later in March 1851 during the conflict between Gold Miners and native Indians. Almost 15 years later inspired by the scenic beauty of Yosemite and spurred on by the specter of private exploitation of Yosemite's natural wonders\, conservationists appealed to Senator John Conness of California. On June 30\, 1864\, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill granting Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias to the State of California as an inalienable public trust. This was the first time in history that a federal government had set aside scenic lands simply to protect them and to allow for their enjoyment by all people. This idea was the spark that allowed for Yellowstone becoming the first official national park a few years later\, in 1872.
Lorraine Crighton

Gloucestershire airport in England used to blast Tina Turner songs on its runways to scare birds away.
oliver langfield

A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
Louise Manley

Did you know that you are 176 times more likely to be murdered than to win the National Lottery.
Natalie Miller

1 in 18 people has a third nipple!!
Natalie Miller

If a tree fell in the woods . . . nobody would really care!
Chris Rutter

Esperanto was a languge created as a global language in 1887. It is said that esperanto is five times eaiser to learn than any other language\, however only 5 million people in the wold speak it today
Luke Wyatt

In 1870\, Jim Mace\, the British boxing champion\, fought an American challenger in a fight that lasted nearly 4 hours without landing one punch!
Kevin Gimbert

Herrings were once used to train hunting dogs. The well-trained dog would continue following the sent of the fox it was chasing rather than the false trail of the herring. nowadays\, a red herring refers to and distracting ultimately unimportant issue or fact
Luke Wyatt

Someone who plays tiddlywinks is techinally known as a winker.
Luke Wyatt

What's the difference between ignorance and indifferenece? I don't know and I don't care.
Swagerman Hendrik

A ten year old mattress weighs doule what it did when it was new\, because of all the 'debris' which it has absorbed throughout the years. That debris includes dust mites ( including their droppings and decaying bodies)\, pollen\, secretions\, excretions\, dandruff\, soil\, lint and a lot of perspiration\, of which the average person loses a quart of a day. Good Night!
leigh fenn

Reindeers enjoy bananas\,( really!)\, so leave a banana ( not a carrot ) and a mince pie when christmas eve and santa rolls around.
leigh fenn

Daniel Criag did not know how to play Poker before the film Casno Royale - An expert had to be hired to teach him.
Danh Nguyen

there is only one thing where the person who makes it doesnt want it\, the person who buys it doesnt need it and the person who uses it doesnt know it...a coffin!
Ellie Rudd

Charles Louis \Deacon\" Phillippe (originally Phillippi) (May 23\
Daniel Watts

Tomorrow Today will be yesterday
Ray Sharpe

On average smoking reduces your life expectancy by 8 years ... But\, a male smoker can still\, on average\, out live a male non-smoker by being castrated. This is because catration iincreases you life expectancy\, on average\, by 13 years!!
Leonard Rubio

If you break a piece of dry spaghetti\, it will always break in two places.
Jacqui Cheswick

my best friend has palms like dog paws
DANIELLE ROSS

7 million children leave mince pies and a drink for Santa on Christmas Eve.
julie kenny

In a \typical\" ejaculation of 250million sperm around only 1 Million are trying to reach the ovum and only 100 manage to do so. Around 150 million are there only to kill other mens sperm and the remainder die due to being too old before even attempting to reach the ovum."
Kieran Fowler

Weasels have 34 different sounds in their 'language' for porridge
Ian Taylor

you didn't know i was goimg to enter and you don't know if i am going to win....but you will before me!!
ian brown

The bible never mentions exactly three wise men\, just that three particular gifts where recieved gold\, frankincense and myrrh.
Kieran Fowler

there's a new origami channel starting on satellite TV soon. It's available on Sky paper view.
Steven young

Did you know that in the year 2000\, Pope John Paul II was named an \Honorary Harlem Globetrotter\"."
Jon Carter

Coca-cola didn't invent santa's image\, they just made it well known within America through advertising.
Kieran Fowler

use bicorbonate of soda\, hot water and place in a tray covered with silver foil to bring silver jewellry up perfectly.
heather newman

In Canada Santa's postcode is H0H 0H0. He has had it since 1982 and approximately 1 million pieces of mail bearing that code are recieved by Canadian post service every year.
Kieran Fowler

A google search of 'miserable failure' gives the first result of George Bush's official webpage.
Kieran Fowler

Roy Wood from Wizzard is turning on the pub Christmas lights on Rocester!
Andrew Lodge

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
Kieran Farnes

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
Kieran Farnes

Something I've LEARNED since last New Year (that you may not know) - is DON'T be sick down the back of a radiator.
Jayne Fisentzides

use old cds to make christmas decorations
vivien Pawson

Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave!!!
angela scrivener

In all three Godfather films, when you see oranges, there is a death (or a very close call) coming up soon.
Tracey Fitton

75 people die every year from playing twister
LEANNE DEMPSEY

If you could fold a standard single piece of paper in half 50 times it would strech all the way to the sun.
Robb Richards

There are more chickens in the world than humans
Gregory Flynn

The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear war
Gregory Flynn

More people are killed annually by donkeys than die in air crashes.
Gregory Flynn

In a year a person will have swallowed 14 insects whilst sleeping.
Chris Pennock

Everyone is continously moving whether they are awake or asleep
Connie Yeung

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it will digest itself.
jennifer palmer

A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
jennifer palmer

Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space, because passing wind in a spacesuit damages them.
jennifer palmer

The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin in World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
jennifer palmer

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow films down.
jennifer palmer

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
jennifer palmer

To lose weight, drink cold water. Your body has to expend extra calories to heat up the H2O in your stomach, resulting in a rise in your resting metabolic rate. In fact, in a 2003 German study researchers estimated that drinking two additional icy quarts a day would help you burn about 100 extra calories -- or the equivalent of a pound of fat every five weeks -- with no other changes in exercise or diet.
jennifer palmer

Basset Hounds can't swim.
Beverley Trott

Dogs can only see in black and white.
Wesley Richardson

If you have a slim chance, you have the same amount of chance as a fat chance.
Juan Figueras

It's illegal in Alabama to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.
Peter Taylor

In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.
Peter Taylor

It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
Peter Taylor

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans annually.
Richard Surbey

In Atlanta, Georgia, it is illegal to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole or street lamp.
Joanna Huckvale

Nicknames for rum include Barbados Water, Kill-Devil, Demon Water, Navy Neaters and Nelson's Blood
Christopher Steele

In an average lifetime, the average person sheds enough dead skin material to form a new 'thing' about the size of a small Jack Russel.
Ben Heymink

If I told you something you did not know, you would then know it. so it would not then be something you do not know?
Anthony Hall

I can hold a tennis ball by placing it between my big toe and the one next to it! If you want proof, i'll send you a picture!
Gerry Huckvale

In every episode of Seinfeld there is a Superman somewhere.
John Myers

A person uses approximately fifty-seven sheets of toilet paper each day.
helen cruse

If winners never quit and quitters never win, how are you supposed to quit while your'e ahead?
James Berry

A Giraffes tongue is 20 inches long, but It still can't lick behind it's ears.
Andy Parke

A Blue Whale's penis is longer than an elephant
Joseph Baker

Water is sticky put your finger in a bowl of water and some of it will stick to your finger
Chris Burgess

There are many different types of lightening. Not all bolts go from the sky to the Earth. Some form from the ground to the sky or remain in the sky and never hit earth.
Ben saunders

Listen is an anagram of Silent.
Trevor Hanley

If you lie on your back and stretch got your arms thats how tall you are!
Ben saunders

Every minute, 12 hectares of the tropical rainforest disappears due to deforestation.
Anna McQuitty

Did you now that the next person you meet has more arms than the average person?
S Wainwright

99% of people cannot lick their elbow
David Ford

There are 6667042810 people living on the planet, if you took £1 off each person you would have £6667042810 which would make you one of the richest people in the world!!!
Harrey Dun

In Dominica 76% of all babies are illigitimate.
Austin Danger Powers

Opening your mind to imagination is like cracking an apple with your thumb.
Elliot Boultwood

Loneliness makes the dead squirrel smile.
Elliot Boultwood

Siphonapterology is the study of fleas. We are born with 350 bones, and die with 206. No u.s president has had blue eyes, and I spend too much time on the internet
luke harris

Bagpuss was actually Orange & Yellow - he was coloured in with felt pens & the orange came out pink. I know this because My great grandma's best friend was Emily.
Hannah Phipps

Nobody likes my shoes.
Hannah Phipps

If you hold a dog over a cup of tea it makes swimming movements. It's true - I promise.
Hannah Phipps

Slugs have 4 noses
Hannah Phipps

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.
Hannah Phipps

Termites eat through wood twice as fast when listening to rock music.
Hannah Phipps

Every continent ends with the letter it starts with.
Hannah Phipps

I am terrified of bananas.
Hannah Phipps

Most toilets flush in the key of E flat.
Hannah Phipps

Alfred hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
Hannah Phipps

Camel's milk can't curdle.
Hannah Phipps

In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal. A strange but true ancient law!
Lee Duncan

When glass breaks, the cracks travel at 3,000 miles per hour!
Stephen Smith

Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
Stephen Smith

The average office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
Stephen Smith

You have no sense of smell when you are asleep.
Stephen Smith

John Travolta's jet was owned by Frank Sinatra before he bought it.
Scott Douglas

Why is there a light in the fridge but not in the freezer?
A. Warden

Months that begin with Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th!
A. Warden

All churches in Malta have to have two clocks on the outside!
lindsey wynne-jones

Casino Royale was the first ever James Bond movie to feature rain.
David Storey

If you spelled out numbers you wouldn't come across the letter 'a' until one thousand!
Emma Blake

There are more miles of canals in Birmingham than in Venice.
Edwin Chappell

Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registerd blood donors
lisa allen

Twinings tea is blended in Andover. Not India.
Eleanor Wilson

In the film King Kong, there are 43 continuity errors, such as when Anne is wet and then turns round to talk and is suddenly dry with re-done hair.
chris morris

It is illegal for a man to stand up and wee in sweden after 10pm
Jason McDaid

The descendants of cats that survived Britain's first atomic bomb test, can dive and swim after fish in the lagoon created by thexplosion on the Montebello Islands off Western Australia.
David Thomson

Despite its size, the largest thing a Blue Whale can swallow is a grapefruit.
Jeremy Wilkinson

The jam in Jaffa Cakes is made with apricots, not oranges.
Jeremy Wilkinson

Dreamt is the only word in the English dictionary that ends in mt.
Joanne Maguire

Bruce Lee was so fast they had to slow his movies down so people could see his moves.
Joanne Maguire

Roses are red, violets are blue, except of course they're not, they're violet.
Joanne Maguire

By laying on your back and raising your legs slowly, you cannot sink into quicksand.
Joanne Maguire

The Guiness Book of Records holds the world record for being the book most commonly stolen from libraries.
Joanne Maguire

a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
Christopher Steele

What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? They were all invented by women.
Joanne Maguire

It is physically impossible for a pig to look up to the sky.
Joanne Maguire

50% of people have never made or never recieved a phonecall.
Joanne Maguire

On average\, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily!
Joanne Maguire

The tallest man ever recorded in history was 2.72m (8 ft 11.1 in).
Sam Stoddart

The longest ear hairs ever were 13.2 cm.
Sam Stoddart

If you were to unravel your intestines into one long line and lay them on the ground, chances are you'd probably die.
Andrew Floyd

Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
Sam Stoddart

Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them, used to burn their houses down, hence the expression 'to get fired'.
Sam Stoddart

I was on the Graham Norton Show dressed up as Liza Minelli
Dominic Lenaghan

If the US government claims it has no knowledge of or interest in aliens, then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles?
Joanne Maguire

How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on.
Joanne Maguire

The Sanskrit word for war means "desire for more cows".
Joanne Maguire

Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Westaly Duignan

Humans share approx. 50% of their genes with bananas... Except me because my friends say I'm completely nuts.
Che Lee

Asparagus makes your pee yellow... Not from my own experience of course.
Che Lee

Approximately sixty circus performers have been shot from cannons. At last report, thirty-one of these have been killed.
emma hughes

The Statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide.
emma hughes

In 1982, the last member of a group of people who believed the Earth was hollow died.
emma hughes

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off!
Jon Carter

A rat can go without water for longer than a camel.
Lindsay Hamill

Average number of people airborne over the US at any given hour: 61,000
Elliott Hamilton

Bibliomancy is the practice by some people of opening the Bible at random and being guided for the day by whatever verse they see first
Elliott Hamilton

An area the size of Wales was recently left off an EU map
Iain MacDougall

Stewardesses is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand!
Janis Sadler

203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S
Janis Sadler

It deos not mtater waht oderr the lteters go in a wrod, you can sitll udnetasrnd waht it syas, as lnog as the frist and lsat lteter of the wrod is in the rghit palce.
Michaela Cooper

Starfish have no heart or brain
Rob Horler

There is 6 kilograms of gold in every cubic kilometre of sea water
Rob Horler

142 British people were injured in 1999 by not removing all the pins from new shirts
Matthew Nott

31 people have died in the U.K. since 1996 due to watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in
Matthew Nott

The day with the highest number of collect (reverse charge) calls is traditionally Fathers Day.
Matthew Nott

In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase 'Goodnight, sleep tight.'
Matthew Nott

Deja-vu is of course not a repetition of events. It is actually caused when neurones in our brain work the wrong way round, so they go to our memory first, grab somthing from it, and then to our perception. Quite logical when you think about it.
Bradley McManus

The verb to cleave is the only English word with two synonyms which are antonyms of each other: adhere and separate.
Laura Daley

Papaphobia is the fear of Popes.
Laura Daley

First World War pilots always suffered from terrible diarrhea\, due to the ball bearings in the engines\, being lubricated with Castor oil. The pilots then breathed it in all the flight.
Martin Lee

Florence Nightingale carried a pet owl round with her on her hospital rounds.
Geoff Dagger

Henry VIII only had 2 wives
Matt Rowan

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
Matthew Nott

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise
Matthew Nott

On average\, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year
Matthew Nott

People in the UK eat more tins of baked beans than the rest of the world combined
Matthew Nott

The average office worker spends 50 minutes a day looking for lost files and other items.
Matthew Nott

Bluebirds cannot see the color blue.
Matthew Nott

The chances of you dying on the way to get your lottery ticket is greater than your chances of winning
Matthew Nott

You have no sense of smell when you are sleeping
Matthew Nott

The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle
Matthew Nott

The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mile
Matthew Nott

Gloria Hunniford is my aunties cousin.
Glynis Lyttle

When climbing Kilimanjaro you will find that your bags of crisps expand and eventually explode.
Richard Murray

The longest recorded chicken flight is 13 seconds!!
Tracey Wright

A DAB radio uses 12% to 20% more energy than a normal analogue radio.
Gerald Oakham

One click of a mouse burns 0.0000024kcals of energy, so if you eat a chocolate bar you'll need to click your mouse 765,551,000 times to burn it off.
michelle cameron

74% of children eat the ears on their chocolate Easter bunnies first.
michelle cameron

If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
michelle cameron

One day someone will call me Sir, without adding 'you're making a scene'.
Jay Smith

To testify was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
michelle cameron

You cannot break a piece of dry spaghetti in half - it will always break into three or more pieces. basile Audoly and Sebastien Neukirch won the Ig Nobel Prize for Physics for proving why this happens.
Hazel Rea

Unless food is mixed with saliva you cannot taste it.
Louis De Quincey

Britain was the first place to have income tax
Shayanthan Rajakumar

If raw liver is left on a china plate in the fridge, it will be physically drawn to the milk in the fridge & will actually move towards it!
Jacqui Osborne

Laughter is the best form of medicine, unless you're diabetic...in which case it's insulin
Gary Hill

'I Want One Of Those' is an anagram of 'fetish owe to anon'
Darrell Felton

An "I'm feeling lucky" google search for "French military victories" will yield a suggestion for "French military failures" instead.
Bob

More of the same things meaning opposites: 1) Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites? 2) Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
Andrzej Zieleniewski, Salisbury

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
Andrzej Zieleniewski, Salisbury

The number 21 is spoken as 'twenty one'; the number 31 as 'thirty one' etc. Why then isn't the number 11 spoken as 'onety one' or 'firsty one'?
Andrzej Zieleniewski, Salisbury

Isn't it funny that when you lose something, you always find it in the last place you looked.
Andrzej Zieleniewski, Salisbury

If you stretch out your arms to the side, the distance from middle finger to middle finger is the same as your height
Sam , Stockton

the journey of a thousand miles starts with a broken fanbelt and a flat tyre
ashley, st larwence, jersey

"gift" translates from german to english as "poison"
Stacey, Grimsby

Did you know 'Gullable' is not in the dictionary
Barry, Liverpool

Many people believe that paper money (notes) is worth something. They are actually nothing more than a fancy i.o.u.
Ciaran, Egham

February 29th is not in fact the day added to the end of a year to make it a leap year, February 24th is and the occurance of the 29th is merely a consequence of this.
Mes

In the 1960s, a psychologist named Stanley Milgram set up an experiment where a number of volunteers believed they were giving an unseen 'learner' electric shocks if the learner got questions wrong. There were no electric shocks, but the learner acted as if they were. The study showed that more than half of the participants were willing to deliver a dangerously high voltage shock to the learner, who was screaming in pain the whole time, simply on the instructions of a guy in a white coat.
Jon B

In reply to Andy Norris - in Indiana Jones the temple oof Doom, the club is called Club Obi Wan
Ruthless, Essex

Has anybody ever bought a ball point pen? I know I haven't.
Henrydog 3 Bones, West Bridgford

When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head.
Emma Roids, Pratts Bottom

4 Rabbits can beat a Badger in a fight
Ian, Rocombe

Champagne and Baseball are English inventions, Chicken Tikka Masala comes from Glasgow and America was named after a Welshie, not an Italian. Furthermore, Jesus is English (I can't back that last one up)
Peter Jinks, Iambetterthanyouton

Robinson Crusoe was the only man to get all work done by Friday
yogi, 1 twilight zone,

It is actually illegal to use your horn; 1 - Whilst stationary on the road. 2 - When driving in a built-up area between the hours of 11.30 pm and 7.00 am, except when another vehicle poses a danger. Additionally, it should be illegal to shop anywhere other than at www.IWOOT.com!
PC Plodd, Plodds-Ville

If a tree falls in the woods and no-one is around, does it make a sound? Yes, if you placed a sound recorder (something not someone) in the wood then it would record the sound of a tree falling!
Big A, ?

3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.
Nick Mahy, Nottingham

Facetious (meaning joking or jesting often inappropriately) is the only word in the English language to have all the vowels (a,e,i,o,u) in the correct order! Cool!
Sparky, Crouch End, London

The shortest sentence in the English language is: Go.
J. Feher, Buffalo, NY

Why is there a "wake" before a funeral? Years ago, people drank out of cups and goblets which contained lead. Thus, people eventually succumed to lead poisoning and would go into a coma that seemed like death. However, after a day or so, the lead would leave the system and the person would wake up-- sometimes in the middle of their own funeral! Thus began the tradition of staying up all night with the deceased in case he should "wake." If they were buried anyway, sometimes they would wake up in the coffin! A bell was tied to a post by the grave and end of the string was left in the coffin. A person waking from the coma would ring the bell and thus be "saved by the bell."
J. Feher, Buffalo, NY

racecar backwards spells racecar
afro man, london

Confucius say: "man who run in front of car get tired, man who run behind car get exhausted, and man who fall in vat of molten glass make a spectacle of himself"
Libby, Aberdeenshire

In 1956 abnormally low tides meant that people were actually able to cross from New Zealand to Australia by foot
Skiwi, Auckland

The saying isn't 'All roads lead to Rome'; actually the proper translation is 'All roads lead AWAY FROM Rome', as there is a boulder in the middle of the Forum known as the Umbilicus where they used to measure distances from and to such-and-such a place. I have a photo of this boulder.
Alice, Winchester

one of the Cayman Islands has a 100% car accident rate - there are only two cars on the whole Island and they hit each other!
Kristine, London

1 in 7 American adults cannot locate the USA on a world map!
roger marsh, Barndennoch

The word 'X-Ray' is called that because when it was first developed, no-one knew what it was. X is the unknown in maths, so hence the name.
Wouldn'tchaliketaknow, Manchester

60% of Seaguls will never see the sea.
That chap, Birmingham

My rabbit can NOT ice dance
HarryBo, Sutton Coldfield

totaphobia - the fear of absolutely everything totagoraphobia - the fear of being afraid of absolutely everything :P and, this one is true i promise, xanthaphobia - the fear of the colour yellow how strange :P
Steph, Solihull

10001000111000100100010100110011010010101100000100101010101010101011111110000101010101010100110010110 is binary for 'look at this'
luke harris, letchworth

I plan on living forever - so far, so good...
el Marko , Gibraltar

Human blood is actually green it turns red when oxygen form the air mixes with the haeamoglobin from our cells turning it red. `trust me I',m a doctor'!
Dr. Tim Davis, Worthing

Why does nobody ever have a negative number as their lucky number? Answer me that one.
Snell, London

My dog can tell the difference between butter and "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter".
Roo, Alresford

5/3 people don't know how to use fractions.
Logan Langley, Zumbrota

Chuck Norris's tears cure cancer, it's too bad that he never cries
Logan Langley, Zumbrota

Two oranges went to the pub. One said to the other, ' you're round'.
Marianne, London

You park on a DRIVEWAY, yet drive on a PARKWAY. CARGO comes on a ship, yet a SHIPMENT comes on a truck. Also why do drive-up ATMs have Braille?
Jason , Lowell

The root of the word "weird" is "wyrd" which means DESTINY.
Fredric Matteson, Bainbridge Island

When your uncle says he's stolen your nose, he may in fact be lying.
Chris , Somerset

4 out of 5 kids prefer crayons to guns.
Blodeuwed the Owl, Bangor

'Murcielago', meaning 'bat' in English, is the only word in the Spanish language to contain all the vowels
Jamie

I went on the pitch at carrow road and nearly fell over...but i didn't.
J Kheng, Norwich

In Kyoto, Japanese food is referred to as 'food'
Adam, London

If you leave a slice of cheese of a BBQ it will first turn black and then explode into flames
Dave, Basingstoke

The definition of optimist is an English batsman who puts on sunscreen.
Mel, Melbourne

The coolest place in the universe is in Finland. In Helsinki, scientists cooled a piece of rhodium to a tenth of a billionth of a degree above absolute zero (-273 C). In deep space, the temperature is around -245 C. The coolest natural place we know of is in the Boomerang Nebula, where temperatures fall to -271 C.
Magical Trevor, Hyrule

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEc) is when an element is cooled down to a fraction of a degree over absolute zero (-273 C). If you put a BEc element in a beaker and keep it cold enough it will begin to climb the walls of the beaker and escape. This is an attempt to reduce its own energy, which is already at its lowest level.
Magical Trevor, Hyule

The speed of light is usually considered to be in the region of 300,000 km per second. This speed is only reached in a vacuum. The speed of light varies in different mediums, and the slowest recorded speed is 0 km per second, in other words a complete standstill. This was reached when light was shone through a Bose-Einstein condensate (for more information see my next post) of rubidium.
Magical Trevor, Hyrule

In response to Richard A George's comment on glass being a liquid, it most definitely isn't. The only reason glass is thicker at the bottom is because medieval glass makers could not make sheets of glass perfectly flat. When this occured they stood the window with the thicker end facing downwards. The confusion over the state of glass most probably comes from Gustav Tammann, who when observing the molecular structure of glass whilst solidifying stated that it was "like a frozen super-cooled liquid.
David, Hyrule

FACETIOUS is the shortest word in the English language with the vowels in the correct order. SEQUOIA is the shortest word with the vowels in any order
Robert Templar, Chester

Despite the fact that it exhibits Brownian Motion, tea is not a gas at any temperature.
Jules, London

All the people who ate apples in 1875... are now dead!
Rob C, PRESTON

How come irons don't have on/off switches? Does anyone know of any other electrical appliance that doesn't?!
Fred S, Dublin

Peanuts are not a nut but the eggs of a ground-dwelling bird called the Burlen's Dwarf. I read that somewhere.
Alan, Clentry

Whilst knocking down the old courts in Dublin they found a skeleton in the chimney, which had a medal around its neck. Upon further investigation the medal appeared to read "1896 Irish Hide and Seek Champion".
Woops, Sunderland

The most played song of all time is that awful Nokia phone tune da da dah dah da da dah dah daaah etc. It is actually an excerpt from Francisco Tarregas Grans Val who lived during the 19th C. Don't you just wish his tune hadn't lived on? I bet he wishes he were still alive and living off the royalties he'd have made, perhaps he's haunting the Nokia bosses for his share right now...
Claire M, Darlington

The Coca-Cola name in China was first read as "Kekoukela", meaning "Bite the Wax Tadpole" or "Female Horse Stuffed with Wax", depending on the dialect. Coke then researched 40,000 characters to find a phonetic equivalent "kokoukole", translating into "Happiness in the Mouth."
Lord S. Ansell, Burton

Blondie, you've got it wrong, it is the front door pockets in a Classic Mini that are designed to carry bottles of Gin (Which was designer Alec Issigonis's favourite tipple!)
Caroline, Ipswich

Whilst sitting at your desk, raise your right leg slightly off the floor and start to rotate your foot clockwise, whilst at the same time drawing a "6" with your right hand. You will find that your foot automatically changes direction - go on, try it.
Margaret Y, Fair Oak

Brad Dexter got his role in the Magnificent Seven after allegedly diving into a pool, saving Frank Sinatra`s life after he nearly drowned at one of his lavish parties. Sinatra is said to have used his "influence" to have won him the part ; His only major film role.
Simon K, Freckleton

Pirates used to wear a gold earring so that if they drowned, and got swept up on a beach, they could still pay for their funeral.
Chaz, Beeston, Notts

in starwars (return of the jedi) one of the storm trupers bangs his head on door as he runns in to the controle tower in the space station
pete, rochester

James Matthew Barry, the writer of Peter Pan, invented the name Wendy when he wrote the Peter Pan book.
Joe Creed, Moreton-in-Marsh

When people say that someone's kicked the bucket, that means that said person is dead... So, if I JUST HAPPENED to boot a plastic bucket in a particularly peculiar fashion the other day... does that mean that I'm indeed dead?
Vicki, Liverpool

My boss had a go at me for visiting this website. I caught him on it a couple of hours later. I got you a customer. What's my commission?
HarryC, Portsmouth.

Due to the receding level in intelligence of the general public in Britain, the more complicated words in our language will be phased out, one of which is the word "gullible".
Andy Harris, Wallasey

Not getting a sarcastic comment is also known as falling into the sar-chasm.
John Harrington, Ireland

Prank for the day: get three sheep (or equivalent sized animals) and spray paint "1", "2" and "4" on their sides. Release them into a your school/office block/orphanage etc. and people will be trying to track down number 3 for hours!
Snell, Reading

"Woes Of The Nation" and "Nation of Hot Ewes" are 2 strangely irrelevant anagrams of "I Want One Of Those", neither of which in any way seem to represent the magnificent of this wonderful online store, but both of which for some sad reason made me smile...
Alexandra Blue, Littlehampton

babies are born without kneecaps, they don't grow until between the ages of 2 and 4
Alexandra Blue, Littlehampton

I can resist anything except temptation!
David Shelton, Tidworth

Whats RACE CAR backwards?? ................. ............... RACE CAR, go on try it...
Lil Helzi, Luton

Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was invented by an american in a toy shop after his boss wanted a new advertising campaign
Trevor Murray, Peacehaven

did you know the rightous brothers were not the first to sing "unchained melody"?it was first sang by al hibbler in 1955and has been released 697 since
jennie rogers, burnley

Newton once stuck a needle in between his eyeball and eyesocket, to see what would happen - luckily for him nothing did.
C4TW, ENGLAND

Egg mayonnaise can be used to polish wood, it removes all stains.
C4TW, ENGLAND

more people are injured in vending machine accidents each year than in shark attacks...haha
Kirsty, Oldham

A Banana has 5 sides, don't belive me go see.
stevie g, here

"When reclaiming old graveyards for new developments, a disturbing number of the exhumed coffins have scratch marks on the inside of the lids. Aaron" This is because the stomach has exploded after the person was buried- the body fliuds and gases collect in the stomach and build up pressure until it explodes, the acidity of the fluids cause what looks like scratch marks, they weren't necessarily buried alive, so you don't need to be begging for that cremation
Jonny, England

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Ethan, Newcastle

in the carol 'the twelve days of christmas' the total number of presents, that my true love gave to me, is 364!
tina smith, wellingborough

Charlie, a 17 year old chimp is a black belt at karate .The american Jeff Jay can walk on stilts 18 m high, he needs a crane to get on them. In Sri Lanka, there is a life size cricket ball made from 2,704 diamonds and lots of SOLID gold. In Japan a ghost radar has been made, it apparently detects tiny vibrations in the magnetic turbulence - so if you want to waste your money, get one of these. In 2005 in Manchester, an boa constrictor made its way up a pipe and emerged from a toilet in someones' appartment. A large brick was placed on the lid to stop the snake from escaping until firemen (and plumbers) arrived.In a zoo in Tokyo, Gypsy, a 50 year old orangutan is an artist! She draws using crayons, she likes yellow and blue best. At last, for my final fact: I really really want a Wii, something I don't need, but I really really really really really want.
james, tunbridge wells

One of my cats fetches just like a dog. He doesn't bark tho, but his meow can sound quite like a tweet.
Susan Pringle, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Polar bears fur isn't white, it's actually see-though
Matt Farr, Manchester

Bill Gates' first business was Traff-O-Data, a company that created machines which recorded the number of cars passing a given point on a road.
George Conneely, Coventry, UK

The lengh of your foot is equal to the distance between your wrist and the crook of your elbow.! Go on try it. You'll be amazed.
Belinda P., Auckland, New Zealand

Baby's crawl backwards before they crawl forwards
MB, Greater Seascale

How can you catch 22?
karen smith, sheffield

38.75 % of statistics are made up.
Robin, Leicester

I Like Pie
Jak Cartmell, Callington

My boyfiend lies and thinks I don't know, I'll show him!
Gia, IOW

Babies are made from playdough, i know because i have one, and he is all squishy and squashy.Therfore he must be made from playdough. If you happen to see one, poke it and see!
Boytees bird, cold wet place

the opposite of elastic is in fact plastic !!
moi, liverpool

Never argue with an idiot, they'll bring you down to their level then beat you with experience.
Shonk, Bristol

Britney Spears is an anagram of presbyterians. She recently did an ad for pepsi cola which is an anagram of episcopal
Toby, Brooklyn

"Better to reign in hell then serve in Heaven" John Milton paradise lost
Rory, derby

Handi Magnets are actually talking in British Sign Language! I'm a sign language interpreter & I understand the real British meaning of these hands! Most represent numbers, others mean "good" or "bad". And the so-called rude one, in British Sign Language, means "holiday" ! I'm buying a bunch for my deaf friends! They can alert their partners to how many bottles of milk are needed from the shop by sticking these hands on the fridge!
Eileen Tucker, Wembley

Percy Spencer found a melted chocolate bar in his pocket after standing for a few moments in front of a magnetron. So began the invention of the microwave oven.
Pat Wilkinson, Frome

if you spill red wine on your carpet use white wine to clean it.(this does actually work)
laura hendry, Glasgow

A squash ball moving at 150 kilometres per hour has the same impact as a .22 bullet.
Alexander L, Sevenoaks

If you drop a floppy disk or CD on its end, all the data falls to one side, making it unstable in the drive when you use it.
Dean H, Brandon Suffolk

The ancient Greeks called our galaxy the "Milky Way" because they thought it was made from drops of milk from the breasts of the Greek goddess Hera.
Barry M, Port Ellen

I've submitted over 1003 things we didn't know and I'm still not there, yet...
Ethan, Newcastle

Rosebud was not a sled as Citizen Kane would have you believe, but William Randolph Hearst's pet name for a part of his girlfriend's body, Mary Pickford...
Glenn , Ards

Open your start menu, go to run and put in "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" (without the apostrophes) and you get a rather nifty ASCII code version of Star Wars Episode IV!
Stuart, Blyth

A crayfish has 200 chromosones compared with only 46 in a human or 14 in a pea.
Beaujolly, Sandbach

The real name of the # (hash) symbol is an octothorpe. It signifies a layout of 8 fields (or 'thorpes' as in 'Scunthorpe') around a farm building.
Beaujolly, Sandbach

The Sorcerer's name in Fantasia was Yensid (Disney backwards)
Beaujolly, Sandbach

In 1924 Pope Urban viii threatened to excommunicate people who took snuff
Beaujolly, Sandbach

Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh is worshipped as a god by the people of Tanna, an island in the South West Pacific.
Penny, Larkfield

In his spare time,in between developiong the theory of relativity,Albert Einstein designed fridges.
Mark Webb, Grimsby

Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left.
Emzie, Cliffe Woods, England

Its impossible to say "beer can" without sounding like a jamacian saying bacon.
Lauren Thomas, Potters Bar , herts

I am being paid at work to read this...
Chris, Portslade

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
Ian Grubb, Salisbury

Rolf Harris was the 1948 junior backstroke champion of australia Best thing hes ever done i think xxx
Sam Barker, Hull

sitting on a chair, raise your feet and turn them either clock or anti clockwise, now try and move your hands in the opposite direction at the same time.......its impossible!
emboo, london

If a Homeopathist forgets to take his medicine he will die of an overdose.
Mark, Scarborough

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovocanoconiosis is the longest word i know that i can spell from memory
Chris K, Plymouth

How do 'Keep of the Grass' signs get there?
Liz J, Stratford Upon Avon

Billy Joel played the piano on the Sahgri-Las' "Leader Of The Pack" in 1965. It was his first paid studio session work.
Suttonandy, Sutton

'Tis better to remain silent, and be thought a fool - Than to speak and remove all doubt!
Will, Tulsa

I beat a past European Highboard Diving Gold Medallist in a burping competition at a dinner dance.
ScooterG1rl, Horsham

The largest school in the world is city montessori in lucknow, northern india. it has more than 27,000 pupils.
cam f , haven

We can't spell Failure without you
Boltona667, Aylesbury

"There's nothing worse than....." is never true.
Tom Dickson, Wormleighton

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Grewsome Newman, Gloucester

Do smarties realy have the answer?
Rob , Poole

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
Tanya, Grays

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
Lynne H, Flamborough

Captain Cooks' death at the hands of native Hawaiians/Hawaians/Hawaiiaanans.............Pacific ocean islanders was caused by his revisiting the islands during the same season; during his first visit he was regarded as being the fabled white god that would bring a good harvest that year and was treated as such, however a second visit in the same year was regarded as being extremely bad luck indeed and he was therefore given a right royal kicking! Anyone else been clubbed to death in the surf for forgetting their flip-flops?
smithers, Saturn

THE FIRST PERSON TO BE SHOT IN THE FILM 'ZULU'? WILL... "SHOOT AT WILL".
Me, Leic

Try opening your post in the dark and you will find the glue on pre-glued envelopes glows bright blue as you tear the flap off. Nobody believes me, but it's true...
Rupes, Reigate

The UK's coastline is 12430km long. The straight line distance from London to New York is 5530km.
Louis

In all the years that Concorde flew, the RAF never had a plane fast enough to catch it.
Ray K, Bournemouth

"Women are like tea bags - getting into hot water makes them stronger." - Nancy Reagan.
Judith E, Penarth

The space between the tip of your thumb and the tip of your lil finger (when you spread out your hand) is the distance between your nipples!
Dog Food, Belfast

The corners that are cut off green Rizlas are sold to the Sydney Opera House to use as fake snow.
Michael, Exeter

The next sentence is true. The last sentence was a lie.
Mike R., Guernsey

EXPLODING WATER: "If water is boiled and reboiled in a microwave many times, eventually all the impurities in it are gone." What a load of rubbish, the impurities will still be there, only deionised or distilled water will have no impurities and become super-heated if microwaved.
Rob, Warrington

The original script for the Lord of the Rings was only five pages long. Chuck Norris played Frodo and kicked Sauron's ass halfway through the first chapter.
Anubite

Student nurses are taught when making a bed to face the open end of the pillow away from the door... this is in case a sandstorm blows through the ward and fills the pillow with sand. Dates back to Florence!
Angela B, Gillingham

Some of it, plus the rest of it, is all of it.
Keith H, Blackpool

During the 1939-45 War, Great Britain established an artificial island on the High Seas. This island was equipped with radar and heavy armaments and occupied by some two hundred servicemen. The task of the island and its inhabitants was to guard the approaches to the Thames Estuary, where large and vulnerable convoys of shipping were assembled. Some time after the cessation of hostilities, the island was derelicted and abandoned by the British Government. In the winter of 1966, a British family took possession and commenced the task of equipping and restoring the island. On 2 September 1967, they hoisted their own flag and declared the existence of a new state - the Principality of Sealand. I can see the fort from where I live and I have been past it on the ferry - not a good place for a family holiday...
Helen G, Harwich

Throw your empty beer cans in the back of your car when you have finished them. When they roll about they make great floor chimes.
Jamie K, Kinlochbervie

The eastern entrance of the Panama Canal is located geographically further west than the western entrance. Look it up in an atlas. Weird, huh?
Iain M, Worcester

I have known only shame.Then last week, I experienced surprise.
AL, Minehead

What if there were no hypothetical questions?
Tee C, Paisley

The motto of the French Navy is "To the water, it is time!" In French: "à l'eau, c'est l'heure!"
Glackton F, Exit

Bosses should be buried - deep down they are nice people.
Hade Nough, Ipswich

Shooters Hill gets its name as it was the stick-up point for highwaymen, the most famous of whom was Dick Turpin.
Mark, Greenwich

There's not many words that change their meaning when you capitalise them - 'polish' is one of them.
Beatpig, Nottingham

Torchwood, the BBC3 programme, is an anagram of 'Doctor Who', where Torchwood came from.
Matty

When a piece of clothing says 'Hand wash only', they do really mean it... (oops!) I'm hoping my flatmate wont notice!!!
Anon, West Sussex

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Wayne R, Wakefield

It's apparently illegal to name a pig "Napoleon" in France!
Mike C, Brighton

It is a criminal offence in certain parts of Switzerland for a man to urinate standing up after 10PM
Barnacle Bill, Swizerland

the word 'trivia' comes from the laitn 'Tri Via' as in the three roads where the female townsfolk used to stand in the village and have a gossip. hence, 'trivia'.
Sandra, Edinburgh

Gloucestershire Airport is planning to blast Tina Turner songs on the runways to scare birds away.
Oboe Panda Girl

It's all the vegetarians fault. If Adam & Eve had just eaten the snake instead of the apple, we'd all still be in Paradise.
Pauline, Liverpool

The side pockets in the rear of a classic Mini were designed to hold the ingredients to make a gin and tonic.
Blondie

EXPLODING WATER:
If water is boiled and reboiled in a microwave many times, eventually all the impurities in it are gone. It is the impurities in water that cause it to boil, so when these are removed the water can be heated beyond boiling point without boiling. When an object such as a spoon is placed in the water, the impurities on the spoon go into the superheated water, causing it to boil so rapidly it seems to be exploding.
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!
David , Hyrule

If our solar system (8 billion miles in diameter) was scaled down to a 5mm disk, the first star we would come to (on the same scale) would be 6km away.
Ollie P, Blackpool

If my auntie is a vegetarian, why is she still fat?
George A, Derby, Chellaston

For the blockbuster movie "The Terminator," O.J. Simpson was considered to play the role of the Terminator, but producers did not choose him as they thought he would not be taken seriously. And 'Canada' is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
Pixie, London

'Fratton Park' spelt backwards is 'Krap, Not 'Arf'.
Sith Princess

When you get an estimated utility bill, send an estimated cheque.
John B, Bristol

If you could stack up all the copies of the Guinness book of records made just in the year 1985, your pile would reach into outer space. It would be 1,006 miles high.
David S, Coventry

Squirrels swim on their backs to keep their nuts dry.
BJ, North Wales

The bits of plastic that are left over after you've made an Airfix kit are called 'sprue'.
Bernie, Mold

The notion that 'Coca-Cola' translates to Chinese as 'Bite the wax tadpole'" is a myth. It in fact means "Happy mouth, Happy taste".
Laowai, Liuzhou, China

'Goodbye' is derived from the phrase 'God be with ye' .
Andrew, Drofmats

Grapes explode when microwaved.
Andrew, Drofmats

Colgate translated into Spanish means "hang yourself".
Roberto , USA

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Mark (Kr@m), Oxford

[WARNING: FILM SPOILER FOLLOWS - Ed] In Pulp Fiction, it is Marsellus's soul that's in the briefcase - hence the eerie glow and the plaster on the back of his neck - a Greek mythology reference. I sold it back to him - that's why the combination on the briefcase is '666'.
Satan, The Warm Place

The Sega Corporation (one of the world's most famous video gaming industries) was originally founded in 1940 as 'Service Games' to provide coin-operated amusements for American servicemen on military bases. They didn't start making video games until 1965.
Gary B, Ipswich

If you are trapped in the middle of a room full of people and everybody is rushing to the door, rather than push forwards, go sideways and then make your way along the wall.
Scarlet

The word 'dude' does not come from early cowboy days and 'dude ranches'. It does have its history in America, however, from the time British settlers first started to colonise. The friendly formal greeting "How do you do" became slackened into "Howdy doody" which eventually became "Howdy Dude"!
Dufasio, Xexet_sw

They don't actually drink Umbongo in the Congo.
MarketingMan, UK

You may think MS notepad is a pretty much uncrashable programme - well, think again. Open a new notepad document, type "this app can break" (without the " ). Save the file and reopen it, see what happens!
Oli , Salisbury

Humphrey Bogart's last words? "The problem with the world is that everyone else is 2 drinks behind".
Harry B

The cat is the only domestic animal not mentioned in the bible.
Jo-ann, Staffordshire

Banging two pistachio nutshells together gives the impression that a very small horse is approaching.
Jane H, Wrexham

To fix a dog with no tail, simply give it some retail therapy.
Ricky, Hull

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington Chemistry mid-term. The answer by one student was so profound that the professor shared it with colleagues via the Internet which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well. BONUS QUESTION: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following: First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell, and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different Religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "it will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you", and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number 2 must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct... leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God." THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A".
Mike D, Kings Langley

There is more nutritional value in a mouse than in a tin of cat food (guess you have to be furry to appreciate this one!)
Jax W, Sawtry

If you stand on the highest point on the Isle of Wight, you can see as far back as 1966.
Pal, Hampshire

Glass is not a liquid. Panes of glass thicker at the bottom are that way due to imprecise fabrication methods. It would take millions of years for glass to "move" at all.
W., Yonder

I can lick my elbow... apparently it's impossible.
Nicki, Somerset

When Chuck Norris does press-ups, he stays still - it's the earth that moves downward.
Doug, Foggieloan

Becky knows I fancy her now.
Mini-Hef, Swindon

The average 4 year old asks 100 questions a day
tom.odgers, somerset

I fancy Becky, but she doesn't know that yet.
Mini-Hef, Swindon

I want to be a pirate.
Sam, Shepshed

If there was a 30m high wall running all the way round France, you could fill it with water...
Jules, London

The circumference of a pint glass is longer than its height.
Lisa, Dorchester

Bob's my uncle.
TreZ

Pepsi's slogan 'Pepsi - Choice of a New Generation' translated into Chinese reads 'Pepsi - will bring your ancestors back from the dead'.
Cheryl, Edinburgh

The American phrase 'so long' is actually their interpretation of 'slan' (pronounced slawn)- the Irish for goodbye.
The Village Idiot, Dublin

A peanut is not a nut. It's a legume. It's part of the pea family.
Lee Peart, Cleethorpes

During the the space race, America spent millions of dollars trying to develop a pen that could write in zero g... the Russians used a pencil.
Josh A, Enterprise, Alabama

If you were to spell out numbers until you found the letter "A", you'd have to go until you got to one thousAnd
sam Kerridge, Scunny

"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Sam Kerridge, scunny

What shape does a pear go when it goes wrong?
Chris Pollard, Burnley

What the English and the Americans call a "French Kiss" is what the French call an "English Kiss".
Jess, Bournemouth

U2 were playing a gig in Dublin, and Bono decided to try and convince the crowd to donate money to help poverty. He stood in front of the crowd, clicking his fingers once every two seconds. "Every time I click my fingers," he told the crowd, "a child dies in Africa." A heckler from the crowd shouted back, "Stop &*%$ing doing it then!"
Chris B, Portsmouth

The last one that tried it came out of there shouting, "Holy mother of god, is there ANYTHING more frightening?" We just laughed 'cause we'd seen it before. A lot. There'll be another one along soon, we'll laugh at him too. We'll laugh and laugh and laugh. Probably 'til we wet ourselves. But it won't stop there, oh no. It'll go on and on and on. You know what I mean, don't you?
Fronk, Paris

Only in Britain do banks leave both doors open but chain their pens to the counter.
Jess, Brick Hill

The word 'Wight' in the Isle of Wight is Olde English for 'man'. So England has two islands off her coast called the Isle of Man!
Sandra D

Those little round bits of paper formed by hole-punchers are called 'Chads'
Leanne G

If you want to scare some German people, run up to them and say "Hallo Ich heisse Herr Kartoffelkopf. Ich wohne in einem Buecherregal, der gross und rose ist. Ich bin seit drei Jahren mit einem schnauzbaertigen Nilpferd gebliebt". This means "Hello. My name is Mr. Potatohead. I live in a large pink bookcase. I have been staying with a moustachioed hippo for 3 years."
Jeremy W

An ant can survive for up to 2 weeks underwater
Danni

"Rhythms" is a word with seven consonants in a row and no vowels at all. My eleven year old son came up with this when I told him of the message sent in by Suz P about the the only word in the English language to contain five consonants in a row being "witchcraft"...
Anni

Don't buy a Mitsubishi Pajero for street cred - in Spanish it means "Tramp" or "Man of the road", in South American dialects it means "W*****"
Romano P

All the clocks in 'Pulp Fiction' are stuck at 4.20
Danni

More people died after the battle of Trafalgar due to bad weather than during the whole battle.
Adam

The Vauxhall Nova has never sold well in Spain as No Va means "it doesn't go".
Rob Griffin

There is a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking stupid.
John Melbourne

It is unfortunate that the Lone Ranger called his faithful companion Tonto. Its Spanish for Idiot!
Frank Lowe

In the hit series "Friends" in the very beggining chandler and joeys door number is 4 and monicas is 5 then by the 2 nd series they are in the same house but somehow there numbers magically change to 19 and 20.
Shell

If you stir liquid Helium III and stop, it will continue to swirl forever, it can also flow uphill. It is what's known as a super liquid.
David

Coca-Cola was originally green. Which explains a lot about what is in it. As if we want to know.
Helen

I bet you didn't know that badgers don't really exist! I cannot find a single person who has seen a live one. and I live in the countryside!
Chris Pearce

If a disabled person parks in an 'able bodied' parking space, they don't get clamped!
Chris

In response to the earlier comment, "If you mouth the word 'colourful' to someone, it looks like you are saying 'I love you'!"; if you mouthed 'vacuum' to someone, expect a punch in the mouth!
Garbo Kwok, nursing a bloody lip

The wife of the Sultan is a Sultana.
Christine Chui

I have seen not one badger but 3 all together and I have a photo - see they do exist, like fairies do.
Helen

Why is evaporated milk still there?
Emma

Any month that starts on a Sunday will have a Friday the 13th in it.
Tufty

Mother In Law. Re-arrange it, what do you get? Woman Hitler
Lwona

Facetious contains all the vowels in order! Now there's something REALLY interesting and useful (I'm not being serious, I'm being facetious!)
Ollie

What came first, the colour orange or the fruit?
Big Daddy O

I used to live in a flat where the toilet used to flush itself in the middle of the night! Apparently it was caused by a small hole in the ballcock that let water in slowly after I went to bed. When the thing filled up, it would flush about 4 am! Creepy but true.
Janet

Don't buy a Gnome with learning difficulties - It's not big and its not clever!
Kim

On Aug. 16, 1960 Captain Joseph Kittinger of US Air Force bailed out of a polyethylene plastic balloon at an altitude of 31,354 m (19.5 miles) setting a new altitude record for balloon flight and a new record for parachute descent. He fell for 4 minutes 36 seconds and reached a speed of 600mph. He still holds the record.
Swim

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
Melling

'Tonto' in Spanish means silly, not idiot.
Troy

I was thinking of submitting some tidbit about the word "flagrant' ...but that would just be a flagrant use of the word flagrant.
Adam

Stewardesses is the longest word you type on a keyboard using only your left hand.
Melling

People will read anything, even this: uw droevig als u omhoog dit keek, and then you will wonder what it says.
Elliot

Never argue with an idiot; you lower yourself to their level and then they beat you with experience.
Alistair

The Huamn brian only reiqures the frsit and lsat letters of a wrod to be albe to raed a snetnece. It intsnalty rerararnegs all the ltteers into the rgiht odrer. How cool is that?
Dave

The longest word in the english language which does not repeat anmy letters is uncopywritable.
Jack

International Talk Like A Pirate Day is 19th September. Avast me hearties!!
Tracy

The Moon is running away from the Earth (towards the sun) at a rate of about 3.8cm per year. This slows the rotation of the earth making our days longer by around 2 milliseconds every 100 years. Scientists have known this since 1695 and been able to prove it since 1748, so how is it I only found out today?
Mike R

If the bill for a meal at a restaurant doesn't arrive for 50 minutes, the meal is free.
The Yeti

The wonderful thing about Tiggers, is Tiggers are wonderful things.
Desertwellie

Selfridges don't sell fridges.
Adrian

The worlds total expenditure on biosecurity quarantine (keeping alien invasive species out of the country) is $1.5-2 billion per year, which is the same amount of money that people spend on mobile ringtones per year.
Christina

When a polar bear meets a panda in a restaurant, they have a fight.
B Little

Every Cadburys cream egg contains half a pound of sugar.
A.

It's only the hairs on a gooseberry that stops it from being a grape!
Desertwellie

Atheism is a non-prophet organisation.
Simon K.

There are more Irish people in the rest of the world than there are in Ireland itself. The Irish tourist board is aware of this and has changed their slogan to "Ireland, We're Not All There!"
Lofty

I can fit my big toe in my mouth.
Timmy

If these boots are made for walking, what are those boots for?
Desertwellie

Should a married couple be frank and earnest, or should one of them be a woman?
Cathryn

Double negatives are a big no-no.
Jamie M.

100% of all divorces start with a marriage!
Desertwellie

My girlfriend thought there where 60 pennies to the pound. I found this out when she said I could get 100 prints for 1p a print. Asked how much that would be and said £1.40... Now where do I stand when she goes shopping!!!
Roger T.

"The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other guy die for his."
Duff

OH PHUQ, is posh people's swearing.
Chris

Who thought of drinking cows milk when they can't have known it was milk?
Rory

Every single question imaginable, regardless of context and subject, can be countered by the phrase "What you talkin' 'bout Willis?"
Snell

If a Boeing 747 was to fly upside down its wings would drop off!
Robert Gates

In addition to Facetious... the other 2 words in English with the vowels in alphabetical order are: Arsenious and Abstemious. Not at all useful, but then again, neither is dust... doesn't stop us collecting it.
Andy Parker

I actually knew a girl named Annette Curtain. There was also a man who lived on my street when I was younger called Alf Hookam. Astonishing that someone actually gave these names to their children, condeming them to a life of misery, mental torture, and physical violence!
Paul K.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
Rachel

What does MFI and John Prescot have in common? One misplaced screw and the whole cabinet falls apart!
Paul K.

A hole is the only thing known to man that gets bigger the more you take away from it.
Paul K.

The river Yansee is the 2nd largest river in the world....good ol' Michael Palin
Kim Barrett

Ornithologists have only got birds in their head.
Michael Wolynskyj

Life is like a Llama on rollarskates; whenever you are hungry it will rain.
Liz

I have seen a wild Badger, so they do exist, fool!
Barney

You can only fold any piece of paper in half seven times! Try it, eight just can't be done!!!
Joanne

National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA for short - that claim to have sent man to the moon etc - also stands for N_ever A_ctually S_aw A_nything =)
Peter 'Morpyre' Turner

White Star Line's lesser-known failure: 'The Unshippable Sink'.
Michael C

The dot above the letters i and j is called a 'tittle'.
Alastair

My granddad retired two years ago and has kept fit by walking five miles every morning. Does anyone know where he is?
Mike, Wharfedale

We only use 10% of our brains. Imagine what we could accomplish if we just used the other 60%.
Azarath, Redbridge

What could be more dangerous than being with a fool? Fooling with a bee.
Azarath, Redbridge

Furniture vans go for long periods of time containing absolutely no furniture whatsoever.
James D, Abingdon

Entering your team under a rude name in the office quiz is not conducive to being promoted. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Jack S

Squeezing hard on the fleshy joint between your thumb and hand for a few minutes will relieve a headache. This area is a pressure point that releases endorphines (happy signals) in the brain and knocks out the painful effects of the headache!
Simon - South Yorkshire

Anfield is the length of one football field.
Phil, London

The only word in the English language to contain five consonants in a row is 'witchcraft'.
Suz P

Despite constant warning, you've never met anyone who has had their arm broken by a swan.
BEXSTAR, PORTSMOUTH

'QUARK' IS THE NOISE MADE BY A POSH DUCK.
Kevin, Essex

I am the proud adopted father of a fruit bat at London Zoo. His name is Kevin.
Adam R

'Duoliteral' is the shortest word in the English language to feature all the vowels in reverse order. There is no point in knowing this.
David B, Reading

If you could travel at 50 times the speed of light, to a planet 50 light years away it would take you 1 year. However, the long journey would be of benefit if you had an impossibly massive telescope maybe 1,000,000 times bigger than Hubble or more (i.e. so you could see things as close up as people walking about). You could look back at the Earth and see life 49 years ago! But... the Earth would still be at present time, just you would be looking at the light emitted 49 years ago as it takes so long to get there. So in a way we CAN travel in a way to see back in time!
Mark C, Banbury

The only survivor of the Munich Air Disaster still playing top flight football? John Lukic (his mother was a nurse on the plane who was pregnant with him at the time.)
Marco Cassandro, London

The chips in Littleport are getting worse. Try Alans in Ely :o)
glen

The best way to get rid of people doing your windscreen at traffic lights is to roll down your window and say in a very high pitched voice 'if I lose my mittens and then find them again, can I have some pie?'
Martin, Plymouth

What's sliced bread the best thing since?
Steffi

The Intel Chip fabrication site Rio Rancho New Mexico uses 10 million litres of water a day for cleaning chips. The over 10litres of water per square centimetre.
Gordon McGregor

Diana Dors once played the part of a wicked babysitter. she had to have a convincing wart so the make up girls used a coloured Rice Krispie and glued it on!
tony christy

My grandfather always said fight fire with fire... which is why he got sacked from the fire brigade...
Jack, Maidstone

If you take the first two letters of your surname; first two of your first name; first two of your mother's maiden name; first two of the county/state you live in - add in that order, you will get your star wars name.
Dominion

More people are killed by donkeys every year than are killed in plane crashes.
Rebekah Mayne, Bangor, NI

Ignoranus: A person who is both stupid and an a***hole
ian_bernard

How can one person chop down a tree and then chop up the same tree?
Benny Catchesides, Thornbury, Bristol

Although money can't buy you happiness, it can buy you a load of stuff that looks, feels and smells exactly like happiness
I'm Hunting Wabbit

If Bill Gates were to cash in his assets tomorrow, there is not enough US currency in circulation in the world for him to walk away with his net worth in cash.
Kay Cahill

You rear Children and you raise Cattle
rcampbell

If we use the Greek letter 'pi' to symbolise 3.141592... what do the Greeks use?
Dave, Swindonia

In Star Wars Episode One, in the pod-racing scene ET and Indiana Jones are spectators in the crowd
Andy Norris

There is new Barbie doll in the shops - Divorced Barbie (complete with all Ken's accessories)
Adrian Lindley, Sheffield

The average distance walked at a National Trust property is 12 feet. Old people walking from the car to the bin as they sit and look at an old building from the car park.
rich.hughes

I'M Spartacus.
Emma, London

The composer Robert Schumann fancied himself to have many different personalities. He gave them all names, then wrote a multi movement piece about them. In the final movement all of his personalities get together and have a party and praise Schumann for his excellent musical skills.
A Minor

A hedgehog trained to scuttle up and down the table from guest to guest makes an unusual mobile cheese and pineapple cube nibble dispenser at cocktail parties.
Gary White, Edinburgh

You can't score a six at Shepley Cricket Club because of foot and mouth. It counts as four and you have to put some special wellies on to fetch the ball.
jamie turner

Theory and practice are the same in theory but different in practice.
Zyqwiz, Rickmansworth

Glass is a liquid. After approximately 10 years a window will be thicker at the bottom than at the top. I have a friend who can fit a protractor in his mouth. Ex Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was on the university science team which developed the first portable ice cream machines used in ice cream vans. Greenland is covered in ice and Iceland has a temperate climate, they were named so to confuse Viking invaders. The footprints of the first men on the moon will still be there after the pyramids have eroded. I am full of useless information.
Richard A George

The opposite of Progress is Congress.
Dohdohs, Delaware, USA

The human small intestine if straightened out and measured with a ruler would no longer work properly.
kaikiman

There are two industries in the world that refer to customers as 'users'. One is the IT industry. The other is the illegal drugs industry.
Tony, High Wycombe

Norway has a longer coastline than USA
Oeikli

The only footballer to play in the Glasgow derby, the Manchester derby and the Liverpool derby is Andreij Kanchelskis!
Greg Davies, Reading

You can turn MS Excel 97 into a (basic) flight simulator by doing this: Press F5 to open a new workbook type in "X97:L97" click OK press Tab once hold down Ctrl + Shift and then click on the Chart Wizard icon. Use the mouse to steer the left and right buttons to control the speed. Press Ctrl + Shift + Esc to exit. Whaddya think of that?!
alicefunnell

Everyone brings joy to this office, some when they enter, others when they leave.
Chris S, Bicknacre

'Coca-Cola' translates to Chinese as 'Bite the wax tadpole'
Web Mistress

My dad had a friend who married a schizophrenic called Annette. She had a terrible time trying to pull herself together after she married Mr Curtain.
Bob Lakey, Airdrie

My mum still makes me sandwiches for work!
marinos

When you see a statue of a soldier on a horse in a park: if the horse has both front legs off the ground, the rider died in battle; if the horse has just one front leg off the ground the rider died from wounds they got in battle; and if the horse has all 4 legs on the ground the rider died from natural causes.
Lucy C, Ripon

Britney Spears is modern rhyming slang for 'beers'. e.g. "Give us a couple of Britneys will ya Doreen"
Andrew Hare

Architectural working drawings cannot be done by interpretive dance
David McConnachie, Ottawa, Canada

My cat uses our neighbours' ponds as self-service sushi bars
david.mcneight

Women will never be equal until there are mediocre women in top jobs (Julie Burchill, I think).
Jan, Maidenhead

I once borrowed as many pens as I could from all my classmates (in a boring English class) and was able to hang all 47 of them on my head, ie on nose, ears, glasses, hair etc. - a new school record.
Omega3

About the comment that "Knightsbridge" is the word with the most consecutive consonants, that's wrong - it only has 6. Dysrhythmia and polyrhythms have 9 consecutive consonants.
Simon Biber, Australia

the word TRIVIA is derived from Roman times when they would post notices and info on boards (the first billboards?) at crossroads or the meeting of THREE WAYS hence TRI-VIA.... bet ya didn't know THAT!
nick

Does anyone know where my good shovel is?
H, Bottom of the Garden

There is an empty vodka bottle stuck to my kitchen floor, and I have no idea how it got there. I suspect my flatmate.
Little Star

'Knightsbridge' is the word with the most consonants in a row...
Peter Wilson, London

I am sitting typing this wearing a snake print chemise.
timcarson

The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
Vik, London

CHELSEA F.C WILL NOT WIN THE F.A CUP
Cardenal Sin

The buttons that are on a man's jacket cuff date back to the decorations that used to be used to stop manservants wiping their noses on the sleeves of their uniforms - esp in Russia
Felicity Richardson, Cornwall

After Noah built the Ark and survived the Great Flood, God appeared to him and asked him to build another Ark seven decks high. "Another Ark, my Lord? Am I to fill it with 2 of every creature again?". God replied "No, you will fill it with fish". "Ah", said Noah "a Multi-Storey Carp Ark"
brunhilde

Why keep red wine at room temperature? Red wine has been around for hundreds of years, but central heating has not. Red wine, if anything should be slightly chilled - certainly less than 19 degrees, the 20th/21st century room temp!
Tyler D

The intestine of a Southern Asian dweller is 2" shorter than a European
Brown Derek T

I spiked the Christmas punch last year. Sorry Dad.
Pen Brown, London

In March 1992 a man living in Newton near Boston, Massachusetts received a bill for his as yet unused credit card stating that he owed $0.00. He ignored it and threw it away. In April he received another and threw that one away too. The following month the credit card company sent him a very nasty note stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn't send them $0.00 by return of post. He called them, talked to them, they said it was a computer error and told him they'd take care of it. The following month he decided that it was about time that he tried out the troublesome credit card figuring that if there were purchases on his account it would put an end to his ridiculous predicament. However, in the first store that he produced his credit card in payment for his purchases he found that his card had been cancelled. He called the credit card company who apologised for the computer error once again and said that they would take care of it. The next day he got a bill for $0.00 stating that payment was now overdue. Assuming that having spoken to the credit card company only the previous day the latest bill was yet another mistake he ignored it, trusting that the company would be as good as their word and sort the problem out. The next month he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had 10 days to pay his account or the company would have to take steps to recover the debt. Finally giving in, he thought he would play the company at their own game and mailed them a check for $0.00. The computer duly processed his account and returned a statement to the effect that he now owed the credit card company nothing at all. A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he was doing writing a check for $0.00. After a lengthy explanation the bank replied that the $0.00 check had caused their check processing software to fail. The bank could not now process ANY checks from ANY of their customers that day because the check for $0.00 was causing the computer to crash. The following month the man received a letter from the credit card company claiming that his check had bounced and that he now owed them $0.00 and unless he sent a check by return of post they would be taking steps to recover the debt. The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer for her birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.
Richard Newton, Birmingham

The Bank of England was founded by a Scotsman, and The Bank of Scotland was founded by an Englishman.
Irene D, Inverclyde

Tap water has already passed through eight human bodies
Bwar73

I used to work in a zoo circumsizing elephants - the wages were crap, but the tips were massive!
James Burnell, Stirling

In the Wizard of Oz, one of the Munchkins steps forwards and says "Judy" instead of "Dorothy".
Nish

I have submitted 782 things we didn't know so far this evening and not one of them has appeared on the website. Yet.
Doctor Scott, Coventry

my dog can't spell
Pompey Daz

If the space between the nucleus and the electrons of every atom was taken out the whole universe would fit into 1cm cubed!
Frost 2050

Hawaiian lava when polished makes beautiful jewellery.
Jacob

There is very little advice in men's magazines. This is because a guy thinks 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked'.
Mike W, London

Your body treats anything more than 8% alcohol as a poison and doesn't process some of it. That's why cider (normally around 7-8%) gets you the most drunk. Also mixing spirits gets you more drunk them drinking them neat. I bet you didn't know that.
Andrew

Niagara Falls is switched off at night.
M Pirso

Since light travels faster than sound, is that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?
Wideboy

The reason why the English Channel is 2 feet higher on the French side is, contrary to popular opinion, nothing to do with centrifugal force. It's because the French are slowly stealing our water - that's why there've been so many droughts in the UK over the last few years.
Andy, Oman

in the Philippines there is actually a dress shop named Elizabeth Tailoring and a bakery called Anita Bakery
Frances Posa

The first man to die during the construction of Hoover Dam in the 1930s was the son of the last man to die whilst undertaking work on its construction.
Craig Alan Smith

My great great great grandad played the bagpipes to a penguin at the South Pole in 1902. He was on the Scottish National Scientific Expedition (1902 to 1904). He was in full Highland Dress and had the penguin tied to his foot with a piece of string:
Maggi Robinson

The castaway 2000 programme is actually a thriller series set up by the BBC. The castaways are all actors, and slowly, month by month they are intending on building it into a "blair-witch" style program. The transformation has already started; in the last episode there was a tin of paint that had been sabotaged and the gates to the pig enclosure had been mysteriously left open. Chance; I think not. Just wait and see.
Cueball

If you cut the heads off two cockroaches and join the head of one to the body of the other using a thin plastic straw (such as the inside of a biro) the body of one will walk around using the other one's head to see and can actually eat and live for quite a while as the food that the head eats passes the juices along the straw to the body. Give it a try, it's a laugh.
Dave Allen

A MAN WENT TO A FANCY DRESS PARTY WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND ON HIS SHOULDERS. HIS FRIEND SAID "WHAT HAVE YOU COME AS?" HE REPLIED, "A SNAIL. THIS IS MICHELLE."
Barbara, Runcorn

there is a site on the web with a 24hr web cam pointed at the spot where the second coming of Jesus is supposed to take place.
Salksk

The Sargasso Sea laps at the shores of preciously no nations - being as it is a region of the western Atlantic Ocean entirely surrounded by more... er... ocean.
Darren

Your image should be upside down when looking in a mirror.
Mike Kozlowski

It's actually 2004 - one of the popes decided he didn't like what happened 4 years during his lifetime and re-wrote history.
Fan 2107

I can fit a calculator in my mouth
Dean

There's a green rose growing in Little St Mary's Churchyard in Cambridge.
Lyon Liz

This stuff about the universe being flat is just not true - I saw a small lump in it yesterday.
S Hyde

How many flies does it take to screw in a light bulb? Two, but I don't know how they got in there...
Culloch

Whilst in bed you can protect yourself from vampires and werewolves by hiding under the covers.
Gordon Brown

The only person in the World that Bruce Lee thought would beat him in a fight was Muhammed Ali
Alee

I recently featured in a Blackpool tourist brochure eating prawns at the Pleasure Beach. Guess this makes me a "soft-prawn" star!
Emsiecov

A friend of mine gets paid to watch Star Wars. He makes up for this by reading Chaucer in his spare time.
Derick Williamson

The oxymoron of the moment: "Microsoft Works"
Steve

Why do we clink glasses when we 'cheers' someone before drinking? Because in mediaeval times they would clash glasses so that liquid from each glass would spill into one another's glass & prove that both were drinking with good will and not to poison each other!
Waldersley

There's a patch of very vivid green fur on the bottom of my coffee mug, which may well turn out to be a cure for cancer. Or maybe a cause of sickness and diarrhoea.
G R B, Cambridge

Shooters Hill in S E London is the highest point, in a straight line, drawn between London & Moscow
Brian

Whoopie Goldberg has secretly married Peter Cushing - she is now known as...
Gary Haberfield

Iwoot means in Korean,"neighbourhood" or neighbour.
Cipro

i used to be a werewolf but i am alright now
David Cato

Acne is caused by watching Chuck Norris movies
Bouch

If you get biro on your blouse or shirt and spray it with hairspray it comes out.
Tina

The least successful exhibition ever was held by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents at Harrogate in 1968. The entire display fell down.
Thomas

People from Portsmouth spit out of the windows of their cars on entering Southampton.
Paul Wright, Portsmouth

Tribes around the world used to use goldfish as currency, dried of course, because they thought they looked pretty and humans have always been magpies at heart. In fact, when these were no longer suitable because entire vaults of goldfish would decompose if there was too much moisture in the atmosphere, gold coins were fashioned in the shape of the fish, to be used as a replacement. However after a year or two it was discovered that the fins and tails of these coins were catching in trouser pockets and wearing them through, so they were removed and the round coins that we know these days came into being.
Flipmo Jim

Trees break wind.
M Anderson

In tribute to those 'special' customers we all love! An award should go to the United Airlines gate agent in Denver for being smart and funny and making her point when confronted with a passenger who probably deserved to fly as cargo. A crowded United flight was cancelled. A single agent was rebooking a long line of inconvenienced travelers. Suddenly an angry passenger pushed his way to the desk. He slapped his ticket down on the counter and said "I HAVE to be on this flight and it has to be FIRST CLASS." The agent replied "I'm sorry sir. I'll be happy to try to help you but I've got to help these folks first and I'm sure we'll be able to work something out." The passenger was unimpressed. He asked loudly so that the passengers behind him could hear "Do you have any idea who I am?" Without hesitating the gate agent smiled and grabbed her public address microphone. "May I have your attention please?" she began her voice bellowing throughout the terminal. "We have a passenger here at the gate WHO DOES NOT KNOW WHO HE IS. If anyone can help him find his identity please come to the gate." With the folks behind him in line laughing hysterically the man glared at the United agent, gritted his teeth and swore F*** you!" Without flinching she smiled and said "I'm sorry sir but you'll have to stand in line for that too."
Marc Cohen, Herts

The term "devil's advocate" comes from the Roman Catholic church. When deciding if someone should be sainted, a devil's advocate is always appointed to give an alternative view.
Andy, London

The original Han Solo was meant to played by Christopher Walken
Ant Harding

They are building little tunnels for hedgehogs so they don't get squished on roads. Now all hedgehogs can get stuck in tunnels and die instead of being squished. I think being a hedgehog must be hard.
Victoria Walters, Southampton

According to a new study, 63% of men surveyed said they like to settle an argument by having sex. The other 37% of the men said they would never want to get into an argument with those men.
Big Mike

Siemens have a depot in Staines
Sean

Want to hold up a bank in Latin? "Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis ad caput tuum saxumim mane mittam." (I have a catapult. Give me all the money or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.)
Victor Chong, London

Mexicans worry about tourists scandalising their wardrobes (Sign on hotel room door: "Please do not scandalise the wardrobes" - Gran Hotel, Merida)
Steve King

Dylan Thomas's last words were "17 whiskeys. That must be a record."
Martin L

In Japan hospitals don't have fourth or ninth floors why? the number 4 is pronounced "shi" and means DEATH and the number 9 is pronounced "ku" which means PAIN.
Steve Evans, St Albans

The first official international football match was played at the West of Scotland Cricket Club in Partick in 1872. It was between Scotland and England.
Bri Williamson

Ducks actually have telescopic legs which can extend up to 17 feet to allow them to stand on the bottom of ponds. They need this because they are actually made of lead and would otherwise sink
A & M Martin

Big Ben was slowed by five minutes one day in 1945 when a passing group of starlings decided to take a rest on the minute hand of the clock.
Annie Noel, Beds

The best cure for seasickness, ever... Sit under a tree.
Matt Brown

Mackerel have the smallest relative turning circle of any fish.
Shep

You can't drive an 11 year old French car from London to Dublin in April without getting rained on - it's a statistical impossibility.
John Scally, Enfield

In a crash at Silverstone a driver called David Purley survived a deceleration from 108mph to 0 in 66cm (26 inches). He endured 179.8g (G-Force) and suffered from 29 fractures, 3 dislocations and six heart stoppages.
JK7

I see dead people...
D Parazzoli

I like work. It fascinates me... I can sit and look at it for hours!
Katie Stimson, London

There is no such thing as a useless fact - it will be some good to somebody.
The Reality Monster

Yield gracefully when someone pushes in front of you. Then you can stab them in the back...
Elf

Remove a dint from a carpet by placing an ice cube in a spoon and resting it in the dint. It'll spring back up.
Kevin O'Brien, Liverpool

Bats always exit and enter their caves from the left. Airline pilots use this principle to avoid crashing as they are trained to turn left in the event of a possible collison.
Jeff Hunter

The world record for constipation is 108 days
Andy Ball

The cat could be your downfall...
Beccy Foote, Nottingham

You can use toothpaste as blu-tack if you don't want to tear off paint/wallpaper. It washes off easily.
Res 35

there are 256 different words for 'rice' in China
Chittara

I said no to drugs but they didn't listen.
Sean Elliott, Chester

Opposite Karl Marx' tombstone in Highgate cemetery, is that of a bloke called Herbert Spencer (a nineteenth century philosopher who first coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest'). "Marx & Spencer" are thus buried close together.
Stephen Maidment

Coca-Cola was originally green.
A Z Fong

The internet is often referred to as the 'WEB' as it was originally conceived by the Welsh Electricity Board. The internet that we know now is based on their initial idea of connecting all of the computers in Wales with a tiny thread along which spiders would carry messages.
Steve Bridgeman, Long Eaton

If you place both of your hands together, fingers spread apart and bend your index fingers into the middle so that the first joints on the finger are touching, it's impossible to move the finger next to them (nearest the little finger) apart. This is because both fingers share one muscle tendon.
Alex T

more people are killed each year by donkeys than in plane crashes.
Mr Benn

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence
Conway Billington, Huddersfield

If trees are made of wood, where do they get the wood from to make the trees?
Ken Nightair

dogs don't move their lips when they read
Chris Polmear

If you mouth the word 'colourful' to someone, it looks like you are saying 'I love you'!
Joy Luxford, Wellingborough

This years different, I've been on the phone, Just got engaged and feeling so high, I'm ready to cook all those mince pies, It's probably not what you wanted to know, But I'm so happy, I've come up from my low.
Jess Fisher

A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
Noel Taylor

Dogs stopped doing those 80s white shites because their food improved in quality - FACT
Paul Black, Glasgow

All these talking machines are getting me down. My car tells me to put my seatbelt on, my fridge tells me to shut the door and my table lamp tells me to go out and kill people.
Matt Smith

Frank Zappa's best guitar solo is on "Watermelon on Easter Hay"
S Smith-Langridge

A falling cat always lands on its paws and buttered toast always falls butter side down. Cats' paws are therefore made of butter.
Stuart Young, Southampton

Everyone's doing the Len Ganley Stance
david

I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met
Simon Bond

Perpetual motion: toast always land buttered-side-down. Cats always land on their feet. Strap a slice of buttered toast to the back of a cat and drop it. It will hover, slowly spinning, inches above the ground. This energy can be harnessed with a dynamo.
Oliver Kreitman, London

in mediaeval times, piglets used to be sold by the bag load. To save money unscrupulous dealers used to put a kitten in the bag to make up the required weight. This is where we get the phrase "let the cat out of the bag", meaning you've been found out.
John Busby

At the height of the Cold War the Americans made the smallest drill bit they possibly could and sent it to the Russians as a display of their power. The Russians promptly drilled a hole through the bit and sent it back.
Mark Monger

There was no reference to 'The Virgin Mary' in the original bible - it was a mistranslation of 'A young girl Mary'.
Stuart Randell, London

There is a chemical in bananas and cheese which destroys plaque on your teeth, so bananas and cheese are very good to eat after a meal!
liz slimon

Who is the only person to legally travel through a red traffic light? A postman delivering a declaration of war
R Stevens

Cheese. It's just milk's attempt to become immortal!
Sam Turner, Derby

Simon is probably going to Slough.
Gary Caldwell

I was half time entertainment at Luton v Arsenal 1989
Caz Butler

Hull City is the only British league football team which hasn't got any letters you can fill in with a biro!
Dave Edwards, Sutton Coldfield

Malta, although one of the smallest countries in the world, is also the most bombed country in the world.
d cassar

'The artist formerly known as prince' is an anagram of "no first-rate workmanship recently"
Shelving Unit

Jamie Oliver (the "Naked Chef") uses human flesh to cook all his stuff. The bastard.
Mike Thorpe, Stockport

20th US President James Garfield was the second to be shot in office. Doctors tried to find the bullet with a metal detector invented by Alexander Graham Bell, but the device failed because Garfield was placed on a bed with metal springs, and no one thought to move him. He died on September 19, 1881.
Carl B, Clethorpes

The bloke that used to do the voice overs for Gerry Adams played the now deceased Butch Dingle in Emmerdale
P K Ryder

If you stand in the middle of a library and go 'Aaaaaaagghhhh!' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an airplane and everyone joins in!
Dave Hefford, Northampton

I would be very glad if you could sell stupid animals like badgers.
Its Me

the QE2 only does 6 inches to a gallon of fuel!
Aaron Pearce

Fellas - if you're aiming to impress the girls by putting rugby socks in your pants... always remember it works best with them down the FRONT.
Craig Pert, Aberdeen

Tmesis is the only word in English starting "tm" and means one word within another. Fanbloomintastic.
MCFS

Twenty years ago if you dropped a stone down a Lanarkshire coalmine you would have hit a decent footballer. And probably killed him.
Franco

The wind is caused by trees moving to and fro, thereby causing a draught.
Don Pardoe, Halesowen

Sorry Alex Brookes - "People from Newcastle are called Geordies because...", the true fact is that the miners used to have a lamp that was made by a company called Geordie (or thereaboots), another company (Tilly) made a lamp that was lighter. Most miners opted for the Tilly lamp but the lads from Newcastle way preferred the Geordie Lamp, therefore getting the name of GEORDIES... I thank you, Peter
Peter Ginga Heney, Scouseville

It is categorically not true that Santa came out of a Glasgow chimney to find Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer up on four bricks
Razor

The plaice is the only fish that can program a video recorder
Chris Coates, Ormskirk

People from Newcastle are called Geordies because... a long time ago when England fought Scotland those from Newcastle, the furthest north town of England, were on King George's side i.e. they were George's... over time it became Geordies.
Alex Brookes

Ex-Celtic manager Wim Jansen is now famous as Scottish slang for dancing eg 'You going to the Wim on Saturday?'
Andy

Did you know that MIGROS supermarket in Switzerland do THE most amazing coconut yoghurt ever?
Pierre-Eric Simon, London

We think it's amazing that salmon travel thousands of miles each year to mate in the same place. However, each year 1.5 million people from the UK go to Spain for the same reason...
Jay Baldwin

The anal temperature of a hibernating bear is 98 degrees F
P J Pinchin

24 hours in a day - 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
Peter Hunt, Bromsgrove

Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before. But the ride always ends and you end up feeling lonely and bitter. Wait. It's not love I'm describing. I'm thinking of a monorail.
Mike R Welch

It is illegal to flush the loo in Switzerland after 10pm !!
S2K

In the gent's toilets in the basement of what was Sir John Cass College in Jewry Street London EC, you pee against the old Roman London Wall.
Frank Minney, London

Absinthe makes the tart grow fonder...
Simon T.

I taught my Grandmother to suck eggs.
Thomas Taylor

'Ta ceann dibh sin ag teastil uaim' is Irish for "I want one of those" & it's pronounced 'taw k-ann doh shin egg te-ass-till u-mmm'
Karl Seagrave, Dublin

It costs 200 for a police search and rescue helicopter to take off, and 500 per hour to keep it up there, and they don't half make sure you know it when your missing mate is found asleep under a tree...
N Thorp

spinach has no more iron than any other green leafy vegetable - it was simply a typo which a publisher made when writing a book on nutritional values
Suruchi Sthalekar

Goths are not miserable sods. We're all (well mostly) very chirpy. Thank-you-ever-so-much.
Matt Burns, Edinburgh

A radioactive cat has 18 half lives.
Chief Moamba, London

The South African Mabooboo monkey eats its own faeces during winter to help maintain a constant body temperature. That's a complete lie.
S Wallace

If Bill Gates stuffed his $63Billion fortune under his mattress (in dollar bills) and he fell out of bed, it would take him 18 minutes to hit the floor.
Kirsty McPherson, Fleet

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was written by Ian Fleming, was produced by 'Cubby' Broccoli, starred Gert Frobe as Baron Bombast, featured Desmond Llewelyn as Coggins and contained a car with natty tricks up its sleeve (e.g. flying). Goldfinger was written by Ian Fleming, produced by 'Cubby' Broccoli, starred Gert Frobe as Auric Goldfinger, featured Desmond Llewelyn as Q and contained a car with natty tricks up its sleeve (e.g. an ejector seat).
Rob S.

Panama hats are made in Ecuador.
Martin Walker

Is anorachnophobia a fear of all things technical and nerdy?
Sharon Shephard

There is people, who lives in Finland.
S. Akarppi

The registration number of the 1974 dodge police car owned by The BLUES BROTHERS was BDR 529
Andy

most people have heard of things that are 'nocturnal' which refers to the night but did you know that things that flourish in the evening are known as 'vespertine'?
Paul Whitlock

If all the cars in the UK were put end to end it would probably be a typical bank holiday.
Zed

all the clocks in Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20pm
Garry

The most poisonous spider is not the black widow but the wingless daddy longlegs however their fangs cannot pierce human skin and so pose no threat.
Neil Hawke

Red meat isn't bad for you. Green meat is.
Ooky

man did not land on the moon. It was all staged at a secret TV studio!
Norm Burns

The piece of paper that you fold up and put under a table leg to stop it wobbling is called a Ludlow.
My Friend Ian

Take a wet tea bag and rub it over your favourite picture. It will make it look older and more valuable.
Dee Topaz

Mushrooms have as many as thirty-six thousand sexes. This could make blind dates a bit risky.
Rob Fallows

If you got all the vehicles registered in Andorra and laid them end to end you would need twelve more miles of road than Andorra has...
Bex Is

A little something for all fellow women out there: if you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it will always be yours. If it doesn't come back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money and doesn't appear to realise that you had set it free... you either married it or gave birth to it.
Nina E.

This is a silly section
Andy Z

With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.
Dave Hefford

I fell onto the Earl's Court underground electric rail after the England-Greece match a couple of weeks ago and knocked myself out. Have been described in the ambulance as 'the luckiest bastard in London'. Apparently I fell backwards onto my neck and my body twisted 180 degrees. They reckon I should have either broken my neck, been electrocuted or hit by a train, but I wasn't! Must have lost three lives though...
Neil Mitchell

Salvador Dali designed the Chupa-Chups wrapper
Joygasm

If travel broadens that mind what happened to Judith Charmers?
Kate Mott

A Freudian slip occurs when you say one thing, but mean your mother.
James

What does a donkey have for lunch? Half an hour.
R J Heward

Old telephone books make ideal personal address books if you simply cross out the names and addresses of people you don't know.
Gordon Brown

The urethra in the average human penis is twisted a quarter turn to the right to 'rifle' the urine and force it to spin, allowing it to be aimed. I appear not to have this.
Laurie McNab

Edward Woodward has four Ds in his name because otherwise he'd be Ewar Woowar.
AMC

Pronounce "God Jesus" backwards...
Duncan

My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets
Jennifer Eccles

Subaru backwards is 'U R A Bus'
G D Maclean

I feel like an 18 year old. My wife won't let me have one.
David

Last month I bought some HP sauce. I only have 11 more payments.
Martin Wildebeast

Take a slug of Baileys and swill it around your mouth like mouthwash. WITHOUT swallowing add a slug of lime cordial. Kaboom - one cement mixer
Laura Hitchcock

When reclaiming old graveyards for new developments, a disturbing number of the exhumed coffins have scratch marks on the inside of the lids.
Aaron

I was once involved in an EU project to grow cannabis that wouldn't get you high. We failed.
Nigel McCulloch

Two out three people wonder where the other one is.
Optimum

You can work out the temperature outside by listening to crickets. It is calculated by the time between chirpy noises (then add 30)
Amy Stupple-Bagnall

Dalek means "very far away" in Serbo-Croat.
James Alex Marshall

NOT ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME! I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET THERE BY ROAD FOR YEARS
Simon George

What shape does a pear go when everything goes wrong?
Anton Iglet

The range for remote controls for car alarms can be extended by placing them under your chin and concentrating when pressing the button.
Dave Marler

Veal is not actually an animal
Julien

Smoking can seriously shorten your cigarettes.
Max Smyth

A cat in Mexico had so many fleas that it wasn't until 4 days after it died that people realised that it was dead. Its owner reported seeing the cat move from the living room to the kitchen 2 days after it died. He said "I thought its fur felt a bit odd when I stroked it as it passed me, but you know what cats are like".
Daniel, Southampton

If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do the rest follow?
Philip Carvalho

Did you know that Bernini's carvings around one of the altars in St.Peter's, Rome are the facial expressions of his daughter during the varying stages of her pregnancy?
Margaret Wray

I only go to confessional to develop photographs
Themrog

One third of all Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.
Fat Andy

Bikinis are a privilege, not a right.
K. Deb Langer

The word loo came about when British soldiers went to France and the French would put them in hotels with 100 rooms; the last room would be the toilet, which happened to be the 100th room in the hotel
Jue

In China, the beer we drink (Tsing Dao) is made with formaldehyde (that's embalming fluid). Gives you a rotten hangover but it's very drinkable.
Warren, Beijing

I think this guy should have been promoted, not fired. This is a true story from the Word Perfect Helpline which was transcribed from a recording monitoring the customer care department. Needless to say the HelpDesk employee was fired; however, he/she is allegedly currently suing the Word Perfect organization for termination without cause. Actual dialogue of a former Word Perfect Customer Support employee: Ridge hall computer assistance; may I help you? Yes, well, I'm having trouble with Word Perfect. What sort of trouble? Well, I was just typing along, and all of a sudden the words went away. Went away? They disappeared. Hmm. So what does your screen look like now? Nothing. Nothing? It's blank; it wont accept anything when I type Are you still in Word Perfect, or did you get out? How do I tell? Can you see the C: prompt on the screen? What's a see-prompt? Never mind, can you move your cursor around the screen? There isnt any cursor: I told you, it won't accept anything I type. Does your monitor have a power indicator What's a monitor? Its the thing with the screen on it that looks like a TV. Does it have a little light that tells you that its on? I don't know. Well, then look on the back of the monitor and find where the power cord goes into it. Can you see that? Yes, I think so. Great. Follow the cord to the plug, and tell me if its plugged into the wall. Yes, it is. When you where behind the monitor, did you notice that there were two cables plugged into the back of it, not just one? No. Well, there are. I need you to look back there again and find the other cable. Okay here it is. Follow it for me, and tell me if its plugged securely into the back of your computer. I cant reach. Uh huh. Well, can you see if it is? No. Even if you maybe put your knee on something and lean way over? Oh, it's not because I don't have the right angle, it's because it's dark. Dark? Yes, the office light is off, and the only light I have is coming in from the window. Well, turn on the office light then. I can't. No? Why not? Because there's a power failure. A power... a power failure? Aha, okay, we've got it licked now. Do you still have the boxes and manuals and packaging stuff your computer came in? Well, yes, I keep them in the closet. Good. Go get them, and unplug your system and pack it up just like it was when you got it. Then take it back to the store where you bought it from. Really? Is it that bad? Yes Im afraid it is Well, all right then, I suppose. What do I tell them? Tell them that your too ****ing stupid to own a computer."
Jamie Campbell, Glasgow

over 2 million stone blocks were used to build the largest pyramid at Giza - these same blocks could produce a two metre high wall running the whole way around France !
Bull in the Woods

'Mi pierna artificial es apenas noticable' means 'my artificial leg is barely noticable' in Spanish.
Jo Asker

You cannot see the Great Wall of China from outer space or the moon - a fact verified by Neil Armstrong. The wall may be incredibly long but it's just too thin.
Mark Walters

Karl Marx's last words were "last words are for fools who haven't said enough"
Kevin Byrne

According to legend, cheese was "discovered" 4,000 years ago when an Arabian merchant journeyed across the desert, carrying a supply of milk in a pouch.
Boyle On The Bum

Hanging is too good for a man who writes puns. He should be drawn and quoted.
Donald McGill

Gethin's girlfriend squeaks instead of snoring.
Dan

Pushing a fifty pence piece into plasticine then filling the imprint with water and freezing it creates ice fifites. These can then be usen in electricity meters and when the temperature rises, hey presto, the 'evidence' disappears.
O Johnston

Apparently if you type the following backwards: natas evol i it says "I love Satan". Spooky.
U Want Fries

14p per litre unleaded fuel in Falkland Islands
Stevie Harrod

The bitter end is not an emotion, but a knot in the end of a painter (rope) to stop it passing through the "bits" on the deck of a ship. That do?
Mike Ryalls

Auto makers have installed black boxes in four-wheel drive vehicles and pick-up trucks in an effort to determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash. They were surprised to find that in most countries the last words of drivers in 61.2 per cent of fatal crashes were translated as, "Oh, Sh*t!" Only Australia was different, where 89.3 percent of the final words were: "Hold my beer and watch this!"
Chris Barton Fox

The L39 jet that you have for sale is the same model as those used for the opening sequence of Goldeneye. I know
Chris Gilmartin

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
Richard Winborn

The Apple logo is based on the suicide method chosen by the original Enigma cracker.
Claud

a volunteer is someone who misunderstood the question
N J Blackburn

I used to think my brain was my favourite part of my body... then I realised what was making me think that!
Tariq's Mum

When you're going out the office, put hula hoops under each leg of your colleague's chair. They'll get a hell of a shock when they sit down again.
Martin Kelly

The boat (sorry catamaran) featured in the no object page of this site was built by my grandfather who is a elf and is made completely out of spent match sticks and made seaworthy by using the lining of his stomach after 30 pints of goblin brew and a small kebabbed hermit crab. I bet you didnt know that. I am also an incurable liar and have no friends other than a small mouse and a piece of rope witch to hang myself.
Sven Jensen

Quote from Arthur C Clarke - "How inappropriate to call this planet 'Earth', when it is clearly 'Ocean'...
Susan Clark Wilson

Signing your letters with "Relentlessly" makes a better point than "Sincerely".
John Leslie

Margaret Thatcher invented Mr Whippy icecream by developing a special type of antifreeze when she was a chemist.
Gus Neil

Weddings and funerals in Sudan: Being a guest at a wedding is not just an excuse to lob raw confetti about. It is also an excuse to to climb aboard a camel and fire an AK-47 rifle into the air. One guest in this African state got a bit excited and managed to fall off his camel in the process of shooting. On his way to the ground he managed to kill three guests with the high-powered bullets.
M Kitara

Where does your lap go when you stand up?
Bart

Beat the credit card companies at their own game. Run up a massive bill on your credit cards and then kill yourself before your statement arrives
A J Green

If you weighed everyone in the world with every living creature, ants would make up more than 10% of the final total.
Beverley Smith

I looked up the word 'paranoid' in the dictionary. It said 'what do you want to know for?' Interestingly, I couldn't find the word 'camouflage' anywhere...
Mathew, Cardiff

You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead.
Barker Warwick

When on holiday abroad wash in coaltar soap everyday and you will not get bitten by mosquitos.
Linzi, Bristol

I always wanted to be somebody - now I see that I should have been more specific
Spurs 99

Socialism is where the poverty is shared out evenly.
Magrathea

There are more than twice as many nipples in the world than people. Around one person in 500 has an extra "auxiliary" nipple or Nevus.
Jonathan Hart, Chesterfield

Scotsmen's sporrans actually contain all the tongues of the people who keep asking them.
B J Beamish

The reason why Spanish people lisp a bit when talking is because years and years ago the king of Spain had a lisp and forced people in power and around him to speak the same way.
Stoopot

In the film Ben Hur, if you look carefully during the chariot race, you can just see a small red Renault car in the distance. True!
Pete Burchell, Blandford

Rene Descartes once walked into a bar. The barman said 'Like a drink?'. Rene replied 'I think not'. And promptly disappeared.
PJ, Isle Of Man

Did you know that the shadoof chant is the oldest song in the world???
Shane Darcy

Did u know the Chinese discovered smoking? Apparently some Chinese people were working in a tobacco field when a small fire was accidentally started. They could smell the tobacco burning and one of them said, "Mmmmm that smells nice - I think I'll go buy a packet of fags!"
Robbie Phayer, Sunderland

Cinderella did not wear glass slippers to the ball! The popular fairy tale has been mis-translated as her slippers were made from 'vaire' which is the same word in French as in English and refers to a type of fur. This has clearly become confused with 'verre', the French word for 'glass'! Surely fur slippers would be far more practical and comfortable?
Simone Shaw, Berkshire

Portsmouth Football Clubs first goalkeeper was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Melvyn Heybridge

mi pierna artificial es apenas noticable means 'my artificial leg is barely noticable' in Spanish
jo asker

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
Danni Doyle

98% of the recommended daily allowance of Fibrinogen (vitamin K) can be obtained by eating three small pebbles found on a beach.
James McQ

The fat, bald bloke I met on the bus earlier today was the school bully and now works in ladies lingerie at M&S!
Jaize

Christopher Lee is to be in new Star Wars film.
Martyn Brake

I have a spot on my bum in the shape of Gordon Brown
little miss monged

A woman with a PhD can't change her name (such as when she gets married) without losing her PhD. Because it's awarded only to one name!
Mathew Shore

scientists have slowed the speed of light down to 39 miles an hour
W Blore

the problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard
richard winborn

If I ever get a time machine I will come back to visit myself right... NOW... damn!!! Try it, it's fun.
Badooddu

'I want one of those dot com' is an anagram of 'need a smooth two of tonic'
D Schley

Quote from Arthur C Clarke - "How inappropriate to call this planet 'Earth' when it is clearly 'Ocean'...
susan clark wilson

If water is H2O... does that make ice H2O cubed?
Bryan Arthur

There isn't a Nobel prize for maths 'cause his wife had an affair with a mathematician!
Pink Tongue

Although they live in it dolphins don't drink water. They only drink 7-up.
benscher

If you go out for a curry, stick the toilet roll in the fridge for the next morning. It really does help!
Keir

Mother-in-law is an anagram of Woman Hitler
B T Dolan

If you want to say Hello in catspeak blink very slowly as you are looking at the cat then look away.
ana mcara

Victor Hugo once said, you can prevent the invasion of armies, but not the invasion of ideas. What he really meant to say was, you can prevent the invasion of armies, unless you're French.
Anna Bartlett

The nose on the statue of liberty is 6ft 4"
Richard Nelson

The Simpsons are just drawings.
crimbo

If you lay the Monument in London on its side, its tip will touch the spot where the Great Fire of London started.
Michelle Offen

a tin of beans puts a fire out nicely with a small explosion
Jowett

Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet didn't pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with "Return to sender" stamped on it. Forgetting it was the bomb he opened it and was blown to bits.
yvonne.evans

The reason a bungalow is so called is because once when builders were building a house, they finished the first floor and couldn't be bothered to do any more and so they said let's bung-a-low roof on it.
Laura Fisher

Dublin is the fastest growing city in the world... because it's Dublin every day
Full Monty 76

If you have been drinking then you should take alka seltzer before going to bed - NOT when you wake up or your hangover kicks in. This is becuase whilst you are a asleep it will replace all the vitamins and salts the body has lost through dehydration.
the boy pickard

Some people cause happiness wherever they go, some cause it whenever they go.
Dan Bowles

The catalytic converter on the new Porsche 911 is so powerfull that if driven in LA the exhaust fumes are cleaner than the poluted air taken in.
RK Irvine

'sapient' is an anagram of 'panties'.
s t anderson

If you send someone a bag of snow and it melts in the post, they won't get your drift.
M Broadbent

You can't make pineapple cheesecake.
Kathryn Tyler

angel fish acquire a stripe after winning a fight with another fish
e mahoney

If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry? And do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
Timothy Loudon

Libyan stamps are certified Kosher
Badger

A woman in America sat for 2 hours in a supermarket car park holding her brains in after being shot. When someone eventually came to her aid they found a can of Pilsbury Dough - it had exploded in the back of her car and splattered her on the back of her head.
bazpa

People usually smile (without knowing it) when looking at a flower.
Kez

My great grandfather was a shepherd and walked his sheep from Elgin (scotland) to london to sell them. A distance of around 500 miles
Iain Catto

Did u know that the soul function of the appendix is so that the digestive system can still function when crouched on all fours. Useless for humans but great for monkeys and animals alike.
jinmen

You don't know that I see pictures, like a cinema screen inside my head all the time... side by side with everyday life. One day everyone will know that each person, hears, smells, sees individually - we cannot assume that we function as one.
Felicity Odam

my front window's just fallen out onto a car below... cool!
Ceiron D

jetskiis are banned on sa rivers cause they suck the prawns out their holes
frosty

I have invented a cure for which there is no known disease.
Paul Millz

Dragons had hydrochloric acid in their belly and that's why there's no skeletal fossils of them
N Ryan

If a crab is in a basket it will climb out but if there is 3 crabs in the basket the other 2 will pull the crab back in
Siht

Following independence, the United States government voted to adopt an official language. English won (obviously) but only by ONE vote over German.
Emmric

The honey monster played for Newcastle as centre forward and goal keeper for Manchester united in the same season
Alistair Little

men who have pierced body parts are better prepared for marriage.they have experienced pain and brought jewellery.
h paul

In America many town names were changed in the late nineteenth century as many Indian place names were deemed either to rude or to unpronounceable, eg the lake which went by the pithy name "Chargoggagoggmanchauggauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg" which meant "You fish on that side, I'll fish on this side and no one will fish in the middle". However, few escaped the net and there are still people who a proud to come from Toad Suck, Arkansas and Idiotville, Oregon.
Colin Flynn

all males start off female in the womb
Cosmic Boy

If you put raisins in a glass of lemonade (fizzy) you get a low budget lava lamp!
mishmav

I think you should know that if I win this prize my girl has promised to be completely submissive for one night. Don't let me down please - our car needs a really good clean.
Paul Mon

Real Daleks don't climb stairs -- they level the building.
Salacious

One of the greatest mysteries surrounding the Bermuda Triangle is the fact that while geographically it is indeed located near Bermuda geologically it is in Dorset England.
a morgan

The word "Spodrum" was invented by my younger brother in 1996, and has since spawned a secret religion, a powerful empire, several small towns and a product that nobody quite understands.
Johnny Boy, Spodrumville

Medical research is a good way to earn money to buy toys. However the penile/finger swap is not worth the money they offer you.
Rhys

Mae West said "give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you"
paul

An Amazonian tribal ruler from an undeveloped part of South America visited the queen and was so taken by her throne that he had one installed in his hut. It took up too much room so he arranged a hoist to lift it to the roof. One night the hoist broke, the throne fell and killed him. This goes to prove that people who live in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones.
Charles Coxall

A helicopter that descends too fast will be subjected to "vortex ring state"
Smiling Assass1n

I want to die in my sleep like my granddad not screeming in terror like his passengers
john c

Apparently George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill had had a falling out. On the opening of his new play GBS sent WC a note with two tickets inviting him to the premiere: 'and a friend, if you have one'. WC is said to have replied thanking GBS and saying that although he was busy that night he would be very pleased to attend the second night 'if there is one'.
Ali, Cambridge

my uncle Sid had a false leg with a real foot on the end!
Big Mark

Every e-mail phone and fax are monitored by the Government. Of course it's illegal to do this but here in the UK they do it and in the USA too and they just swap the info so they ain't breaking any laws. Its called Echelon...
mel blah

The largest city in North America was discovered in Texas in 1900. It was not built by people, but prairie dogs - about 400 million of them. Their underground burrows covered more than 25,000 square miles.
I. Rainton

In the film Ben Hur you can actually see a 2CV in the background of one of the chariot races...
Gregor McInnes

If you Sneeze while traveling at 60 mph you will cover 60ft Blind!
steve forth

Electronic equipment runs on smoke - let the smoke out and it dies.
Presactly

A shark will only attack you if you're wet.
P Ninkovic

there's a man in Dublin who entertains bored drivers at traffic lights by playing the flute... wonderful except he hasn't got a flute! There's also a man in Ireland called Bang Bang. When someone walks past him he shouts "Bang! Bang!" and they actually fall over.
alex

When you get drunk and can't remember what you did, you never will... Memory isn't written when you black out, but unfortunately this does not affect photographs or what you wake up with.
Private Universe 2001

The average man has less than 2 legs
A Murray

In Coober Pedy, 836 km north of Adelaide, men and women live and work underground as it is too hot to live on the surface. Coober Pedy is located
buzz

If the earth was destroyed tomorrow, the only evidence for the existence of humans in the solar system would be a plaque on the moon bearing the names Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.
Pete Darby

never bet with a short butcher
Martin

Airports use urea (purified pee) to defrost runways
john.patterson

You didn't know that I interviewed the famous Hammarby goal keeper, Ronnie Hellstrom when i was 11 years old in the first McDonalds opening in Stockholm, Sweden.
Lotta

The croissant originally came from Turkey
Ulrica Marshall

Redbush tea has a cleansing effect on the body when drunk without milk. Redbush tea is naturally caffeine free and low in tannin.
sam

In Hungary, the satirical political publication equivalent to our 'Private Eye' is called 'Snowboots'. This is derived from the term used in Hungary to express feeling really fed up - 'my snowboots are full'.
Carole Le Gresley

Battersea power station is the largest construction in the world made of single house bricks
GS London

the hottest chilli sauce in the world can be bought from Peppers on the Pier, St Petersberg, Florida
susan davies

A cat's whiskers are exactly as wide as its body, so it knows if it can make it through a tight space or not.
Andrew

England have a national football team.
Nick Handley

I was going to get my hawk's beak trimmed but logged on to the web instead
clifton dj

In the Philippines (where I was born) every individual's middle name is from their mother's maiden name. For example my middle name is Cardenas (which means sardines) this was my mum's maiden name, which was my gran's surname (my Gran's middle name was her mum's surname). I'll be passing on the 'Sardine' surname because I am quite proud to know that somewhere along the line my granma ended up marrying one of the first Sardine family in the Philippines (which means they were amongst the first sardine fishermen in the Philippines).
Myra Umali

The only UK number 1 record to contain in its lyrics the title of the song which knocked it off number 1 was... Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen (lyric: "Mamma Mia")
Andrew T

wall to wall carpet is very difficult to cut to size. HINT: get your new carpet lay it on the ground and build a room around it.
jess brown

Brian Clough, at the end of his career as a footballer, became a loquacious club manager. After watching his Nottingham Forest team defeat QPR 5-2 in the Littlewoods Cup, Clough rushed on to the pitch to eject some spectators. In full view of TV cameras, he proceeded to clout offenders and clip them round the ears. An anonymous wit described this procedure as a case of 'the s**t hitting the fan'.
Nicholas Carey

The Phrase "Check Mate" comes from an Arabic phrase "Chaz Mat" meaning The King is Dead.
The Funky Brother

Bob Holness was the first James Bond (on radio)
terrace stomp

Ever wonder that, if practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, then why practise?
Divs

Did you know that Anna Kournikova is a tennis player as well?!!
P Tryn

My mate barry religiously throws up every morning and has done for the last 26 years - and no-one knows what wrong with him. How spooky is that?
alan.bierman

If you spread out all the sand in North Africa it would completely cover the Sahara Desert
Freak Avatar

The Louvre was first constructed as a fortress in 1190 by King Philippe-Auguste to protect Paris against Viking raids.
Julie Warren-Wickford

Did you know that if you find yourself in the South African bush and you've somehow managed to cut yourself you can stitch up the wound by using the s.african bush ant. you take the ant by the body and place one of its rather large pincers on one side of the cut and then angle the ant(now pretty p***ed off) so that the other pincer now can reach the otherside of the cut and let the ant bite. This forces the cut closed and you finish off by snapping the ant's body off from its head. the ant head will not release until you decide to see a real doc.
silver_surfer

I read recipes like I read science fiction; I get to the end and think, 'That'll never happen.'
M. Boyce

if you take norway and stand it up on the southern most tip then let it drop southwards its northern most tip would reach morocco
P Dungey

Before she won her Oscar and became a New Labourite MP Glenda Jackson used to work in the 2 Is coffee bar in Old Compton Street and John Barry was one of her customers - 'One egg sandwich and one cup of coffee please Glenda!' he would say
kaleidos

Rudolph, from Russia, was a student studying in Minsk. At the end of term he was due to travel home to Moscow for the holidays, with his fellow students, by train. Whilst on the train and in need of refreshment, Rudolph's friend Vlad ordered some Tuborg from the refreshment carriage and gave them out to his friends on his return. Rudolph took one sip, stood up, slid the window open and leapt to his death to which one his astonished friends added... "of course we forgot... Rudolph The Red Loathes Train Beer"
Binks, Bristol

flies lose the stickiness on the ends of their feet if you trap them under a smoke-filled glass for a while.
Kirsty F

The Millennium Falcon from Star Wars was used as the base in Blade Runner!
jp4chat

Apparently most women are very slightly knock-kneed to balance out their wider child-bearing pelvises with a central point of support! Hmmm, that's my excuse anyway and I'm sticking to it!
Emma, Dublin

There are more Jews in New York than Israel!
S Maskell

Men's jackets and shirts have the buttons on the right (from the wearers' point of view) and the holes on the right, whereas women's have it the other way round... why? Because back in the days when men used to carry pistols in their jackets, they would sometimes need to draw rapidly. With the buttons the way they are that means a man can easily reach through the buttons with his right hand to draw the pistol which would be situated on the left. It's the other way round on women's clothes cos shooting people wasn't a particularly ladylike thing to do. It also dramatically reduced the number of murderous transvestites that roamed the streets in the 18th century.
Arnolfini, Croydon

Segment 90876-MB-X2 of the human gene code is responsible for the metastasis of the medulla oblongata region of the brain therefore more prone to alzheimers disease
B11 GY

Two aerials fall in love get married the ceremony was a disaster but the reception was brilliant.
brett

Three days after death, hair & fingernails continue to grow, but calls taper off.
Phil Sutton, Farnborough

In New Zealand you are never more than 70 miles from the ocean.
B Wether

There's a WWII underground bunker that runs from Clapham South to Kennington where the Govt kept the contents of London's museums during the Blitz. It's disused now but you can still see the access silos at Clapham South, Clapham Common, Clapham North, Stockwell, Oval and Kennington.
poontang ltd

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man HOW to fish, and he will sit in a boat all day and drink beer.
Jace, Brighton

Buddha was born about 563 BC at Lumbini in what today is the kingdom of Nepal below the Himalayan foothills.
Viking 5359

Astrgyas the king of the Medes was told by the Delphic Oracle that if he attacked the Persians he would destroy a great Empire. He did - his own.
aparan

When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
Fluffy, Totnes

If you stretch both your arms fully across and measure from the distance from the tip of your middle finger - that will be your height
Ashpunj

The roads in northern Sweden sometimes seem exceptionally wide with very long straights. Reason? So the airforce can use them as runways in wartime.
magmaster

You can play "Moth Aircraft Carriers" by floating a shoe box in the bath with a torch attached. Leave a window open for ten minutes, then turn off the room lights and watch as the moths attempt to make their dramatic and dangerous landings.
G Field, Telford

the fluff that every human on earth gets in their belly button is actually put there by my uncle Steve. i know this coz he told me
Sam Smith

Did you know that the eskimos have 152 words for linguist?
mrs carey

As you sleep, unused energy is pushed out through you eyes in the form of 'sleep'. When you wake in the morning you'll find wee bits of yellowy stuff in the corner of your eyes. These are actually energy boosters and should be eaten.
Wilbert Ross, Belfast

I've just got home from a great holiday to find a load of grief on my doormat
Robin Carr

Most IT contractors are at least 120 years old (if you go by their timesheets)
malcolm.linge

There are three religious truths: 1. Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2. Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3. Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters.
David Gaite, West Vancouver, Canada

A termite walked into a bar and said 'Is the Bar Tender in here ?'
Richard Clark

There is a sea squirt (found in the seas near Japan) that digests its own brain. When the sea squirt is mature it permanently attaches itself to a rock. At this point it does not need to move anymore and has no need for a brain. So - waste not want not - it eats it!
true.blade

Hairdressers always ask you where you're going on holiday; why don't travel agents ask you where you have your hair done?
Tony, Croydon

Every film you ever watch on TV is speeded up by 4 percent. This is because film runs at 24 frames per second

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