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Things We Didn't Know

Marmite turns white(ish) if you pat it with a spoon. Ben, Swansea

Moodlights give you a nice outcome of your inner self.Kelly, Tacoma

Old golfers never die - they just loose their balls!John, Leeds

The tradition of carrying a bride across the threshold comes from the Romans.Alex, Cambridge

A shopping trolley is stolen every 90 seconds.Laura, Aberdeen

Axl Rose (lead singer of Guns n' Roses) chose his name because it is an anagram of oral sex.milli, manchester

Apparently, according to Stan Laurel, you can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead!Gary, Crewe

ANTIDOTES is the only anagram of STATIONED.Glenn Willshire, Milton Keynes

In London until 1973 it was still a requirement, BY LAW, to carry a bale of hay in a taxi.Ricky Prince, London

If you get the recommended 8 hours of sleep each night you will sleep over 2,900 hours each year.Qian Hui, Surrey

There are approximately ten million bricks in the Empire State Building.Qian Hui, Surrey

I fear sharks but only in a water situation...sharks on land are not scary. However this is reversed when you consider lions...Martin, Stevenage

There are entire websites dedicated to Gaffer tape!Ciaran, London

The black mamba gets its name from the colour of its mouth.renny

It is impossible to break wind on the deepest parts of the London underground, due to changes in air pressure.Tim, Manchester

Koalas are nature's biggest carriers of chlamidia.Winch, Newport IOW

In Grand Theft Auto 4 all the cars in the game dont have any proper numberplates!James, Herne bay

Your food recycle bin eats better than 30% of the people in this world.Sue, Manchester

Aparently we spend 336 hours in our lifetime kissing.Laura, Aberdeen

Did you know there is only one country in the world that begins with the letter "O"?Stuart, Glasgow

The collective term for bankers is a wunch. A wunch of bankers.Andrzej, Salisbury

(Rachel, Devon) Actually, most humans have slightly more than the average number of legs. The actual average must be slightly less than two due to amputees.Shaun, Nottingham

My granny could break a swan's wing with a single blow of her arm.Nick, Langport

The term 'money for old rope' comes from the days of public hangings. When the rope was too worn/old to use it was sold by the executioner to the spectators.Jo, Southampton

A Woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a Woodchuck could chuck if a Woodchuck could chuck wood :-DHayley, Radstock, Somerset

The first thirty minutes of your life was spent as a single cell. Qian Hui, Surrey

It's estimated that 20 % of the Earth's population breathes severely contaminated air, generally with carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide resulting from industrial processes. Qian Hui, Surrey

Michael Nesmith (of Monkees fame)'s mother actually invented Tipp-ex (Liquid Paper) and it was originally called Nes-Paper. While In The U.S. Army Michael also managed to tip over a generals plane while cleaning it. He also invented and patented the idea for MTV, originally 6 half hour shows aired on Nickelodeon and called "Pop Clips", after it was aired he sold the rights as he didn't wish to be involved in running a 24hour music channel.Gary, Scunthorpe

According to Jez in Taliesin on this page 'The biggest foot in the world is exactly 12 inches long.' If so then I have the biggest foot in the world! Elliot, Alrewas

Actually, St. Nicholas didn't live in any Turkish town as a user suggests, as the Turks came to the region several centuries later. He actually lived in the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantine, as it was named after its fall.Makis

Spike Milligan's gravestone reads 'I told you I was ill'. Max, London

An adult griaffe's kick is so powerful that it can decapitate a lion!Max, London

The only thing you can't do with your eyes open is sneeze.Sharon, Bransgore

An anagram of teacher is cheater.Scott, Leeds

there are 1073741824 bytes in a real Gigabyte but if you buy a one Gigabyte hard drive you are actualy only getting 1000000000 bytes or 0.93 Gigabytes and a Tera byte hard drive is actualy ony 909.5 Gigabytes not 1024 as it should be.Daryl, The Shetland Islands

Did you know that mosquitos have 47 teeth?Jeane, London

The chances of any idea being accepted by the hierarchy of any organisation is directly proportional to the rank of the suggester thereof, and inversely proportional to the amount of common sense contained therein.Davie, Onich, Scotland

The typical lightning bolt is two to four inches wide and two miles long. Qian Hui, Surrey

The oldest person ever was Jeanne Louise Calment, who died at 122 years old from smoking-related complications. Qian Hui, Surrey

Moomintrolls aren't real.Jack, Reading

When your shoe lace undoes by itself, it's The Borrowers hitching a ride.Jenny, Hinckley

Banana plants creep sideways as they get older.Debs, Wolverhampton

All sellotape rolls are made from 1 "mother" roll that has 6000m of tape.Adam, Hertfordshire

The collective term for ferrets is a business. A business of ferrets.Danni, manchester

You have over the average amount of legs.Rachel, Devon

The opposite sides of dice always add up to seven not six. Ken, Nottingham

The longest word in English vocabulary is 'Antidisestablishmentarianism'. Mike, Bristol

Las Vegas, Nevada is the brightest man-made place, when viewed from space. Qian Hui, Surrey

The average human body gives off enough heat in thirty minutes to bring a half gallon of water to boil (if we could concentrate that heat). Qian Hui, Surrey

In the mid 16th century, you could be hung for attempting to commit suicide.Rob, Ellerker

Your jaw is the strongest muscle in your body.Rob, Ellerker

Paint always dries darker, watercolour fades in the sun.gale, dewsbury

The biggest foot in the world is exactly 12 inches long.Jez, Taliesin

Bizarrely, Rasputin invented Angel Delight and trowels.Jez, Taliesin

Pythagoras (the guy with the theorem) avoided eating beans because he thought they had feelings!Marianne, Plymouth

Buttered (and jammed) toast will only land face-down 53% of the time... so, do you feel lucky, punk?richard, edinburgh

It requires 60 tonnes of paint to paint the Eiffel Tower.Chris, Haslemere

If Jupiter was a bit bigger, it would not be a planet anymore, but be another sun... therefore we would have two suns and it would never get dark...Sophie, Hampshire

Spain is the largest consumer of alcohol free beer, and people there don´t automatically assume you are pregnant just because you are drinking it.Rach, London

Carnoustie is the only place name in the UK to contain all of the vowels! It is also home to the world's largest Rolex. Hazel, Montrose

If you're on a diet, water is best drunk at room temperature. Cold water briefly slows down your metabolism, so you burn calories more slowly; and hot water literally contains calories - due to its heat.Andrew, Glasgow

Ducks will randomly eat acorns voluntarily. Katie, Tring

To Dianne Brown Summit... the phrase "enough blue sky to make a pair of trousers for a cat" is usually " there's enough blue sky to make a sailor a pair of trousers". I first read this in a book called "The Family From One End Street (when I was a kid).Trish, Liverpool

There are 18 posts relating to Giraffes prior to this post!Leonard, Peel, Isle of Man

Hamsters can't blink, they wink each eye!Emma, Portsmouth

By the time you see a star it's not there anymore.Rhi, Cardiff

World of warcraft will destroy your social life!Hayley, Telford

The man that invented Vaseline ate a spoon of it a day.Hannah, Northampton

There are currently around 6,798,000,000 people in the world meaning there is 6,798,000,001 humans heads in the world, because of twins born with one body and 2 heads - both of which control their own side of the body.Marco.Z, St,Albans Herts.

Scotland is the only country in the world where Coca Cola is not the biggest selling soft drink (it's Irn Bru).Chris, Balfron

Greenland has more ice than Iceland. (the country, not the shop your mum goes to).Andy, Par, Cornwall

The word Hello was invented when John Logie Baird was testing his first transmission. Before then it was not used.Gary, Thaxted

As per The Highway Code, always give way to trains.Olly, Crawley

If you put a raisin into a glass of champagne, it will rise and fall repetedly. Except no one has raisins with champagne. :DRomilly, London

If you spit a worm in half it becomes two worms!Tommy, Colchester

A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.Casey, timsbury

The first VCR, made in 1956, was the size of a piano.elle, chester le street

The first coin-operated machine ever designed was a holy-water dispenser that required a five-drachma piece to operate. It was the brainchild of the Greek scientist Hero in the first century AD.elle, chester le street

If hot water is suddenly poured into a glass that glass is more apt to break if it is thick than if it is thin. This is why test tubes are made of thin glass.elle, chester le street

Calcium Gluconate, a substitute used to increase Calcium in humans (patients in hospital), is an antidote to Black Widow Spider bites.Tina, Stree, Somerset

Cheese tastes nicer grated than when it's sliced from the block!Ellie, Barnsley

Ronald Reagan was the studio's first choice to play 'Rick' in Casablanca! Luckily Bogart got the role.ERIC, PETERSFIELD

A giraffe's tongue is black!Davey Mayne, Belfast

Streets in japan have no names.Lisa, South shields

If you hold a pencil between your teeth (not touching your lips) you will find cartoons funnier than if you held the pencil in your lips only.Steve Wilson, Writtle

Frogs can't swallow without blinking.Lisa, South shields

David Lloyd George "The Welsh Legend"was born in Manchester.gary lee haigh, holyhead

Re Cathy,New Cross,London.Mike Nesmith played guitar in the Monkees.It was Micky Dolenz on the drums,miduck.I know,cos I used to be in their fan club.Yes,I AM OLD!!!! Cathie, Wimborne.

Half a 'byte' is a 'nibble'.Lis, Glasgow

A spider's web is like a family crest: you can track a family according to its web design! Rhett , Louth

More than half the world's Silver is melted for use in the Photographic Industry.Clare Lumsden, Aberdeen

Benin is the only country in the world where Voodoo is an official religion.Gabriel, London

You're more likley to be bitten by a human than a rat! Rachel , Porthcawl

In 1996 astronomers pointed the Hubble Telescope at a patch of sky - the size of a grain of sand held at arms length - that they thought was completely empty. After 10 full days of exposure time they found there were over 3,000 galaxies in this 'empty' patch! Each one of these galaxies contained hundreds of billions of stars. Just how big is the Universe?Jeff, Walton-on-Thames

Standing on the beach, looking out to see, the Horizon is 3 miles away. Andy, Long Eaton

The Gull family is the only type of bird that can excrete while mid-flight.Ricki, Lymington

Donkeys have one less lumbar vertebrae than horses.Liz, Broadbottom

You should never clean your windows with a hard-boiled egg.Ben, London

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. (Groucho Marx)Julian, Winchester

Oblivion is a wonderful place to live.John, Leeds

Peacocks are actually black. The colours come from diffraction of light, the rest of the light being absorbed by the black pigmentation. That's why albino peacocks look pure white to us, the white base colour reflects the light brighter than the diffraction from the feather.Deborah, Gravesend

The Kiwi bird, technically, has the shortest beak in the world as they are measured from nostril to tip.Mike Spiller, east malling

The little white tags that attach the price ticket clothes are called Kimbles and they are punched through the cloth without damaging it by a Kimble tagging gun.Karen, Bearsden, Scotland

Aluminium is the most abundant metal on Earth, and the 3rd most abundant element, after Oxygen and Silicon.Ben, Farnborough

The "You Are Here" pointer on a map is called an Idiomarker.Mares, Swindon

If left unchecked, public boards will fill with half-truths, old wives tales and rubbish.ben, cambs

There were no helicopters during the second world war!!Barrie, Durham

Carrots used to be purple, red and yellow, but dutch farmers favoured an orange variety around the 16th and 17th century. I guess they grew the most carrots!Jacqui, bristol

George W. Bush received 8 death threatening letters each day during his administration. Barack Obama recieves 30 of them each day.Bodecious, Amsterdam

More people recognise the golden arches of Mcdonalds than the church cross.Stephen, Southport

The oils in prawn cocktail crisps reacts with the oils in your hair and can cause your hair to fall out if you put them in your hair.Sebastian, Ipswich

Nine people lost their lives during the Wapping newspaper dispute.Nathaniel, London

Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart.Amy, Stirlingshire

A drunken ant will always fall onto its right side.Bryan, Oxford

In 1888 the body of an old laborer was found in a hayloft in Aberdeen,Scoland.He had burned to death but his face showed no signs of pain.The beam on which he was lying was unharmed, and nearby bales of hay had not burned..........Spooky.Jenovefa S

The question should not be why do men leave the loo seat up, it should be why do women leave it down?Charlotte, Ridgeway Nr Sheffield

A fish's stomach Is the same size as its eye. Sibby, Wallasey

the first ever contraceptive was created by the egypitans in 2000 BC, it was crocodile dung!Ben, london

Sardines are baby pilchards! Fact!Rhian , Paignton

When born, a panda is smaller than a mouse and weighs only four ounces or so.Qian Hui, Surrey

Giraffe's tongues are 22 inches long and black with pink dots. Qian Hui, Surrey

French champagne makers tell you to drink it at room temperature not chilled. This is because the bubbles are better and the flavour comes out...Rhiannon

Muay Thai is also known as the "art of 8 limbs".Nicola Smillie, Whitburn

You know guide dogs for the blind?When out walking them, who picks up their poo ?Scott, Burntwood staffs

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

The first computer bug was just that, a moth actually, it flew into the machinery of an early computer causing problems and other errors.Chris, Midlands

André Michelin published the first edition of a guide to France to help drivers maintain their cars, find decent lodging, and eat well while touring. The guide was distributed free from 1900 until 1920. However after a pile of guides was found propping up a workbench in a garage, they saw a free guide would not be taken seriously so they introduced a charge. The guide introduced the star in 1926 to note good cooking; two and three stars were added in the early 1930s.Nicky, chiswick, london

Why is dyslexia so hard to spell?Goughy, St Austell

Your thumb is the same length of your nose (go on, try it!)Kirsten, Aberdeen

Carrots were originally purple.Ana, London

The slogan used by US brewers COORS LIGHT, "turn it loose," translated into Spanish as, "Suffer from diarrhoea".Dan, Leeds

In winter we are approx 3 million miles closer to the sun than in summer.Ryan, Belfast

The word 'bluetooth' came from the Danish king Harald "Bluetooth" Blaatand who unified Denmark and Norway.Matthew, Stafford

You can remain conscious for up to 8 seconds after being decapitated - probably not quite long enough to check your favourite app even if you were able to operate your fingers LOL Philip, Thurso

The reason super glue sticks skin so well is that it was originally developed by the armed forces as an emergency battlefield dressing to use instead of stiches!!!David, Cuffley

Underneath The Grammar School for Girls Wilmington in Kent are the remains of the Rose pub, where Wat Tyler (leader of the English peasants revolt) planned the revolt and led his men from when he stormed London!Charli, Dunstable

Quasimodo's wife used to use a wok to Iron his shirts!dewi, Cardiff

Putting salt on the tip of your tongue while chopping onions will stop you from crying. Try it and see!Eddie Gachegua, London

If your pint has too much head on it and you need to fight through it to get to your beer, rub your finger on your nose and touch the froth. The oil from your nose will dissolve it enough to glug your ale.Stevie, Port Seton

A cockroach can survive for 27 days without its head! Its brain is in its back. mark edwards, Kingston Upon Thames

We all have Gold, nickle and zinc in our toe nails.Suzan, Birmingham

Alexander the Great had a wig made of Lebanese Cedar and he used a jewel encrusted copper chisel to comb his 'hair'.Michael, Hove actually

If you stretched out all the DNA from every cell in your body and laid it end it end, it would measure roughly 12 thousand million miles. That's 2 thousandths of a light-year, or enough to get 0.0005 of the way to the sun's nearest neighbour, Proxima Centauri. If you pooled your DNA with 2000 buddies, it'd stretch all the way! Wonder how far all the DNA from all living things would stretch?Matthew, Swindon

Did you Know about Garlic: The Romans claimed that garlic was used to repel scorpions, treat bladder infections, dog bites, cure leprosy and asthma. It was thought that hanging garlic bulbs on doors would also stop the spread of smallpox.Cindy Mackintosh, london

A chamelon's tongue is twice the length of its body, and it can't roll its eyes. I think your research team needs to amend your USB chamelon ASAP, since its tongue is way too short!Chris, Little Plumstead

Dolphins are the only other animals to Mate facing each other.Francis, Ballymena

You can fit the UK into most states of the USA except for Texas where it fits twice and new york where it would only fit England. John, Suffolk

Swinging the lead (being lazy) comes from an old nautical term. It was the job of a deck hand to test the depth of water with a lead weight on a rope.To save getting frozen cold wet hands, they'd pretend by swinging the lead and lie about the depth.adrian, Pott Row ,Kings Lynn

The temperature of a fart at time of creation is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second. Yes farts are ALWAYS funny ;-)Tim Mantle, Warrington

The shortest unit of time is a 'planck time' and to put that in perspective, a 'planck time' is to a second as a second is to the age of the universe.Peter , Scarborough

Teacher: "Simon can you say your name backwards?" Simon: "No Mis".Sara, Slough

If the coast line of Australia was streched out it would reach around the world.Aidan, Chichester

If you can't remember which side of the car your petrol cap is on the car - look at the dashboard illustration of a petrol pump to see whether the filler is on the left or right side and this will tell you!Irene, Fort William

On January 28, 1984, the day I was born, Michael Jackson's hair caught fire while he was filming a commercial. Gareth

Weasling out of things is important to learn, it's what seperates us from the animals, except the weasel.Jamie, Stafford

There are only 10 types of people. Those that understand binary, and those that don't.TerryG, Dereham

Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hourNicola, Frizington

Fish don't have stomachsAlex, England

A gentleman in search of the quiet life would do well to avoid accidentally switching on his lightsaber umbrella whilst walking through town on a Friday night.Howard, Preston

Pirates (who had both their eyes) wore an eye patch and would switch it when they went below deck so they would become immediately accustomed to the dark!Ant, Sheffield

The weight of insects eaten by spiders every year is greater than the total weight of the entire human population. Phil, Rous Lench

More people are kicked to death by donkeys every year than are killed in plane crashes.Nicholine Hayward, London

Batophobia is actually an abnormal fear of passing high buildings and chiroptophobia is the fear of bats ... go figure!!Andy, Essex

In 1938, Time magazine named Adolf Hitler as their 'Man of the Year'.Michelle, Blackpool

If fish had feet they'd be mice!PP, Maidenhead

Archaeologists have found batteries near Baghdad dating back to 200BC. Reconstructions of these relics proved that they do work and generate around 0.5V.Dave, Manchester

A lion's roar can be heard for up to 5 mileseghosa, london

Human urine cures athlete's foot.Mark, Purfleet

A spider's webbing is strong enough to stop a plane- it is stronger than steel!eghosa, london

Ra is the abbrevation of radius in maths, and also the name of the egyptian sun god.eghosa, london

Everywhere is within walking distance, if you have the time!Joel, Essex

If you could only eat one thing for the rest of your life, the only food that would keep you alive is the potato.Big Rob, Rothwell

If it wasn't for Mondays you would hate Tuesdays.John, Notts

Elizabethan women drank the urine of puppy dogs to improve their complexions Dan, Leeds

To get your pornstar name take the name of the first road you lived on, and your mother's maiden name (in that order). I'm Bruce PittmanNick

The word " Loo " for the water closet came from the British visiting France in the old days. When the French lady's would empty their night pots out of their windows, they would shout out "Attention l'eau !" (Watch out water) and the British would hear "Loo" not knowing "L'eau" but just saw liquid coming down.Pierre, La Tour de Peilz

If bill gates put all his money into dollar bills and put them under his mattress, if he fell out of bed he would take over 40mins to hit the floor!!Jon, Worthing

All domestic dogs are thought to have originated from one pack of wolvesSam, Windsor

Squirrels swim on their back to keep their nuts dry. connull, calgary,canada

It's been scientifically proven that the people who play their MP3 players out loud on buses and trains are the lowest form of life on the planet.John, Worksop

Beetles taste like apples, wasps taste like pine nuts and worms taste like fried bacon. And yes I've tasted them all, not!!Kieran, Darlington

Sorry Alexa G, there are rhymes for three of your non-rhyming words - the only one which doesn't have a recognised rhyme is month. Silver rhymes with Chilver, Purple rhymes with Hirple or Curple and Orange rhymes with Gorringe or Blorenge. All real words apparently!Phil, Dartford

The phrase 'sides reversed is' is a great way of making sensible palindromic sentences. For example take the words 'live' and evil. The palindromic sentence is 'live sides reversed is evil'.Bringidon, Newcastle

Tony...Amy is not wrong with regards to the origins of the name "Wendy" and I believe that there are two beliefs. They have both been argued for many years. Consider yourself corrected. Camilla, London

A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and female horse. You cannot mate 2 mules for a baby mule as male mules and most female mules are infertile!Sha-En, Singapore

On the London Underground there is only one tube station name which does not have any letters of the word "mackerel" in it - St John's Wood.Richard, Barking

The words IWOOT and Iphone can be combined to make the anagram "Hope I win too!" Jeanie , Hutton, Brentwood

The copper horse at the end of the Long Walk at Windsor Castle doesn't have any stirrups!Janis, Loudwater

Bette Nesmith Graham was the inventor of liquid paper. She was also the mum of Monkees drummer and country star, Mike Nesmith.Cathy, New Cross,London

So many visitors were taking his cigars, so Thomas Edison devised a plan to discourage the practice. He had several boxes of cigars custom-made with cabbage leaves. But when the offensive smelling stogies were delivered to his office, his secretary sent them on to his home where his wife went ahead and packed the items in his luggage, and the offensive items accompanied Mr. Edison on his business trip. This just goes to show you that even a genius can't outsmart his wife.liam, middlesbrough

The average male produces enough sperm, in his (or her!?!) lifetime to fill the boot of a rover metro car!Lord Milton Stilton, London

All telephone numbers in movies have or begin with the numbers 555.Michelle, London

Science-Fiction is made up of 85% fiction and 15% scienceMark, Chatham

A collector of beer mats is a "Tegestologist"colin, Newcastle ,Staffordshire

You have a 0.002% chance of being a photic sneezer and have an extranumerary nipple. Oyvind, Inverness

In England it is still legal for pregnant women to wee in a policemans hat if desperate for the toilet when there is not one in sight...Lucy

Msot pleope wlil sltil be albe to udenrsantd tihs eevn touhgh ist taotl rbubsihJay, England

If you hit yourself on the back of your head hard enough a teaspoon will come out of your forehead.Chris, Colne

Modem stands for Modulate- Demodulate.John, Hartlepool

I once paid £4000 to attend a reincarnation seminar. Well let's face it, you only live once!Nashie, Leigh on Sea

The Fear Of Phobias Is Called Phobophobia, that's ironic.Stephen, Colchester

Two thirds of the World don't know what the other half are doingNashie, Leigh on Sea

B, Ireland. Glass is not a liquid, it was the way it was made then. If it were liquid all of the old glass panes would have fallen out by now. Also ancient glass beads are still spherical or in their original shape.Audio Angel, Newcastle

If all the space were extracted from between all the atoms and elementary particles in the universe, the resultant matter would fit into no space at all. You'd have a black hole. Al, Ickleford

If you fry termites in butter, they taste like peanut butter.Heather, Oke, Devon

It's said that there are three moments in television history big enough that the average American remembers where they were when they watched it; The assasination of JFK, the moon landing and when Michael Jackson performed at Motown 25.Kim, Aalborg, Denmark

Chocolate tastes better when you let it melt in your mouth.Mitch , Leicestershire

If the first cigarette of the day makes you dizzy, start with the second!Frank, Yatradgynlais

The word 'plumber' comes from the Latin ford for lead, 'Plumbum', and comes from when lead pipes were used instead of copper in our water supply.Alex, Sunderland

Multi-tasking doesn't exist, the brain prioritises tasks and we switch from one to the other, and then go back. Our brain doesn't have the capability to do multible things at once.Andrew, Darlington

The Amazon rainforest produces 50% of the Earth's oxygen.Sam, Basingstoke

There are only two landlocked countries surrounded entirely by landlocked countries (doubly landlocked countries): Liechtenstein and UzbekistanRichard, London

According to the song, Joseph's Technicolour Dream Coat has only 29 colours! if you want me to name them, just ask. And how do I know this? I am a dance and drama teacher and have had to teach the song to kids at least 4 times now! Emily, Bingley

You should never bend down to tie your laces in a revolving door!Tom, Whitwick

Earwigs have two penises! Both are larger than it's body and if it needs the second one just in case one of them snaps offHelen, Warlingham

An Idiot and a Genius both lack the same thing, 'common sense', which when you think about explains why they both capable of some very stupid things.JR, Wallasey

The name Wendy was created for the film Peter Pan.Amy, Sutton

Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.Steve, NZ

If everyone in the world was the size of a grain of salt the entire human race would fit in a tuna canStaci, Sudbury

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest Polish population in the world.Daniel, tonypandy

Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head." Daniel, tonypandy

Barbie's measurements if she were life size: 39-23-33. Daniel, tonypandy

In New York City, approximately 1,600 people are bitten by other humans every year.Daniel, tonypandy

When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.Daniel, tonypandy

Did you know that a towel gets wetter the more it dries. Figure that!Clive, Thatcham

Tapirs have no eyelidsSarah, London

Plutonium was the first man-made element. It's atomic weight was first determined in 1942 at the University of Chicago. Qian Hui, Surrey

Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up Scotty"Adam

The saying 'freeze the balls off a brass monkey' comes for the old war ships that when in extreme cold the brass plates that held the canon balls would contract throwing the balls alll over the place these plates were called monkeys. phil, worcester

Did you know that Hiltler invented methadone? Also that it is very hard not to wiggle your bottom when you brush your teeth? And that things are always in the last place you look because thats where you find them? Vikki, a land far far away

Woman who boils beans and peas in same pot is not sanitary (Confucius)alex, borders

Time flies like an arrow, Fruit flies like a banana...Chris Chenery, Crystal Palace

Keep it under your hat - English longbow men kept a spare bow string under their hats.thomas, leytonstone e11

Knowledge is knowing that a Tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.Kim, Gillingham

There are the about the same number of water molecules in a teaspoon of water as there teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.Jules, Tonbridge

If you cut the legs off a grasshopper it can't jump!Peter, Preston Lanc's

Pigs don't fly, no matter how much gunpowder you put in the canon.Clone6291, The great circle, grand council palace, saturn

Our finger and toenails take six months to grow from base to tip. Qian Hui, Surrey

Sotheby's auction house sold a piece of moon rock for $442,000 in 1996. Qian Hui, Surrey

Somebody below me said that 1% of the people on the world have an IQ on 135 or more. well I have an IQ of 137, and I'm only 13 years old.Mollie, cumbria!

Never Eat Yellow Snow.alex, Borders

the fear of becoming bald/being around bald people is Peladophobia. chelsea campanella, parker,colorado

an ant can survive for two weeks under watercathy, merstham surrey

Despite the many stories, only one alligator has ever been found in the sewer system of New York City - a 125 pound (57 kilogram) alligator was captured by four boys in 1935. Qian Hui, Surrey

The body of a jellyfish is 95 percent water! Qian Hui, Surrey

Do they use bacon bandages for swine flu?Caroline, London

It has always been thought that the only cells that did information processing in the brain were neurons, and that all the other cells simply sat around feeding / taking excretia away from neurons. Not so, it turns out that these interesting little blighters too get involved in what you're thinking and doing. Yeay.Caroline , Farrington Gurney

The sparrow that flies high can never build a dam like a beaver. (Ancient Indian proverb)Geoff, Newcastle

Rizla+ cigarette papers were originally made of rice paper by a Frenchman called La CroisLynn, Billericay

Sorry CJH - spiral staircases were made both anticlockwise and clockwise (eg. wolvern castle)Dan, london

The letter b is typed with the right hand - I learned to type touch type 20 years ago and I am definitely right. I also know how to spell definitely so I must be right!!!Suzanne, Cambridge

"Did you know? A shark will only attack you if you're wet?! Jez taylor, Southwold" Sorry Jez, but you can. If you're Samuel L. Jackson. Michael, Belfast

Children who spend too many hours playing fantasy games online, show the same addiction signs as gamblersRebecca, Dundee

The 'fact' by CJH in the e-mail sent on the 16th Sept is incorrect. Staircases are clockwise for the reason stated, not anti-clockwise. I know this because last week I climbed all 275 very narrow steps of the Tower at York Minster!Neil, Weybridge

Clock watching definitely does NOT help Wednesday 16th September 2009 pass more quickly..Jon, Warlingham

the fear of long words is: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.ironic rite?chelsea, parker,colorado

You can now get Bacon Bandages, Bacon Wallets, Bacon Flavour Toothpicks and Floss, Bacon Bubble Gum... and of course Bacon.Anastasia, Begbroke

The only thing which i know is that up until now we use more than 30000 short words in our daily online chatting and after few years oxford will be publishing a dictionary named "Chatting words " :P Muhammad, karachi

the bible is the most shoplifted book in the worldgery, caventry

Have you ever seen a Gerkin that hasn't been pickled?Robert, South Ealing.

The double bass is in fact the weirdest of the string instruments - it's shoulder slope, the strings are each a perfect 4th instead of a perfect 5th apart, it is more common to find it with 5 strings than any other classical 4 string instrument, it does not play in a string quartet, it does however, play in a symphonic wind band and many jazz ensembles.Samuel, Stoke On Trent

The Turkish Van is a breed of cat that can--and likes to--swim in water. It has no undercoat, therefore its fur dries quickly.Naim, Tirana

Everything is good with vinegar.Barnabas Penor, Mexico City, Mexico

Did you know that cordless tools only stop working when your using them?Richard

The flesh of a banana can be split equally into 3 segmentsBev, Manchester

Graham, Cottingham: "Quote "The sky is not blue, it is black. It only appears blue when sunlight shines through the atmosphere. Rob S" This is inaccurate, the sky is only black in absence of light the same way that everything is black in absence of light. The sky is actually blue, thanks largely to the high levels of Nitrogen gas and Oxygen gas, both of which (Oxygen being darker, but less abundant in the atmosphere) are a blue colour, noticable only in the liquid form usually." I would like to point out that light is made up of a spectrum of colours (visible when we see a rainbow in the sky). Different things absorb different colours from the light, the colours reflected from the light are the colours we percieve objects to be (when in fact it is more true that this is the colour they are not), this is why when there is no light everything is black, all light is absorbed (as you said). The sky in fact appears blue as blue has the shortest wavelength, when the spectrum of light enters the earth's atmosphere the gasses scatter the colours towards us, reds and oranges have a longer wavelength and pass straight through, whereas the shorter wavelength of the blue light is scattered much more, meaning that anywhere we look in the sky we have some of this blue being scattered in our direction. At sunset, the sunlight is nearly at a tangent to the earth's surface and therefore has a longer path, so by the time it reaches us much of the blue has been scattered away leaving the longer wavelengths of reds and oranges.Natalie, London

Students studying law cannot/will not listen!Rose, Bedford (bedfordshire)

The practice of eating insects is called entomophagy Most insects are edible. According to eatbug.com, there are 1,462 recorded species of edible insects. And they're quite nutritious. For instance, 100 grams of cricket contains only 121 calories, less than half of beef. A cricket contains only 5,5 grams of fat, compared to 21,2g of beef. Beef contains more protein (23,5g - a cricket 12.9g) but the 100g of cricket also contains 5,1g of carbohydrates, 75,8 mg calcium, 185,3 mg phosphorous, 9,5 mg iron, thiamin, riboflavin, and niacinRachel, Swanscombe

The device at the intersection of two railroad tracks to permit the wheels and flanges on one track to cross or branch for the other is called a frog.Rachel, Swanscombe

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. - H. L. MenckenRachel, Swanscombe

In 1994, Chicago artist Dwight Kalb sent David Letterman a statue of Madonna, made of 180lb of ham.Rachel, Swanscombe

Scrimages are deliciousOwen, Australia

All Continents begin and end with the same letter. Europe, America, Africa etc.James, Glastonbury, UK (yes, where they have the festival!)

This newsletter contains more made up stories, urban myths or just mistakes than any other in the history of newsletters! Oh but you probably knew that already.MrTinkles, Eastbourne

pigs have curly willys, and cats have barbed willysemma, surrey

You are only as good as other people think you are. You are only as bad as other people think you are. You are only as popular as other people think you are. You are only as wanted as other people think you are. (Unless the law enforcment agencies are involved) Jeff, Eastbourne

The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means only left-handed people are in their right mind.Jeff, Eastbourne

The small bits of plastic at the end of your shoelaces are called 'aglets'. This comes from the French and Latin words for 'needle'.Louise, Lancaster

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Lucinda, Cirencester

The wing tip lights of a boeing aircraft flash once at a time, the wing tip lights on an airbus aircraft flash twice at a time...and before any of you decide to moan that its not true, as seems popular, I am currently sat at the edge of the runway watching them land and do so on a regular basis. trust me. I'm right.Sarah Peirce, Derby

US President Harry S Truman did not have a middle name until he was elected President. He then decided that a president should have a middle name so he added the initial "S" which stands for nothing. (and in my opinion was an odd choice due to a tendency to sound like "Harry Ass" when spoken quickly)kiera , nashville, TN USA

Alien abductees always describe their captors as having large heads and black, shiny eyes. Experts believe that these people were, in fact, abducted by pandas - but were just too embarassed to say so.Steve, Cambridge

You can burn off 3000 calories by continuously banging your head against a wall for 10 and a half hours.Louise, Lancaster

A pint of hippopotamus milk contains 3000 calories. Louise, Lancaster

Did you know that Mexico city sinks about 10 inches a year?Erin Davie, Aberdeenshire

To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have to sit still for 8 hours!Brad

dwarf tossing was only outlawed in USA in 1983. It took till till 2003 to be proposed to be banned in Canada. It was deniedChris, london

more people live in London than in Australiachris, london

The only letters that aren't used in the Periodic Table are Q and J.Jen, Merseyside

pixies song "where is my mind?" was played on mars.jimmy, derry city

In Australia it was legal up to 1962 to shoot an Aborigini for sport (barbaric!)Michael, Colchester

28% of all Spanish men are not waterproof. As a result of this disadvantage Spain has never won an Olympic swimming medal (apart from any they have won).Chris, Chepstow

the letter b is typed using the left hand. i learnt to touch type on a manual typewriter over 35 yrs ago and it is DEFINATELY the left handpauline, london

coffee increases in volume during roasting by 18.6% Chris Turner, blackpool

At 30 mph in the wet, a driveway is not a safe stopping distance to avoid hitting a fence......or next doors greenhouse! ooopsPhil, Romford

Adam, Portsmouth: is it longer than pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?Rachel, Faversham

I'm sorry Adam from Portsmouth but you'll find the longest made up word in the English language is the plural of bdkjhfdskajhfeukwhfiuekwhfuiheuhhhtrerditrateismitation and in fact bdkjhfdskajhfeukwhfiuekwhfuiheuhhhtrerditrateismitationsPaul Wileman, Orton on the hill

The gas that is expelled from a scotch egg when you bite into it does not occur naturally anywhere on earth.AERRIS, Cambridge

It is foolish to tear out one's hair in grief as if sadness would somehow be lessened by baldness.Milessa, Darnassus

Humans actually have four nostrils, two outer ones, and two 'inner' ones - a pair of tiny vomeronasal ducts near the bottom of the cartillage dividing your nose.Izzy C, Oxfordshire

if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got,steve , yeovil

no place in the uk is more than 75miles from the sea!Deane , llandovery wales

bdkjhfdskajhfeukwhfiuekwhfuiheuhhhtrerditrateismitation is the longest made up word in the English language Adam, portsmouth

Quote "On dice whatever side you look at the opposite facing side will always add up to 6 e.g. 1+5 = 6 :) steve H Close but no cigar, they add up to 7, the opposing sides being 1 and 6, 2 and 5 and 3 and 4, all adding up to 7 for each pair of opposing sides.Graham, Cottingham

Quote "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" This is inaccurate, the sky is only black in absence of light the same way that everything is black in absence of light. The sky is actually blue, thanks largely to the high levels of Nitrogen gas and Oxygen gas, both of which (Oxygen being darker, but less abundant in the atmosphere) are a blue colour, noticable only in the liquid form usually.Graham, Cottingham

Sorry Ani ... dermatoglyphics (the study of fingerprints) is also 15 letters and they are the longest words without repeating.Simon, London

Neil, Southhampton states that this is not his real name. It's also not my real name. I wonder if we are related.Geoff , Queensbury

Did you know: I spent over 3 hours reading this entire page, and my eyes hurt.Yaz, London

Due to genetic mutations the DNA in your right hand is slightly different to the DNA in your left handChris, Nottingham

The villages of Mellon Charles and Mellon Udrigle sound as though they should be somewhere in the depths of rural Gloucestershire. They're not: believe it or not, they're both on the West Coast of Scotland, about halfway between Skye and Cape Wrath! As a point of interest, can anyone come up with any reason as to WHY such rural English names appear in the Scottish Highlands? Davie, Onich, Lochaber

Gravity doesn't in fact exist...the earth just sucks..Ben, Sutton

For Andy of Eastbourne, The Mongols used silk next to their skin as the "bullet [arrow] proof vest of their day." The Occidentals they attacked thought the Mongols were some sort ghost / superior race. When an arrow met its mark the Mongols were often able to easily withdraw the arrow and this occurred on various instances without [apparent] blood loss as the silk plugged the hole. Hence unlike bullet proof armour the silk was often self sealing...chris h, brissy

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is "uncopyrightable"!ani, london

Cats believe it's rude to stare; polite cats squeeze their eyes closed and glance away as a friendly greeting. This is why people who dislike cats (and so don't look at them) are more likely to be approached by a cat- they're not staring rudely. Try the eye-closing thing on a cat; it will usually respond in kind.Anna, Cambridge

The centre chapter of the Bible is Psalm 118. There are 594 chapters before that and 594 chapters after it. Add up these two numbers = 1188 and the centre verse of the Bible is Psalm 118 verse 8. How amazing is that and worth a read!carolyn, Northop

An Ostrich's eye is bigger then its brain! Gareth, Conwy

I would like to know where Steve from Bardfield heard the saying "If there is enough blue in the sky to make the cat a pair of trousers, it won't rain." My grandmother always said that, but I also thought it came from a book that I read when I was a small child...does anyone know?Dianne, Brown Summit

Most household appliances 'hum' in flat keys - vacuums, washing machines etc.carolyn, Northop

keith moon and mama cass not alone both died in the same apartment but actually died in the same bed 4 years apart, moon in 1978, cass in 1974, the apartment was owned their mutual friend harry nillsonmike , kerry, ireland

An Albatross can sleep while flying.Casandra, Wrexham

is saabbookkeeper the only word in the english language with 5 consecutive double letters?( or is it the Swedish language!)bob, worcs

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.Sean, Ireland

You only need 3.14 metres of slack in a rope around the surface of the Earth to raise the rope half a metre off the ground all the way around the globe.Ben, London

Buzz Aldrin was the first man to wee on the moon! If you watch the video of Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon Buzz stops on the second step for a little moment :)George, Sheffield

Did you know England is a limited company! Riaz Vali, Bolton

That sticky out brown lumpy bit half way up a horse's leg is called the chestnut. It's all that remains of the fifth toe.Jill, Manchester

according to the books james bond wore a Rolex not an Omega. However when Pierce Brosnan played James Bond he was already contracted to wear Omega and was not allowed to be seen wearing any thing else.john, worksop

Re: PAUL, barry- did you know humans and koalas both have fingerprints and its impossible to tell them apart! I can tell them apart, Koalas climb trees and sleep for 18-19 hours per day...few humans do!! Mike, Portpatrick

Re: Ivor Biggun, Lowestoft - Did you know that if you squeeze an ant it will sing the Spanish national anthem...Big bluff..There hasn't been any words to Spains National Anthem since 1978. Apart from that all the ones I squeeze just say "Ouch!" Mike, Portpatrick

Ludwig van Beethoven when preparing his coffee is said to have insisted on precisely 60 coffee beans were used per each cup he consumed and always counted the beans himself Oxana, London

We are what we accept.ann, Waikanae, New Zealand

Colsy, I'm afraid you're wrong on not being able to lick your elbow, my friend can do it, so either he has really short arms or a super long tongue (: He put ink on his tongue before, licked his elbow and hey presto, he had a nice navy blue elbow (:Ffion, Anglesey

In starbucks, (or any other overpriced coffee shop in fact) the size of the drinks tall, grande and venti all mean large with the exception of venti which is Italian for 20, as in 20ounces of coffee.Paul M, Belfast, Norn Iron

David, Glasgow: Light actually has the same speed in all media. The apparent change of speed is caused by light bouncing off atoms in more dense media and, hence, taking a longer path. Imagine light "zig-zagging" from wall to wall in a glass block rather than going in a straight line.Tom, Gloucester

RE: Lauren, Atherton - This is because the Regular Coke has sooooo much sugar in it! FACT. Sorry not true, the reason Diet Coke floats and regualr coke sinks is because Diet Coke uses artificial sweeteners such as Saccharin, which is less dense than water, whereas regular coke has sugar as it's sweetener, which is more dense, hence it sinks!!!Adam, Abingdon

Henry's partly right about the UK driving on the left. When knights used to pass each other, they did so sword arm to sword arm, just in case, ie right arm to right arm, or to the left of each other. Jimbly, Bedford

Seven fifths of all people do not understand fractions.Colin, Michigan

Is Stephen sure about the new origami channel on Sky? I heard it'd folded.Dr Vic, Carrickfergus

Contrary to everyone saying that at 04:05:06 on the 7th of the 8th month 2009, would be "4,5,6,7,8,9 day." It was ACTUALLY "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 day" at 12:34:56 on the 7th of August 2009.Ninx, London

A Monkey is funnier than a bear. Funiness = Monkey > Bear.Kevin, Darlington.

If there's enough blue in the sky to make a cat a pair of trousers it won't rainSteve, Great Bardfield

You can deter flies from your outdoor eating area by hanging up clear plastic bags (like a sandwich bag) filled with water. Apparently, the reflections look like predators to the pesky flies. Hurrah!Shelley, Clevedon

Only 43% of people believe most statistics are bulls%@t.Lucas Fenix, Birmingham

Adam Clarke(Glasgow)Designed the first bridge between the towns Obuda and Pest now its called Budapest.James , Newton Mearns Glasgow.

A BUTTERFLY HAS 12,000 EYESRACHEL D

The common goldfish is the ONLY animal that can see the whole colour spectrum. from ultra violet through to infra red. But, perhaps more pressingly... WHY?Bill, Dagenham, Essex

When he was 10 years old, Einstien's teacher once told him 'You will never amount to much'...AM, Leicester

People think Robinson is going bald, this is not true, in fact it's just his forehead growing therefore giving the appearance of baldingPaul, Orton on the hill

Maybe Chrissy, Burntwood, used her left thumb to type the 'b' of devertebrated. I, another touch typist, use the index finger of my right hand. Try typing other words with the letter 'b' in.Christine, Birkenhead

Did you know that if you squeeze an ant it will sing the Spanish national anthem.Ivor Biggun, Lowestoft

According to Petey R it is not true about Mikey J being a ferret in disguise, he is infact duckzilla the water hating duckPaul, Orton on the hill

Cats have three eyelids on each eye. The third eyelid is a milky-white colour, and mainly appears when the cat is sick. You can however, get a glimpse of it as the cat open its eyes.Izzy C, Oxfordshire

the most efficient machine for turning food into poo, is the human baby. i have just discovered a more efficient machine, a military chef.Slinky, Bielefeld

Mikey J is actually a ferret in disguisePaul, Orton on the hill

Butterflies can taste through their feet.Fraser, Carluke, Lanarkshire

Did you know that if you shake bacon it cries? Even if you don't shake it, once you put it in the frying pan you will soon see those porky tears half fill your pan!Adam, Kessingland, Suffolk

Chrissy, Burntwood. Ooh!! I too was taught to touch-type properly but maybe, I'll admit, a longer time ago than you and on a real typewriter. As a special treat, occasionally we had to type the alphabet to a beat on a record! It was definitely the right hand - it's imprinted on my brain forever!Joy, Horbury

If you think you can or you think you can't you're right. ps you can whistle and eat jelly Phil G. It just gets really reallt messy!Janet, Verwood

98% of things on here are wrongrab, monkeytown

"Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension :) Karl H" nope any liquid in space will boil to gas then freeze due to lack of atmospheric pressure.rab, monkeytown

Sorry Amy, the name Wendy is recoded in the USA in 1828. It can also be found in the English Census of 1881 as a boy's name. It was often used as acontraction for the Welsh "Gwendolyn". Popularised by the Childrens' play "Peter Pan"Tony, Mazarron, Spain

Sorry Joy, Horbury but Matt, London is correct. You do type the letter B with your left hand. Also the beasts number is 666 not 616. The number 6 symbolises imperfection or something abnormal/monstrous and the fact that it's written 3 times is for emphasis or intensity.Sharon, Swindon

6 out of 7 dwarves aren't Happy...Jo , Bristol

Do you know there is only one team in the Scottish football league with the letter J in its name.James , Newton Mearns Glasgow.

Silly Putty was discovered by someone manufacturing polymers for the army, not from latex condom residues.a, london

the titanic crashed on its second voyage its madien being from the shipyard where it was built to the dock it departedfromon its doomed voyagebenjamin, bedford

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!Russ, York

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.Susan, Denny

Re: Stephen Barber, Barnsley - 04:05:06 07-08-09 will next happen in 2109 not 3009. Sorry!!Jan, Northampton

The largest thing a Blue Whale can swallow is roughly the size of a grapefruit. Oh and sharks CAN get cancer, contrary to popular belief.Milly, Aldridge

Did you know that if you put a can of Diet Coke & a can of Regular Coke in a bucket of water the Diet Coke will float whilst the Regular Coke will sink! This is because the Regular Coke has sooooo much sugar in it! FACT.Lauren, Atherton

The word, "umbrella," means little shade. UMBRA > Latin = shade -ULA > Latin = diminutive indicator [form-ula]Linda, Phoenix, AZ USA

Joy Harbury - re@ 'stewardesses' v 'devertebrated' - the letter b is not typed with the right hand. Certainly not for those of us who were taught touch-typing at college.chrissy, burntwood

Ferrets can't digest vegetables. This is because they are carnivores like cats, not omnivores like dogs.Patricia, Beccles, Suffolk

The reason england drives on the left side of the road, is that when jousting, generally people would be able to strike better if your opponent was on your right hand side, and we have carryed that on to this day.Henry, Hunmanby

Termites produce more methane than cows. (Not one termite more than one cow, its all the termites produce more than all the cows). Henry, Hunmanby

All inanimate objects are, by nature, hostile.Flissy, Harlow

did you know humans and koalas both have fingerprints and its impossible to tell them apart!PAUL, barry

Bubble wrap is a very cheap version of therapy! It calms you down - and sends everone else mad! It also keeps your feet warm when worn inside wellingtons in the snow! Jude, Bampton

You can not lick your own elbow .... give it a try !colsy, glasgow

did you know that if you use boiled water for your ice cubes, they come out transparent when frozen?james, blantyre

They said nothing rhymes with Purple, Hurple is a real word. Piers , henley

the first bulletproof vests were actually invented by Casimir Zeglen (male) of Chicago in 1893 from silk. (sorry Faye)andy, eastbourne

Since the Earth is not a perfect sphere, the pull of gravily varies slightly at different points on its surface. A person who weighs 150lbs at the equator would weigh 151lbs at the North PoleNick L, Rugby

Napoleon was born with teeth.Mark, Bielefeld, Germany

Further to Hilary's quote that "Bookkeeper is the only word in the english language with three consecutive double letters." Subbookkeeper - is the only word in the English language with four consecutive double letters.Phil, Dartford

If aliens are sooooo advanced and they come to study us in secret why do the always put their headlights on when they arrive ,so we can see them doh!Charlie, Leslie,Fife

Spaghetti CAN be broken in half, by twisting the ends whilst snapping it.Mark, Darlington

There are more ways of playing a game of chess than there are stars in the universeArthur, Worksop

Florence Nightingale invented the pie chart.Christine, Birkenhead

Ants are tone deaf.Adam, Lowestoft

In old buildings spiral staircases always go up clockwise. This is because all knights were right handed (left handedness used to be a sign of satan so you'd never get a left handed knight), so the defending army would be upstairs and as they came down to fight their sword wielding arm would be in the free space of the staircase. However, the attacking army coming up would have their sword arm tucked in close to the centre of the spiral staircase and therefore would not be able to freely wield their sword. Also, dolphins do not all have little legs tucked up under their stomach, occasionally dolphins and whales are found with additional limb like growths which adds weight to the argument for sea living mammals once living on land.Sarah, Hampshire

Water will melt again when cooled under -180 degrees celcius, however this only happens when the body of water consists of 48 atoms. Daniel, Northwich

Matt, London - the letter "b" is typed with the right hand so Stewardesses wins! Love these comments almost as much as the products.Joy, Horbury

Did you know? A shark will only attack you if you're wet?!Jez taylor, Southwold

Every year there are 8 Tea Cosy related deaths.Jonny, Newcastle

While in some countries the penalty for driving while intoxicated can be death (yes, death), in Uruguay intoxication is a legal excuse for having an accident while driving. "Please believe me officer, I really was drunk."Ethan, kings lynn

Bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers were all invented by women. Faye, Eastbourne

This is not my real nameNeil, Southampton

THE HEARING IS THE FIRST SENSE TO BE DEVELOPED BY A HUMAN WHILE IN A MOTHER'S WOMB.Frank, Beckenham

Sorry Graham of Bolton but Percy Shaw was inspired to make catseyes after seeing car lights reflecting on road signs. He patented his Maltese cross-shaped road studs and trademarked the name Catseye. He formed the Reflecting Roadstuds Ltd to manufacture the new Catseye road studs, however, sales were sluggish until the Ministry of Transport mandated Catseyes for British roads.Jenny, Wigan

A crocodile's brain is equal to half the size of it's biggest tooth!Ann, South Shields

AT 5 MINUTES AND 6 SECONDS AFTER 4 A.M.,  ON THE 7TH OF AUGUST, THIS YEAR, THE TIME  AND DATE WILL BE:  04:05:06 07-08-09 THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN UNTIL THE YEAR  3009!!Stephen Barber, BARNSLEY

Seagulls, chickens, and all birds alike CAN actually pass gas. The reason they don't is because their stomachs do not contain the specific enzyme that humans do that produces gas. Birds CAN pass gas, they just don't NEED to.Brian, Minnesota, USA

We've all walked upstairs & forgotten what we wanted up there - but as you get older you don't know if you were upstairs coming down or downstairs going up. True Frank, woking

For those who keep posting about nothing rhyming with silver... check chilver (ewe lamb)... god bless QISam, Coventry

time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.Emma, Burnley

If all the people in China were to hold hands around the world, over half of them would drownRoss, Bookham, Surrey

Did you know.. my fuel gage went a bit rubbish a few weeks back and for that amount of time i've had no idea how much fuel is in my car... a few minutes ago i broke down in the fast lane of the M5 and now i'm sat on the hard shoulder waiting for my mom and gallon of petrol to turn up... =]Faerie, Southampton

Actually, 'Stewardesses' isn't the longest word typed with you left hand - 'devertebrated ' is.Matt, London

Did You Know... that "Bedroom" is an anagram of "Boredom".... Ah... The English Language never ceases to amaze... :-S!Tasha, Warrington

To all those who say that nothing rymes with orange. I climbed the Blorange whilst eating an orange. Blorange being a mountain in Wales.ken, prenton

'Twyndyllyngs' in the longest word in the English language with no true vowells. It is the plural of the archaic English word 'twyndyllyng' meaning 'twinling' or 'twin'.James L, Newport

If you want to check an urban legend - try www.snopes.com. To check on the origin of a phrase try www.phrases.org.uk. Both great time wasters!Karl, Farnborough

There are more molecules in a glass of water than there are grains of sand in the sahara desert.Dwayne, San Diego

Amanda-marie from Cardiff holds the world record for bunking off punctuation and grammar classes at school. david, Poole

The 'fact' that the "average person consumes 8 spiders in a lifetime" while they sleep, etc is fiction. A woman was researching how quickly word spread on the internet (with nothing to validate the claim) before it became "common knowledge". This lady chose to publish an article online saying that the average person consumes 8 spiders in a lifetime while sleeping, as more and more people spoke about it more and more people accepted it as common knowledge , when it is actually nonsense.Craig McA, Aberdeenshire

Amanda-Marie from Cardiff doesn't know the difference between 'their' and 'there'. Three times the wrong one was used in the same sentence. So their!Daniel Weisberg, Birmingham

Mel Blanc (the voice of bugs bunny) was allergic to carrots!!Dan, Brighton

Annoyingly, thanks to Harold Wilson, British economists are quoting the American Billion now ie a thousand million. A billion is from a French Mathematician using Latin prefixes and is by definition a million million. Likewise a trillion is a million million million.David, St Ives

I got married for the third time on May 22nd 2009 and went to Madeira for our honeymoon and had a fanastic timeBrian Keating, Cranleigh

"After Eights" are semi-digested before you put them in your mouth. They start life as a slim wafer of minty sugar but, thanks to the inclusion of a digestive enzyme in the mixture, after several weeks of contolled storage, the sugar has been worked upon to produce a delicious goo. Yum!janet, dalton-in-furness

The youngest person to get given a full set of dentures in the UK was a boy age 3 years and 301 days !!!Lorna, Belfast

There are more people living in London than the whole of Scotland.Alison, Dundee

The platypus and the Echidna (Spiny Anteater) are the only living examples of egg-laying mammals.Emilie, Bromsgrove

Polar bear's don't cover their noses but they all are left handed and if you could get close enough to one to shave off it's fur you would see that their skin underneath is black.Sarah, Chester

When you find something in the last place you look it's for a reason. It's because you've stopped looking.Chris Turner, Blackpool

Hamsters are not nocturnal as is commonly thought; they are crepuscular. If an animal is crepuscular it means it's awake at dawn and dusk. Kelly, Sunderland

'Screeched' is the longest one-syllable word in the English language.Rachel, Faversham

did you know that 30% of women in america carry a brick in there handbags so they have less risk of a robber running away with there bags because the woman can hit them with the brick in there bag.amanda-marie, cardiff

Your nearly right about Humpty Dumpty, it wasn't a castle, it was St. Mary's at the Wall in Colchester, Essex. One the other hand, other reports refer to Humpty Dumpty as being the gunner, known as 'One-Eyed Jack Thompson' who was in charge of the great cannon. Thompson was a battle-hardened soldier, who had fought in many skirmishes. He may have lost vision in one eye but he was still an excellent shot.Drummer, Up t'north

the town of Chesterfield in Derbyshire was the 1st town in England to have full electric street lighting,we fell out with the gas board over a bill! shaun, chesterfield

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes or shark attacks. So Watch your Ass!!! MissD , Milton Keynes

The King of Hearts is the only king without a moustache!MissD , Milton Keynes

'Dreamt' is the only english word that ends in the letters 'mt' MissD , Milton Keynes

'Stewardesses' is the longest word typed only with your left hand, 'Lollipop' is the longest word typed only with your right hand and 'Typewriter' is the longest word typed only using the top row of letters on a keyboard! MissD , Milton Keynes

Babies cannot grow teeth until the "soft spot" on their head is closedDi, NOTTINGHAM

There are more English speakers in China than there are in the USA!Matt, Newcastle

The best way to avoid being attacked by a shark, is to sit under a treeMark, Market Rasen

Staying awake for seventeen hours decreases your mental performance the same as a blood alcohol level of 0.05%. A nap may be a good idea.Qian Hui, Surrey

One man in eight snores while sleeping, and one in ten grinds his teeth.Qian Hui, Surrey

There are more people living in India than in all the African countries combined.Tim, London

There's allot of wrong facts in this list! NJS, Bromley - Your 'statues of mounted warriors' fact is a myth Alana Paterson, Aberdeen - No Polar bear has EVER been recorded or seen covering its nose when hunting. Diana V - The Earth's population has already exceeded 7 Billion! kim B - '96%' was a made up figure by a US paper with absolutely no fact or research behind it! Alexa G - silver: Gulliver, purple: Turtle (Ok one is a name and the other isn't a true rhyme, but they both work) Fact: even I'M not anal enough to check the whole list! Philic, Malvern

Humpty Dumpty was actually a Cannon that fell off of a Kings castle that was being besieged and broke into bits. The Kings men tried to rescue it and put it back together but failed. Hence "all the Kings horses and all the Kings men could not Humpty together again" The Castle was taken.Chalky, Peterborough

the area behind the knee is called the Popliteal Fossa in anatomical parlancePatrick, Gex

the Q.E.2 ocean liner does 15cm to the gallonNigel Davies, Shrewsbury

Its a myth that pancakes stick to the ceiling. But they will stick to the cat if you toss them the wrong way!Em C, birmingham

Stupid Arrow Related Laws: English all men over 14 are meant to carry out 2 hours of longbow practice a week supervised by the local clergy. In York it is still legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow (except on Sundays), while in Chester you can shoot a Welsh person inside the city walls after midnight.Dave, Widdrington Station

A saltwater crocodile has a bite of 3000 lbs per square inch! But it can have its jaws heald together by a human. Something went wrong in evolution i thnkAndy, Middlesbrough

People keep repeating the same facts on this page eg nothing rhymes with orange. I've read that at least five times on this page.Bill, stoke

the letter J is the only letter in the alphabet not included in the periodic table of elementsMike, Beeford

Shakespeare was one of only four men in James' court to receive rose damask material for his livery. Everyone else (around 2,000 and apart from footmen who had gold) had scarlet. This shows his status as King's Player as above that of several of the other players, including some of the more famous ones. Some see this as proof that he did in fact write his own plays rather than had someone else write them as many suspect.Lexy, London

Sigh. Your latest newsletter is rife with inaccuracies. Humpty Dumpty is NOT named after Richard III, Humpty Dumpty was the nickname for a large cannon. And Emma Bunton is categorically NOT 103rd in line for the throne, she doesn't even place in the top 500 - even if true, such tenuous descent wouldn't place her that high, and besides all that, her Catholicism would disbar her due to the Act of Settlement. And looking at some of the dubious facts on this page.... there is no code of where horses hooves are on statues that tell you how the rider died, "sh*t" does not mean "store high in transit", it is derived from an anglo saxon word that meant.... sh*t.The Pedant, Pedantic Towers

Did you know that the little bits of hole punched paper are called chads.Amanda , Poole

The Isle of Wight is the smallest county in England - at high tide the land mass is less than that of Rutland, commonly held to be the smallest independent county.James, Ealing

mimosa plants close their leaves when touched to protect themselvesAnna D

Did you know that my friend melanie didnt know who Freddy Mercury is....... BizzareMegan, newport

bad news - time flies... good news, you're the pilot!caroline E

Did you know that notes (money) aka paper notes, aren't made from paper at all? In fact they are made from cotton (which is why they can survive a spin cycle)Pearce, Reading

The area behind the knee has no scientific name, I propose knee pit??claire, rochester

ARRIVE: The everyday word 'arrive' is linked to the word 'river'. In former times the river was the bank, not the wet bit, a notion continued in the word 'riparian' - 'of the river bank'. Travellers from afar would come by boat to the river bank - in other words they would 'arrive'. The waters-edge concept lives on in the word 'Riviera'.James, Wolverhampton

Percy Shaw invented "Cats Eyes" after his headlights shone in the face of a cat. Had he have been following a cat he would have inented the Pencil SharpenerGraham, Bolton

Why is it before you can do what you want to do you have to do something else first?Graham, Bolton

Hailli Selassi claimed Ventnor beach (on the Isle of Wight) as part of Africa.Kerstee, Ventnor, Isle of Wight

Einstein got it almost right. There is actually something faster than the speed of light, originally thought of as just a piece of humour, there is actually a Speed of Dark! Scientists involved in researching Black Holes and Dark or Anti matter have confirmed that Dark does in fact move fractionally fgaster than light.Mike, Nottingham

I'm pretty sure the majority of these things we could have lived our lives quite comfortably not knowing. But it's a great way to pass the day reading them all!Hailey, Oakley, Basingstoke

What is an occasional table the rest of the time?Doc, Hednesford, Staffs

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma FlintstoneChloe D

I love this web site. But I guess you kind of knew that. LOLJ, Philadelphia

It is estimated that a full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white.Qian Hui, Surrey

Niagara Falls are 'switched off' at night after the tourists have left for the day. Most of the flow is diverted through a hydro-electric generating installationPeter Clayton, Ashford

if everything doubled in size every time you went to sleep you'd never know!Kevin, Penzance

humans share 35% of their DNA with the Daffodilcharlotte, warrington

DON'T SNEAK UP ON BADGERS AND POKE THEM WITH SPOONS, THEY WILL TURN AND SAVAGE YOU.ROB, BILLERICAY

if you put a tiny drop of alcohol on a scorpion, it instantly goes mad and stings itself to death. (what sadist discovered this?)Jim J, London

Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and raw sex appeal. Seconds after the contract was signed, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil and took his soul back.Rob, Halstead

The petrol dial on your car will have a small arrow near the picture of the pump indicating which side the petrol cap is on. If no arrow is there the petrol cap is indicated by whitch ever side the petrol pump has the nozzle..lee, Newcastle

The definition of a split second is the period between the lights changing to green and the driver behind you hooting.NJS, Bromley

If you removed all the fake facts from this list you would end up with only four entries. Matt, London

87.3% of all stastics quoted on this site are made up.ALLEN, GLASGOW

On average a caterpillar has sixteen legs.Simon, Wakefield

there are more planes in the sea than submarines in the air!andrew, leeds

Light travels at different speeds through different mediums. For instance it travels at about 300,000 Kilometers\Sec in a vacuum but a third slower through glass. The thing is, does it slow down when entering the glass and accelerate as it exits, or does the transition take place instantaneously, with no time involved? I should get a Nobel Prize for this one.David , Glasgow

There are 2.5 million rivits in the eiffle towerDavid Parish, Port Talbot

Panama hats don't come from Panama but from Ecuador. They are called Panama hats because thousands were bought for the construction workers on the Canal.John, St Peter Port

Eskimos never gamble.Me, Boston

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 sailorsDebs, 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 OrangeBarry, Frimley, Surrey

James Bonds preferred sidearm was the Beretta 418 not the Walther PPKAndrew, 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 bornDavid 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 diesbilly, 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 1752Dionne N

more people are killed by cocconuts than shark attackschris 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 longAndrew 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 monthsChris 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 groundHelen 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 2012Diana V

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

Dogs cant bark and run at the same timeAlex 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 yearsAlice 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 dailyfiona 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 backwardsSimon 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 watersJohan, Llandudno

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhillLouise S

A ducks qwack does indeed echo, despite popular belief, however the echo is so similar to the decay of the sound of the qwack itself that it's very very hard to detect.Ben A

On Aug 27 2009 the planet Mars will be the closest it has been to earth in at least 5,000 years. It will be the brightest thing in the sky next to the moon, and may not come this close again until at least the year 2287.Mal T

A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time. It is 1/100 of a second.Shaun G

The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is 'uncopyrightable'.Ewen M

The Owl is the only bird that can see the colour blue.Julie C

Cats have more bones in their bodies than humans so that they can arch their backs in a particualr wayRay W

By law No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour in California!!!Peter M

The oldest person to do a tandem skydive was Estrid Geertsen, who on the 30th September 2004 jumped from 4,000m. At the time she was 100yrs and 60days young.David P

In the 1950's the Government tried to ban saucy seaside postcards!Anita E

The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.Brett S

A person standing under an oak tree is 16 more times liable to be hit by lightning than if he had taken refuge beneath a beech tree! The oak tree has vertical roots which provide a more direct route to ground waterlJonathan C

It takes 12 bees their entire lifetime to make a teaspoon of honey!Jamie C

A basset hound is the only dog that can't swim.laurel R

Something you didn't know? We texted the 118 number and asked who would win in a fight, Dumbledor or Gandalf, they replied with Dumbledor as he shows off his magic more.Liam M

In Danish, a bog-handel is a bookseller, fag-litteratur means 'non-fiction', removal men are called flytte-folk and a bag-rude is a rear-windowTom R

Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US treasurymark S

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.Elspeth G

The dot over the letter "i" is called a tittle...Helen N

Did you know that Polar bears can smell seals who are 20 miles away and their livers contain so much Vitamin A that they can be fatal if eaten by a human? No? Didn't think so!Sarah B

Warming a pan of white vinegar on the stove (do not boil) will get rid of fish smells in the house.Victoria C

Elephants both laugh and cry.Victoria B

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

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia is the fear of long wordsJames 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 mirrorAvis 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 pieceMelanie 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 gallonTom 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 riverMichela H

If you let your wet cat sleep on your snooker table he will turn greenAlison 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 YorkBarbara B

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

The pirate radio station in Harry Potter and the Deasthly Hallows was called PotterwatchJill 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 fluffierScott 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 purpleAlexa 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) cellsMark G

3 is the new 5Derrick 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 measuredBurak 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 curryHeather G

amethyst is apprently a gem that stops you getting drunkRebecca J

3 apples a day lower cholesterol!John H

parasites live on your eyelashesRebecca 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 swellingDan C

I want a device that screams 'diesel, diesel, diesel' when I open my fuel cap so I don't put the wrong fuel inWendy 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 differenceangelo, lisburn

A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutesangelo, lisburn

The Amazon is the longest river in the worldNicola P

Iceland is considered to be a part of Europe, not of North America, though geologically the island belongs to both continentsandy 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, LancsAndrew 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 tomorrowAndy H

Icelanders eat Smoked PuffinPenny S

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

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

The latin name for beetroot is Beta vulgarisGeoff 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 levelLyndsay 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 upjonathan 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 bulletproofSailesh P

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

The toothbrush was invented in 1498Philip C

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

A woodpeckers tongue is 2/3 the length of its bodyJennie 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 lifespanKIM 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 radioSimon H

Legend has it that the Manx Cat lost it's tail when the doors of Noah's Ark cut it offSimon 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 behindRachel, 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 hymenTracy P

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

Fingernails don't carry on growing after death, the skin shrinks making them appear longerRachel 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 filmsLynne B

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

dolphins sleep with one eye openPeter J

wild cosmos flowers always have eight petalsRob R

women blink twice as much as menchristine S

It's impossible for kangaroos to fartJames, 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 copyrightedAlison 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 TowerRosemary Sheppard, Rugby

Electrical hearing aids were invented in 1901 by Miller R. HutchinsonMurdo 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 elephantIan F

Taekwon-Do means foot hand way in koreanLaura S

80% of the world's rubies come from BurmaJohn 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 supermarketsDan 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 364Joanne 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 typingGemma 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 shadowRob 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 PegansAndrew F

BABY RATS ARE CALLED KITTENSSARH, UK

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

One out of 20 people have an extra ribChris 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 painLynne 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?sRob 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 mansAvis R

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

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis is the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionaryjohn, 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 sweatingHarry, 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 kravitzgabriel, berlin

Grattitude is the sign of noble soulsTara H

Deux fois deux means 2 x 2Nicholas F

A snail can sleep for 3 years.Linda A

milk is a greater pollutant than sewageWilliam 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 deafChristopher F

Did you know, that the standard dart board is made from Horse HairMark, 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, sorrykimberley 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 pavementsFrances L

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

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

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

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

half a teaspoon of sugar in carnations will help them to last longerChristine 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 BeetleCath R

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

bats always exit left from there caveJames H

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

Jaws is the most common name for a goldfishPatricia 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 uncopyrightableStephie H

you make lace with 4 bobbinsMrs 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 packetRachel 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 actRachel 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 hairMyriam 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 aloneMaria 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 groundKim 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 effectiveChris 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 sequelAndrew 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 BeeJustine Wills, Bodmin

when a baby seal sneezes it spurts bloodgarry 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? lolStacey M, Edinburgh

Sharks are immune to all known diseasesHarry, 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 fromSarah 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 horseangelo, 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 everydayLaura, 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 spongesSarah 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 hangoversFrances 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 FlintstoneStuart R

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

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

the first product hp made was an automatic urinal flusherpaul, 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 camelMyriam C

The Sweat Of Onion is an anagram of I Want One Of ThoseSteve 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 againAlistair 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 clutchAndrew S

Butterflies taste with their feetLinda A

James Bond has one child - a son named James Suzuki. His mother is Kissy SuzukiSandra 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 operationalMATTHEW S

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

Flamingoes get their colouring from eating blue-green algaeAlison F

Dogs can't sweatAdrian, 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 impersonatorLorraine 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 gooseberryGenevieve H

Gorillas can't swimSandra 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 WendySandra 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 domesticatedCharlotte 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 sunburntBarbara, Dublin

the only dog that can't swim is the bassett houndlaurel 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 orthotetrachidecahedronsLinda H

Male & female owls have different hoots.marie D

I once ate 72 hot dogs over 4 days in Chicagomichael C

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

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

It is impossible to apply mascara without opening your mouthSarah-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 coatAmelia, 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 bandSally 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 cookkim 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 Fireboxsue 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 waterBridgette 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 parliamentnicola S

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

The left lung is smaller than the right lung to make room for the heartSimon 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 todays 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 waterFiona M

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

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

you can live on beer alone for 2 weeksnicola H

in a colony of ants some of the workers are farmersnicola H

Cats that eat flies become thinLaura W

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

Banging your head against the wall burns 150 calories an hourRuwan U

You can't tickle yourselfRuwan 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 stoneMark 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-satMaureen 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 CushionJohn M

Dr Crippen was the first criminal to be caught via the use of telegraphArthur 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 hoursScott 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 rightNick W

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

Bagpipes were invented in France not ScotlandDave 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 @ signAdele, 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 Wilhelmclive M

Skoda means broken in CzechMike W

Unatractiphobia is the morbid fear of ugly people.Karen F

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

Cows poo on average 16 times a daySue 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 flinkSARA L

Bombo has the closest rail line near the beach in AustraliaLynn 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 itselfNick, 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 keySally 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 timeVincent O

Flys take off backwardschris H

Total cheese production in Holland is 30 million pounds per weekVictoria R

Henry V invented passportsJohn M

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

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

There are 206 bones in the human bodyAsh 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 worldEmma F

Adnams brew Carbon Neutral beerAndy G

There are 36 Tic Tac's in a packClaire, Surrey

The valley of the kings is only just 1/3 excavatedGraham 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 caveandrew P

worms have five heartsanna R

Elephants communicate on a frequency not detectable by the human earRebecca L

there are a million insects to each single human on this planetvalerie 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 forceTracey C

Every person has a unique tongue printCathie S

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

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

A smurf is 3 apples tallGenevieve H

The worlds populaion would fit onto the Isle of MullColeen 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 KingShameless, 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 danceSimon H

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

Wilkinson was buried in an iron coffindork, wisbech

Author Chris Ryan used to be in the SASPeter 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 stairsberni, nth yorks

Sheep cling to the sides of mountains because they have velcro on their feetSandie, 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 BoardArthur H

slugs change their gender every 3 weeksHolly 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 brandyKay 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 warmingmaria S

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cookAnnemiek S

all the numbers on a casino wheel add up to 666Graeme 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 hatchbackFinny, 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 evolutionlouise, wallasey

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from cryingTyler, 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 nightellen W

Hong Kong has prepared a multi million pound plant to deal with 20 tonnes of manure a day from all the horses at OlympicsJoanne 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 basesDavid 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 hourAndrew 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 MexicoEmily 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 longAnthony M

Armadillos can hold their breath upto 6 minutesamanda 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 blackDarren 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 mushroomLynne 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 beardMartin 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 edibleamy 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 yearslisa 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 beatmaria, 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 downMelanie P

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!Gary C

Asian hornets can destroy a beehive of 10000 bees in a dayPauline C

the bamboo bat is the size of a bumble beeantony

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 doesntgosomeone, 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 seawaterrj 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 gardenBridgette 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 pigsSally H

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skinjoanne 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)veinouslymark B

Over land, hippos can run faster than peopleThomas 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 agletsdenise C

When the Coke slogan Coke is Life was translated into Korean the translation meant Coke brings your ancestors back from the graveAnthony 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 soldlouise 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 anusesNick 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 pinkJohn 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 secondsTym 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 thirtySTEVE 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 zooJamie 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 intendedSarah 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 1863Joanne 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 attentionFiona 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 sneezeshelley B

World's largest egg was laid by a one-year old hen in Cuba (179.7 g) earlier this yearLee 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 futureGemma 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 QueenJulie 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 downNicola

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

There are more than 7 million millionaires in the worlddale, 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 otherchrissy, 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 meJoseph 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 cheeseVictoria B

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LICK YOUR OWN ELBOWLORAINE D

My missus paints ace portraits of Storm TroopersMatt G

snails can sleep for 3 years without eatingMELANIE S

the space beetween your eyebrows is called glabellaAdam 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 borderssharron P

Hippo's milk is pink..Andrew D

There is 2,700 languages spoken in the worldTracey 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 reproducingSamantha S

A blue Whale's tongue is bigger than the size of a fully grown ElephantStuart 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 armyDavid B

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

all species of beetle are ediblekelly-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 competitionsjo H

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

revolution is the birth of equalityneil T

Nothing rhymes with orange.....Ellie T

fratton park spelt backwards is nottarf krapDeborah A

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

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

The title music of Some Mothers Do Have 'em is the title of the programme spelt out in Morse CodePatricia 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 handeddavid 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 hourvalerie 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 mouthSimon 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 explodelisa, 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 mouthmichael R

cats cannot survive without meatChris 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 fossaPeter B

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

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

Cigarette lighters were invented before matchesRoger 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 whiskersJames 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 seasonStephen S

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

ear wax when placed in the headof a pint of bear will make he head disapearAnthony 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 dayChris 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 DerbyshireRay L

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

Mint is a mild poison - hence the numb feelingNicola 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 furWendy J

A rat can last longer without water than a camelLisa D

Lions can mate over 50 times a day!Sarah B

A butterfly smells with it's feetGabriella W

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

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

If the biggest Planet in the Solar system JUPITER was immersed in water it would floatCecelia 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 sleepjohn M

Women blink nearly twice as much as menTym B

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

more people are allergic to cows milk than any other fooddenise 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 FlamboyanceNemivravi, Melbourne

Elephants are the only mammals with four knees.Anna N

Donald Duck's middle name is FauntleroyAndrew F

Earthworms have five heartsSebastian 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 milkYvonne P

Spitting whilst skydiving is near impossible and not recommendedBrendan 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 Dalekraj A

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

only smarties have the answerHayley T

A leech has 32 brainsEmma 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 implantMared 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 beingSTEVE 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 downG 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 sloshedPeter 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......honestSimon 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 oneJoe, 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 solidChay

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 outAlice, Hampshire

The first married couple to be showed in bed together on TV were Fred and Wilma FlinstoneMonica, 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 yearVicki, Newcastle upon Tyne

a cat has 32 muscles in its earmaffa 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 attacksrichard, Doncaster

Hippos cant swim. They walk along the bottom of the waterLottie, 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 shoesGreg 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 eyelidRachel F

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

a ducks Quack has no echo!Stefan D

THERE IS NO RHYME FOR ORANGEKeith 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 certificatesjulie E

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

sailors had one gold earing so that they had something to pay for their burialbryan 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 pupilsJonathan 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 charactertim 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 NationDean 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 opiumSharon 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 ÞigAngela 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 kneesPaul 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 senseTom

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 1652Hugh G. Rection, London

All toilets flush pitched at E FlatStuff, 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 :-P2lt 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 FlintstoneAmy 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 seedsJoanne 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 airLynn 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 stairsGillian H

A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.Sarah E

The space between your eyebrows is called the glabellaelliot 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 VancouverAnna M

Carrots were in fact purple originally.Jason M

Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Marion MoonWayne R

Giraffes are muteFrances 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! =OSian 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 UKPhilip 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 wobblesKieran 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 BlueJason C

You can't burn yourself on an egg shell, no matter how hot it gets!Eleanor C

A snail can sleep for 3 yearsMark K

The "save" icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwardsKathryn 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 donorsArkranger, Sale

Winston Churchill smoked cigars and drank a bottle of whiskey a day but lived for over 90 yearsNeil 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 coffeeJames T

Ernie Wise made the first mobile phone call in the UK on January 1, 1985Graham 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 productsAnna 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 neckPaul 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 winterMizz

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 vinegarGeorge, Cyprus

Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball gameRhys Davies, Newport

You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxiteRhys Davies, Newport

SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or belowRhys 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 soundRhys 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 keyholesChimpy , 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 wildJackie, 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.phpSusana 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 :- PChris 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 minutesLuke 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!!!! xxxWeini

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 dayKathryn, 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 engagedJOHN 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 treatyJoshua 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 CrabtreeAnthony Goddard, Oxford

Soap makes a better bait for mouse traps than cheeseAnthony 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 rabbitJoshua 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 yearalex 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 yearsChris 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 butterjay 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 Englandjay 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 06.07.08Les 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 BirdsSimon Nell, Reading

the worlds most shoplifted book is the bibleCeara 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 meltedHilary 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 tittleMrs 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 peoplePeter Craig, Bangor

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zooPeter 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 fameOliver 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 itTeddy, 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 wastedChris 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 sneezeSarah Dixon, Baldock

Dried apricots are a cause of small bowel obstructionPhilip Goode, Worcester

In Chester you can shoot a welshman with a bow and arrow, as long as its darkPhilip 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-stringLeanne, 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 itAndy 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 JoachimstalPaul 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 drainLynne 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 memberDaniel Jones, Rushden

Around 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each yearDaniel Jones, Rushden

Polar bear fur isn't white, it's clear.Wayne, Buckley

Every 5 seconds a computer gets infected with a virusChris Ash, Kettering

David Beckham earns 8p a secondBrad

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=98765432bob, 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 longScott 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 39-29-33Alex 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 ... TaxiCabJonathan 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 carrotsAlex Panebianco, Northamptonshire

111,111,111 X 111,111,111= 12,345,678,987,654,321Caroline, 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 languageM 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 Earthalex 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 eyesalex panebianco, Northamptonshire

Believe it or not chameleion camoflauge is not dependant on the chameleon knowing where it is. Even blind chameleons camoflauge with their surroundingsalex 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 timealex 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 themalex 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 keyboardalex 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 CathedralIan 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 worldBrett 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 greenMax .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 swampsRachael 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 hankymandy , brighouse

There is a famous swamp in the US called The OkefenokeeSophie 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*HEdd 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 Conspiracydelia, 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 sectionCraig, 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 handedLucy 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 foodBeverley 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 waterZeborah, 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 carsElliot 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 timesJames 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 thatDaniel 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 worldJames G

In Texas it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.Millie

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hairBabji 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 RoversNathan P

If anyone ever tells you newborn babies sleep for 17 hours a day, they ARE lying.Stepahnie I

Gorillas cannot swimMartin B

A deer has no gallbladderLouis 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! :-DMatthew 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 zerosJohn 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 yearSharon 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 awayRoland F

Glycerin helps bubbles stick around for longerCatherine 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 horseBex, Norwich

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboardSusan W

Ricky Gervais used to manage the band Suede.Jill C

It is illegal to spit into the wind in NebraskaHelen J

There are no words in the dictionary that rhyme with orange, purple and silverJulie 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 1910jen 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 1946Gavin K

The dot above a lower case 'i' and 'j' is called a tittle.Stuart P

Tomato is world's most popular fruitLee B

An ant brain has about 250000 brain cellsNicola A

Humans are the only species on earth that have face-to-face sexColin 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 reasonsAndrew 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 maximumJules, 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 machineEmma H

The saying the whole nine yards comes from the second world war where nine yards is the common length of machine gun ammunition beltsAndrew 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 tegestologyMike 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 eyebrowsSinead , Rosscarbery

A snail can sleep for three yearsClaire P

23% of photocopier errors worldwide are caused by people photocopying their buttocks.Michelle R

Milk chocolate contains less sugar than tomato ketchupJaboodi, 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 9mphLynn K

A shrimp's heart is in its headDavid 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 endChris 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 sideSarah-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 kneesPaul 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 whyBen 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 nowsteve, 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 timesPaul 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 DayRobert 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 kingdomGordon 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 NarniaSarah 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 islandsDan 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 wouldRebecca 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 feathersIan 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 betterClifford 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 hoursWilliam 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 : 345A 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 ParaskevidekatriaphobiaPaul 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 mothersCatherine 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 howeverStephen, 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 itmatt

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 hairDave The Rave, Runcorn

If moths like the light so much, why dont they come out during the dayDave B, Cheshire

Chickens get high when they eat laburnumAbi 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 continentsAnnette 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 vowelsSusan 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 camelPhil 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 purringPaul 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 pocketJohn 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 OrkneyChris 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 tomatoDavid 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 momentDavid G

Using sign language a Gorilla named Coco took an IQ test and scored 95 out of 100James 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 delicacysam B

Koalas have fingerprints like humansChris 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 parisdarren 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 yearAnne L

A rat can tread water for 3 daysKeeth 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-lawTell 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 sweatLouise 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 5Amy C

The Huntsmen spider is the only species of spider that has lungsian F

I am the current town crier champion of WessexJames B

Ex Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was on the university science team which developed the first portable ice cream machines used in ice cream vansPaul T

The first known contraceptive was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians in 2000 BCBob 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 - FiachraEthna 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 morninganouska M

Kissing a frog can cure cold sores because of a chemical on their skinEmma H

I can't make egg fried rice. I tried last night, but I failed in a major wayKirsty 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 1938Gemma, 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 1971Jackie C

During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.Heidi M

Iceland is Europes second largest producer of bananasJon, 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 whopaul 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 catNick 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 headsLouise 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 gallonTom 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 sticksDan, Longdon

If at first you don't succeed, try again, then quit, there is no point in fooling yourselfDan, 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 butterstephanie 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 AustraliaRob N, Auckland NZ

Only six people died in the Great Fire of LondonSimon H

111,111,111 x 111,111,111=12,345,678,987,654,321martin 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 weaselsSuzanne R

The statues of carriages drawn by 4 prancing horse IN A ROW.... is called a QuadrigaRachel 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 courtJacqui L

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USAJacqui 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 waterwayStephen 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 productJohn 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 liquidEmma H

The word 'chocolate' comes from the AztecsLynn 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 moistureMichelle 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 xxxAnna 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 RushErica 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 catsDavid 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 JapaneseSarah 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 steakWendy 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 feetBilbo 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. ApparentlyTim 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 KennedyOonagh 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 2012jamie 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 ballonHarry 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 silverMandy K

If you write out the numbers one to one hundred, you never use the letter "a"Graeme S

Space is beigeDavid M

Tapirs have no eyelidsSarah G

I'm in love with a member of your staffDavid 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 1950sCarl B

there are over 5,500 islands in the British IslesMark G

Apples are a better wake up method than caffeineCharlie J

Out of roughly 1,250,000 animal species, only 20 are penguinsBen 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 herChris H

Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?Peter, Hartlepool

My mum used to go out with the captain of the QE2Mark 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 siteAnne 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 tooliz, i cant remmber

Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogsToby, 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 orangejohn 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 lifetimesLouis 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 Fridayellen 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 silverShayanthan Rajakumar

Donaly duck was banned in Finland because he has never once worn trousersShayanthan Rajakumar

During World War 2, the Oscars were made of woodShayanthan 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 chromatophobiaEdward Whately-Smith

The american diner slang for sausages in mashed potatoes is zeppelins in a fogEdward Whately-Smith

The only tube line with connections to every other tube line is the Jubilee lineEdward 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 atomsOllie Newth

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.Jonathan Riches

The space between your eyebrows is called the ophyroncaroline prime

Male elephant seals can have up to 2000 kilograms of blubberJon 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 cellsMatthew 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 firstsandra 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 pilotMichael 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 hallucinogenoliver 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 todayLuke 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 factLuke 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 yesterdayRay 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 porridgeIan 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 decorationsvivien 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 twisterLEANNE 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 humansGregory Flynn

The IRS employees tax manual has instructions for collecting taxes after a nuclear warGregory 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 asleepConnie 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 BloodChristopher 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 elephantJoseph Baker

Water is sticky put your finger in a bowl of water and some of it will stick to your fingerChris 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 elbowDavid 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 internetluke 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 nosesHannah 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 donorslisa 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 10pmJason 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 bicycleChristopher 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 MinelliDominic 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: 61,000Elliott 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 firstElliott Hamilton

An area the size of Wales was recently left off an EU mapIain 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.SJanis 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 brainRob Horler

There is 6 kilograms of gold in every cubic kilometre of sea waterRob Horler

142 British people were injured in 1999 by not removing all the pins from new shirtsMatthew Nott

31 people have died in the U.K. since 1996 due to watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged inMatthew 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 wivesMatt Rowan

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.Matthew Nott

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwiseMatthew Nott

On average\, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every yearMatthew Nott

People in the UK eat more tins of baked beans than the rest of the world combinedMatthew 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 winningMatthew Nott

You have no sense of smell when you are sleepingMatthew Nott

The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particleMatthew Nott

The launching mechanism of a carrier ship that helps planes to take off could throw a pickup truck over a mileMatthew 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 taxShayanthan 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 insulinGary 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 heightSam , Stockton

the journey of a thousand miles starts with a broken fanbelt and a flat tyreashley, 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 WanRuthless, 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 fightIan, 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 Fridayyogi, 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 racecarafro 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 footSkiwi, 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 danceHarryBo, 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 :PSteph, 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 criesLogan 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 vowelsJamie

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 flamesDave, 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 orderRobert 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 stationpete, 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 4Alexandra 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 campaignTrevor 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 sincejennie 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...hahaKirsty, 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 cremationJonny, England

Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed peopleEthan, 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-thoughMatt 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 forwardsMB, Greater Seascale

How can you catch 22?karen smith, sheffield

38.75 % of statistics are made up.Robin, Leicester

I Like PieJak 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 lostRory, 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 snuffBeaujolly, 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 xxxSam 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 memoryChris 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 youBoltona667, 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 10PMBarnacle 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 daytom.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 thousAndsam 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 4.20Danni

More people died after the battle of Trafalgar due to bad weather than during t