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

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

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

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

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

Kawaii is Japanese for "Cute"
Olivia W

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

dolphins sleep with one eye open
Peter J

wild cosmos flowers always have eight petals
Rob R

women blink twice as much as men
christine S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Taekwon-Do means foot hand way in korean
Laura S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christmas was a holiday thought up by the Pegans
Andrew F

BABY RATS ARE CALLED KITTENS
SARH, UK

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

One out of 20 people have an extra rib
Chris S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The female owls Twit and the Males whoo.
Karen O

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

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

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

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

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

Grattitude is the sign of noble souls
Tara H

Deux fois deux means 2 x 2
Nicholas F

A snail can sleep for 3 years.
Linda A

milk is a greater pollutant than sewage
William S

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

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

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

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

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

cats have 18 claws, not 20.
s M

You know that some octopues have 3 hearts ?
Germain N

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

Chameleons are stone deaf
Christopher F

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

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

Leonardo Da Vinci invented scissors!
Liam N

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

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

cats don't like walking on frosty pavements
Frances L

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adolf Hitler helped design the VW Beetle
Cath R

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

bats always exit left from there cave
James H

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

Jaws is the most common name for a goldfish
Patricia M

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

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

you make lace with 4 bobbins
Mrs M

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

There are 26 Malteesers in each packet
Rachel M

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

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

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

Giraffes can lick their own ears.
Cathy B

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

Killer whales actually do kill whales!!!
Chris P

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are 525 948.766 minutes in a year.
Frances H

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

rabbits can't burp or fart!
natalie, cardiff

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Butterflies taste with their feet
Linda A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dogs can't sweat
Adrian, Ripon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A kiwi is also known as a Chinese gooseberry
Genevieve H

Gorillas can't swim
Sandra C

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

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

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

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

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

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

only pigs and humans get sunburnt
Barbara, Dublin

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

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

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

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

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

Male & female owls have different hoots.
marie D

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

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

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

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

A pound of armadillo meat contains 780 calories.
Leanne M

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

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

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

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

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

Ghost Town in Dutch is spookstad !
Simon K

The fear of long words is called Hippopotamonstrosesquipedaliophobia.
Josie H

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

Mosquito is the deadliest animal in Africa.
Liisa T

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

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

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

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

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook
kim J

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

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

Brazil is 600 square meters smaller than Europe.
Amy R

your goodies are better value than Firebox
sue B

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

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

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

James Bond's star sign is Scorpio.
Daniel O

I have a son called Ben!
Lorna M

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

a group of owls is called a parliament
nicola S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

i once tipped a sleeping cow...
Stephen F

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

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

All porcupines float in water :)
Louise S

its freezing today
s W

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

hot water is heavier than cold water
Fiona M

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

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

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

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

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

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

you can live on beer alone for 2 weeks
nicola H

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

Cats that eat flies become thin
Laura W

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

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

You can't tickle yourself
Ruwan U

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

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

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

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

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

Butterflies have 12,000 eyes!
Kristian S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bagpipes were invented in France not Scotland
Dave N

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

Ripe bananas glow blue under a UV light!
Chris Q

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every part of the yew tree is poisonous.
Alison H

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

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

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

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

Skoda means broken in Czech
Mike W

Unatractiphobia is the morbid fear of ugly people.
Karen F

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

Cows poo on average 16 times a day
Sue S

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

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

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

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

widcome judson invented the zipper! :)
Monika A

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Porcupines float in water.
Nikolas C

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chickens Can Get Milked!
Billie, arbroath

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

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

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

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

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

Flys take off backwards
chris H

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

Henry V invented passports
John M

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

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

There are 206 bones in the human body
Ash R

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

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

1 in 18 people have a third nipple!
Wendi B

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

Casino capitalism is destroying the world
Emma F

Adnams brew Carbon Neutral beer
Andy G

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

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

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

bats always fly left out of a cave
andrew P

worms have five hearts
anna R

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

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

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

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

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

Every person has a unique tongue print
Cathie S

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

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

A smurf is 3 apples tall
Genevieve H

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

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

Women blink twice as much as men.
James

Experts who study poo are called SCATOLOGISTS :)
Avis R

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

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

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

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

Wilkinson was buried in an iron coffin
dork, wisbech

Author Chris Ryan used to be in the SAS
Peter H

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

slugs change their gender every 3 weeks
Holly G

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

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

The latin word for goose is brandy
Kay S

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

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

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

Mageiricophobia is the intense fear of having to cook
Annemiek S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

mushrooms hide at night
ellen W

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Armadillos can hold their breath upto 6 minutes
amanda H

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

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

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

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

A polar bears skin is black
Darren L

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

the worlds biggest living thing is a mushroom
Lynne B

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peanuts are vegetables.
helen S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Forest fires move faster uphill than downhill!
Gary C

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

the bamboo bat is the size of a bumble bee
antony

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

nazi germany funded experipents to extract gold from seawater
rj M

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

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

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

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

Guinea pigs cannot vomit.
Ron G

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

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

most horses are scared of pigs
Sally H

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

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

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

Over land, hippos can run faster than people
Thomas C

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An adult cat has 32 teeth.
Jason S

The Box jellyfish has 64 anuses
Nick C

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

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

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

Hippopotamus milk is pink
John W

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Slugs have four noses.
Kim D

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

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

Bears can't run downhill.
Mark A

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

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

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

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

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

Purple is a copyright of Cadburys!
Oliver H

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whales sneeze
shelley B

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

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

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

A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
Kelly H

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

Baby Stingrays are born with feet.
Aaron B

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

octopi like cheese
Victoria B

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO LICK YOUR OWN ELBOW
LORAINE D

My missus paints ace portraits of Storm Troopers
Matt G

snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
MELANIE S

the space beetween your eyebrows is called glabella
Adam S

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

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

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

Turkey has 8 borders
sharron P

Hippo's milk is pink..
Andrew D

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

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

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

The Spoonerism of 'Sock Cooker' sucks.
Carla W

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

Both the male and female octopus dies after reproducing
Samantha S

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

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

how can anyone draw a blank?
andrew D

Costa Rica does not have an army
David B

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

all species of beetle are edible
kelly-ann M

Microwave popcorn is a great low calorie snack.
alex B

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

I love doing competitions !
Tony H

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

i love to win competitions
jo H

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

revolution is the birth of equality
neil T

Nothing rhymes with orange.....
Ellie T

fratton park spelt backwards is nottarf krap
Deborah A

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

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

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

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

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

did you know apparently polar bears are left handed
david S

Whales and dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Nathan C

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

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

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

The banana plant is actually a herb.
Marianne S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sharks don't have bones.
Sarah B

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

you can eat cactus!
Sarah W

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

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

cats cannot survive without meat
Chris M

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cigarette lighters were invented before matches
Roger O

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coventry will win the Premier League next season
Stephen S

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

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

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

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

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

The average person laughs 10 times a day
Chris C

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

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

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

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

Stan Laurel was born in Derbyshire
Ray L

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

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

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

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

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

Tigers have stripey skin as well as fur
Wendy J

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

Lions can mate over 50 times a day!
Sarah B

A butterfly smells with it's feet
Gabriella W

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

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

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

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

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

Alfred Hitchcock never won an Oscar.
Paul N

You cant sneeze in your sleep
john M

Women blink nearly twice as much as men
Tym B

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

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

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

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

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

An Octopus has three hearts!
Elizabeth R

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

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

That your nose never stops growing.
Lisa A

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

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

Elephants are the only mammals with four knees.
Anna N

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy
Andrew F

Earthworms have five hearts
Sebastian N

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

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

hedgehogs should not be given milk
Yvonne P

Spitting whilst skydiving is near impossible and not recommended
Brendan K

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

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

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

There are 56 bumps on a Dalek
raj A

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

only smarties have the answer
Hayley T

A leech has 32 brains
Emma J

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

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

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

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

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

Cats eat rabbits from the head end down
G G

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

snot and earwax are the same material.
Ross, UK

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cats have a 3rd eyelid
Rachel F

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

a ducks Quack has no echo!
Stefan D

THERE IS NO RHYME FOR ORANGE
Keith E

Moist air holds heat better than dry air.
Fiona D

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

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

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

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

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

goats have square pupils
Jonathan J

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

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

Koala Bears make rubbish pets.
Martin B

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words!
Tim F

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

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

You can ski in Morocco.
Simon W

The pituitary gland is affected by trance.
Alison C

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

Most people die between 3 and 4 am.
BRIAN S

A group of giraffes is called a Tower.
Debbie W

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

The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
Richard G

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

The capital of Bulgaria is Sofia.
Tim S

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

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

Silk worms only live on mulberry bushes.
Andy C

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

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

There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan.
Mark D

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kenny Everett was born on christmas Day.
nigel C

Snakes have no eyelids.
Paul N

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

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

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

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

Pigs have more tastebuds than humans.
Kim A

Dolphins cannot differentiate between water and solid food.
Richard D

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

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

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

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

George Washington had wooden false teeth.
Helen O

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

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

Pigeons explode when fed baking soda.
Chris B

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

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

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

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

Erinsborough is an anagram of neighbours!
Sally P

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

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

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

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

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

Cracking your knuckles doesn't cause arthritus.
Alexandra C

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

ODEON = Oscar Deutscher Entertains Our Nation
Dean H

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

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

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

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

Frogs predict earthquakes.
Sally H

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

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

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

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

Knock, knock jokes began in 1068.
Matthew B

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

Mageirocophobia is the fear of cooking.
Graham F

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

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

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

There are no great white sharks in captivity.
darren C

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crabs teeth are in their stomachs!
Amy, Hull

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

Hen's have 4 knees
Paul C, Chorley

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All toilets flush pitched at E Flat
Stuff, Chelmsford

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

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

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

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

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

It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.
Stuart, Birchanger

The Bank Of England make a £100,000,000 note.
Abiy W

Did you know that the driest place on earth is not a desert as you would expect but it is Antartica as certain areas have had no rain in over 2 million years.
David, Stockport

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
Neil D

The first couple to be shown in bed together on p

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