Are any of you guys members of http://www.qi.com? Hours upon hours of lunchtime reading here, and probably lots of facts that will prove the much-loved quiz game writers wrong!
Here's a few nuggetoids that I found interesting:
Every Sunday, Royal staff iron a £5 note so that the Queen has something to put in the church collection plate.
Cats are much more likely to be killed falling from a seventh floor window than from one on the thirtieth floor.
Since 1995, the American Pet Industry has grafted more than 100,000 pairs of prosthetic testicles on to dogs that had previously been castrated. They are called 'Neutricles" and come in two styles and three different sizes.
When frightened the first thing a polar bear (see left-handed, above) does is to cover the tip of its nose (which is black) with its paw (which is white) thus completing it's snow-camouflage.
Kangaroos can jump but they can't walk downstairs. Honest. I've tried to make one...!
The motorbike ridden by Steve McQueen in The Great Escape is the same bike that is ridden by Henry Winkler as The Fonz in Happy Days.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. (Not too sure about this one it seems a little urban legend for my liking!)
1/3 of all the currency printed in America is not currently in the USA.
Ownership of gerbils is illegal in California.
Count Meral could part his hair using only his scalp muscles.
The Tesco brand first appeared in 1924. The name came about after Jack Cohen bought a shipment of tea from T.E. Stockwell. He made new labels using the first three letters of the supplier's name (TES), and the first two letters of his surname (CO), forming the word "TESCO".
The winner of the 2007 Darwin Award has been announced. The Darwin Awards go to people have removed themselves from the gene pool by killing themselves or making themselves sterile. The prize has gone to "The Enema Within" - the story of a man named Keith (5who was addicted to alcoholic enemas. He died after having two 1.5 litre bottles of sherry (over 100 fluid ounces) poured into his rectum. When toxicologists examined Keith, he was found to have a blood alcohol level of 0.47%.
Words in which the vowels appear in alphabetical order-:
Abstemious- practising temperature in living.
Abstentious- charcterised by abstinence.
Annelidious- the nature of a annelid.
Arsenious- contaning Arsenic.
Casesious- having a blue colour.
Facetious- trying to be funny at the wrong time.
Fracedinous- production of heat through putrefracation.