Okay, obvious ones first
the quack of a duck will never echo, and nobody knows why.

Pigs will, when engaging in shagging, have an orgasm that lasts over 30 minutes.

The word fuc k orignates from the phrase Fornicate Under Consent of King.

Orangotangues (however you spell it, I'm drunk), have 4 arms and no legs.

The animal with the highest IQ outside of the human is the Pig, followed closely by the dolphin

A silverback gorilla, when fully erect will only stand at half an inch. (his cock anyway).

The pinkie and the ring finger are attached by the same tendon,

Kebab meat is approx. 7% excrement, as it's mostly reclaimed meat from the anus and bowels.

The average McDonalds hamburger contains only 12% meat.

In Kentucky, 50% of the people who get married for the first time are teenagers.

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.

Einstein couldn't speak fluently when he was nine. His parents thought he was mentally handicapped.

In 1976, a Los Angeles secretary formally married her 50-pound pet rock.

The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."


Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots

Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Thomas Edison was afraid of the dark.

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h

Victoria Beckham takes it up the ar...
(stav999999, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 1:38, Reply)

Bacteria farm?
For every cell in the human body, there are 10 micro-organisms. You're carrying around all these freeloaders all the time.

On the Microsoft campus in Redmond, buildings are numbered starting with 1 and going up to... probably 45 or 50 by now. There is no building 7. I don't know whether building 7's construction was nixed because it would have been an ecologically sensitive area, or because it was too swampy to dig.
(chazz, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 1:38, Reply)

Uhmmmm
a 5 pence piece weighs half the weight of a 10 pence piece

Australian notes are made from plastic

Heinz has more than 57 varieties (100's more)
( beefandcheese, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 1:19, Reply)

Michael Caine
.. an avid trivia fan, wrote a book many years ago called "Not a lot of people know that". Its full of useless bits of information.
( a username Tue 30 Mar 1971 til, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 1:15, Reply)

orgy
the technical deffinition of an orgy is 8 or more people in a room with no shoes on

EDIT: or so ive heard
(Shigfeppers, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 1:11, Reply)

the world
will end in 2006 according to a code found in the original hebrew of the old testament...

and freddred - i just counted to 50 while thinking along to Final Countdown...
( Mr.Ons knows you can hear him, Earthmen., Fri 18 Mar 2005, 1:08, Reply)

useless information
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(freddred, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 1:04, Reply)

With regards to pigs/sunburn
cats get sunburnt ears - you sometimes see white cats with the tips of their ears missing
( beefandcheese, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 1:01, Reply)

speaking of Gilligan's island,
Most of Emily Dickinson's poems can be sung to the tune of Gilligan's island. try it!
(fantastic german, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 1:01, Reply)

useless information
its imposible to sing a song or recite a peom in your head whilst counting under your breath. try it. its impossible to sneeze without closing your eyes...dont try it.
asprin is poisonous to cats... dont try it.
a cat loses a life for every extra five feet you drop it from...dont try it too often.
(freddred, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:57, Reply)

ginger facts
ginger people have only been around for 20,000 years

gingers feel less pain than people with diffrent hair

lenin,cromwell,bodicca,nepolinon, elizibeth 1st
and allegedly washington and churchill were gingers

ginger hair dye is top seller in asia
cain the frist murderer fromthe bible was a red head

anichent people beleved red hair signefied a fiery temper , bloodthirstness and sexual potency.

one ginger started up a web site devoted to people photo shoping images
and some gingers type pointless info like this.
(bashman, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:53, Reply)

Another Neil Armstrong One....
After the famous "One small step" speech, and while relaying mission information back to Nasa, Neil Armstrong was heard to say "Good luck Mr. Gorsky". Puzzled technicians thought it to be some kind of remark about his soviet competitor, and dismissed it...

...Many years later, a young reporter had listened to the recordings made of that day, and on meeting Armstrong asked him what the comment had meant. Armstrong replied - 'When I was around 8 or 9 years old, I was playing baseball in my yard with some friends, and overheard my neighbours arguing in their bedroom, there was some shouting, that sorta thing, but the one phrase that I'll never forget is "Oral Sex?!? You want oral sex?!? I'll give you oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!!!" I only hope old Mr Gorsky enjoyed it..."

There are 6 other phenomenon like the Bermuda Triangle, located at corresponding positions on the globe.

Hitler and the Third Reich, were obsessed by the theory that the earth was hollow, and populated by giant aryans...They also believed the theory that there was a passageway to this world through the himalayas, leading to tibetians being found dead in nazi germany after bombing raids, in full uniform, and all with green gloves...dont ask me why though...

Someone once actually developed a (supposedly) working Cold Fusion Theory, but after sending it in to be patented, it was rejected because the patent officer had read an article in the New York Times that said this was impossible.

And this one probably isnt true...but there are claims that a dinosaur skeleton was found on the moon...
( Mr.Ons knows you can hear him, Earthmen., Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:51, Reply)

Randomness
If you rub your finger across where a line of ants are marching they will become confused (erases their chem trail you see)

Adam had 3 wives: Lilith who was the equal of Adam and wasn't going to be no desparate housewife; nameless, a gross human (sweat and blood and snot don't make you very attractive even if they are a part of being human); and Eve whom everyone knows about stolen from "sandman," NOT Da Vinci Code

Jesus, as a child, was a bit of a brat who could kill and resurrect his friends and small animals for fun (don't hurt me, I got my info from the History Channel!).

According to the Mayan calandar, the world will end in 2012 foreshadowed by a total eclipse of the sun.

There is no word for sex in Korean - many euphamisms and vulger slang, yes, but nothing for the act itself. learnt from seung

Bonobos (a chimp-like ape) and dolphins are the only animals besides humans who have intercourse for fun; for bonobos it's a way to settle desputes (hence why "Iwannabeabonobo"'s name makes perfect sense).

Pigs are the only animals besides humans that can get sunburnt

Sharks never develop cancer (or is it just brain tumors?), according to "Deep Blue Sea"

According to SomethingAwful: Yes they do chop up dead elephants at the zoo, and not only that but they also BBQ dead ostriches ("Tales from the Zoo" by BigPeeler).

We are all sociopaths at birth. stolen from Izmael
(Kitsune-chan I'm not a bunny I'm a grownup girl, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:44, Reply)

naff?
Sad man looking back over postings late at night, saw one saying naf = "nasty as fuck" in ozzie

i heard it was an english gay slang term (from a "language" called Polari, which may have something to do with Gypsies?) and actually stood for "not available for fucking" (ie straight)

answers on a postcard
( writerblock ... embedding disabled by request on, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:37, Reply)

useless information
Salman Rushdie (satanic verses) actually coined the phrase "beans, means Hienz" when he worked in advertising
(freddred, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:36, Reply)

Neil Armstrong's famous words as he stepped onto the moon
were actually written by his wife the night afore. And he got it wrong. He said:
"This is one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
His wife wanted him to say:
"This is one small step for a man, but one giant leap for mankind."

He got it wrong. What a twunt.
I saw this on TV, it must be true.
(Fido Dido, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:29, Reply)

Useless Info
A dog's anus is cleaner than a human being's mouth.

Hamsters go bald if fed onions.

Children under sixteen should only wear shoes with high ankles. If they are allowed to wear low ankle shoes this can result in arthritis in later years as the ankles didn't get support as they grew ( some P.E. teacher had told us kids this not sure if it's true).

Singer Clay Aiken can completely turn his legs and feet around. Also he had a pet goat named Nana when he was a child.

Hitler was a vegitarian ( like what's so important about that?).

A hummingbird's heart rate is 1000 beats a minute.
(FoxqueenUSA, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:29, Reply)

useless information
there are a few more words that dont rhyme, one of them being ironically enough "poem".
(freddred, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:28, Reply)

useless information
from the animal kingdom. Only humans blush (or need to as was once said). every hamster today is descended from one of 13 "syrian mice" found in the 1930's. some breeds of catfish swim upside down and the stripes on a zebra are white.
(freddred, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:25, Reply)

useless information
The Tarzan cry was sung by an opera singer and the first half "Arghoololololargh was then reversed to play the second part of the cry oohlololololargh... dont believe me go get a sample and try it. The matter you are made from was once part of a star (the sun). birds can be put n a trance by placing their head under their wing and lobsters by rubbing between their antenna..im on a roll know
(freddred, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:12, Reply)

Correction
Bringing Sarcasm To The Masses: Glass is what is known as a supercooled liquid and does flow over time as the structure of its molecules are not held in a traditional regularly crystalline ionic lattice. Instead, the internal structure is a randomly disordered liquid, experiencing both interatomic and intra-molecular forces common in liquids resulting in bonds forming and breaking as the liquid flows.

But the stuff about the mediaeval glaziers is probably true.

Apologies for length, girth, pedantry etc...
(Rushy, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 0:00, Reply)

Errol Flynn's father was the first man to bring a Duck Billed Platypus to the UK.
and Platypusses/Platypi(?) have similar reproductive organs to humans.
( Flash_Bastard, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 23:57, Reply)

The Australian national anthem...
...can be sung to the music from the Gilligan's Island theme song and vice versa.
( Pavlovsdog, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 23:51, Reply)

One for budding pharmacists
Some US states have limited the number of packs of Sudafed decongestants customers can buy as the pseudoephedrine in them can be easily modified to methamphetamine.

Over here though you can still pop them like Smarties. Huzzah!
(Rushy, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 23:50, Reply)

Those crazy amish
are actually evolving a 6th toe/finger (cant remember which) becuase the massive amount of inter-marraige between them and no outsiders.

When an Amish super-human is bread I will happily cower in a corner and let him romp accross the globe.
(TomBombadil- PWNS all at StarCraft till he got Call of Duty, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 23:12, Reply)

the fear of anagrams
is aibohphobia.

fear of long words - Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
(basstard, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 23:03, Reply)

Corrections
0 Kelvin is not the lowest possible temperature, as it is impossible to actually reach 0 Kelvin because atoms would stop moving, which is against the laws of thermodynamics. Or something. You can only get very very very close to 0 Kelvin.
And the term Pom doesn't come from Prisoners of Mother England. The truth is that no-one really knows where it came from.
And Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin impersonation contest.
(Iou1username, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 23:03, Reply)

wow
i didn't believe i could be shot down so fast. i'll get my coat.
(evil_beetle, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 22:56, Reply)

in 1992
a special wheres Wally was drawn with no Wally present
the bastards
(woo who?, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 22:54, Reply)

actually
actually amos wolfe the chavi chav connection is a coincidence.

other corrections:it isnt in yorkshire that you can kill a scotsman it is in shrewsbury and you are alowed to shoot a welshman with a bow and arrow from the castle
helenaphobia is fear of long words
(woo who?, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 22:51, Reply)