super glue
was orrigionaly invented during vietnam to put peoples bits and pieces back in their stomach.
I have a size 11(UK) foot.
CD's are just as effective as throwing stars at maiming people
the OOW (officer of the watch)of the hindenburg walked away from the crash-unscathed.
Sean Connery playes a beter russian than scotsman.
The spicy chicken sandwiches at school give me spicy shit.
I am one person in a school of 4000 students-and its not a Uni.
Hitler's birth day is 3 days before mine.
If it wernt for the american army the french would speek german and the world would be a beter place.
My feet smell.
(kingmob3, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:32, Reply)

When Alaska was first being charted
the cartographer was unsure of what a particular area was called, so he marked it as "Name?" on his map with the intention of returning to the problem later. Eventually, the map was misread by someone or other, which is why we have Nome, Alaska.
( AgentMuu hentai coordination, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:32, Reply)

The longest recorded flight of a chicken
was 13 seconds
(Amazing Mr Strange, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:26, Reply)

There's one state...
...in America where blind people are allowed to go hunting unaided. With a fucking gun!
(DrDerekDoctors, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:21, Reply)

"every continent begins
and ends with the same letter"

Not strictly true. It depends what you call the antipodean continent. Is it Australasia, or Oceania? you decide...

/pedant
( mr_wicksy is.... old., Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:18, Reply)

24 hours in a day??
The are actually 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4.09 seconds in a day. And that's why we get an extra day every four years.
(colinbatesuk, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:06, Reply)

Truly useless info:
About half of my socks have holes in the heels.
(DaFrogg, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:06, Reply)

Mosquitos
have indirectly killed more people than every war in history put together.
( Malchick, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:01, Reply)

Scared of Flying?
Then read this;

More people are killed every year in donkey-related accidents than in plane crashes.

I'd rethink that donkey-ride in Blackpool if I were you
(MyrtleTheTurtle, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 19:00, Reply)

Thomas Edison is the first person recorded to have used the word "hello."

( Malchick, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:54, Reply)

GCSE Mathematics.

( Malchick, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:49, Reply)

Babies
are born without kneecaps.
(monaxle Ban the Mindreaders, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:48, Reply)

Trafalgar Square...
...is the most landed on property in Monopoly.

Apparently.

I've always thought that was a load of bollocks but hopefully someone can prove it with a nice mathematical equation/example.
(Roy Horn, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:48, Reply)

obscure fact
Bananas are not fruit-they are the largest member of the herb family
(BigAndyBee, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:45, Reply)

Rodentry Explosification
Let your hamster drink any kind of carbonated drink substance and it will explose because they can't burp. TRUE FACT.
(Pixel, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:42, Reply)

More economics facts...
Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes share the same birthday - June 5th.

Adam Smith's last job was a customs official.

Strange, but beautifully true.
(Roy Horn, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:34, Reply)

Niagara Falls are SWITCHED OFF after 10pm
Yep. Crazy. Don't believe me?

Check picture and text at this website (bottom): www.ianrowland.com/Travels/EdgeOfAllegiance/EdgeOfAllegNiagara.htm

Offical site confirms it too (bottom): www.infoniagara.com/other/fast_facts/index.html

Mental.
(slink, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:34, Reply)

Inspired by Blurred (who quoted my current signature)
The most impressive palindrome EVER:

"In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni"

Latin for "We turn in a circle in the night and are consumed by flames".

Bananas are shipped while unripe and ripened by being bathed in Ethylene gas (they would *not* believe this at work today).

All generalities are wrong.

And the world would be at least 10% nicer if someone dropped a multiplex cinema on Jamie Oliver's smug fucking face.
(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_(_ =o.o=, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:30, Reply)

God and Lucifer
I don't remember the source although it was probably the History Channel.

According to an old legend, God and Lucifer used to be lovers (that whole "they're supernatrual beings beyond male and female IDs" thing). When God declared that us humans would be closer to Him (Her, whatever) then the angels, this included Lucifer and Lucifer didn't like that very much at all - the guy was a bit vain, you remember.

After Lucifer keyed God's Car and kidnapped His Dog they had a big "Springer"-esque row that culminated in Lucifer moving to New Jersey, where the devil's been harassing God ever since...

.....................

In other trivia, according to ESPN Harry Potter is more popular then Da Vinci Code by about 10%

PS: Secretlysomeoneelse, I'd heard the word "set" has the most meanings in the English Language (but to your credit I've never checked up on "run")
(Kitsune-chan I'm not a bunny I'm a grownup girl, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:21, Reply)

These things I swear to be true*
Mancunians have over 50 words for rain.
Dogs can't look up.






*may not actually be true
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:20, Reply)

There is not only one union jack in the world.
A small flag flown at the bowsprit of a ship is called a jack, hence a union flag flown there is a union jack.
( bloobloo, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:20, Reply)

The most southern ATM machine in the world...

...is at McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
(Roy Horn, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:19, Reply)

Contrary to popular belief, a banana is not actually a fruit
it is a herb, FACT!
(Biggsy, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:18, Reply)

The cleanest
cubicle in a row of toilets is the first one, as thats the one that gets used the least
(anon., Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:12, Reply)

If you sing 'Stand by Me'
by Ben E King (which happens to be the most-covered song ever) 32 times, you burn off the same amount of calories found in a small cherry bakewell tart.
( Bob Todd whee, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:12, Reply)

Smelly Onion Hands
When you've cut onions and your hands STINK to the high heavens, to eliminate the smell, wipe your hands round your kitchen sink (normally stainless steel)and hey presto! smell gone.

Aren't Mums great?
(freelance02, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 18:07, Reply)

I've heard
all the actors of the naughty film 'Animal farm' are now dead.

Ahoy hoy (as used by Mr Burns in the Simpsons) was the first recorded word used down the first telephone... (so i've heard)

My Aunty Petula is a raving nutcase... FACT!!!

How long is a piece of string?
Simple... twice the length of one end to the middle.

There has never actually been an authentic original 'snuff movie'... So say the FBI anyway.
(Kayozz, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 17:57, Reply)

every four and a half minutes
a tupperware party starts somewhere in the world.
(nabi, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 17:57, Reply)

Oriental women
I have it on good authority that oriental women's vaginas go from left to right instead of up and down. Mt boyfriend says his dad told him.
(poomypoo, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 17:53, Reply)

Stockport,
the shithole where I live, was the place of the last ever wife-sale in the UK.
(Sorry, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 17:45, Reply)