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Useless facts. Share yours. No googling allowed.

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SeasickSteveIsMyBoyfriend · 05/06/2011 12:57

Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Its illegal for a woman to eat chocolate on a bus.

111,111 x 111,111 = 12345654321

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SarahStratton · 05/06/2011 13:49

Horses cannot be sick. Nor do they have a collar bone.

Sloths grow algae on their fur.

You cannot sneeze and keep you eyes open.

Only female mosquitoes bite. And only when they are egg laying. That should still be banned.

Shaving does not make hair thicker.

Effanol is the best nail strengthened ever. Fact. Just make sure you buy clear, not black :(

JuicyLips · 05/06/2011 13:48

If you sneeze with your eyes open your eye balls with pop out of the sockets. (Have no idea how true this is)

Portofino · 05/06/2011 13:48

Hubbly bubbly pipes are (specifically) forbidden at the open air swimming pool in Huizingen, Belgium - there is a big sign up.

Now I did think such an item wouldn't normally be on anyone's list to take swimming......Grin

LadyBeagleEyes · 05/06/2011 13:46

Margaret Thatcher invented Mr. Whippy ice cream, or at least she was one of the team that developed it, when she was a chemist.

RockStockandTwoOpenBottles · 05/06/2011 13:46

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

EduStudent · 05/06/2011 13:32

Your arm span is the same as your height.

There are more germs in ear wax than urine.

Your skin is your heaviest body organ.

You cannot die from a lack of sleep.

Your heart is in the middle of your chest, not to the left, as per common belief.

amberleaf · 05/06/2011 13:32

If you have a 'stuck' sneeze looking at a turned on light bulb or towards to sun will get it out!

Cant wait for my next wee to try Bucharests teeth clenching one!

JeremyKylesPetProject · 05/06/2011 13:29

Babies are born without kneecaps.

MoonGirl1981 · 05/06/2011 13:28

Brown Malt Vinegar repells nits. They litterally run down the forehead and nect to escape but die too quickly to get very far.

Slug have four noses.

Lauzifer · 05/06/2011 13:25

Polar bear fur isn't white

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SeasickSteveIsMyBoyfriend · 05/06/2011 13:23

Sooo trying that Bucharest. :o Does it work for mild incontinence too?

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Bucharest · 05/06/2011 13:22

You can't wee while clenching your teeth. (that was a pelvic floor one) Grin

Bucharest · 05/06/2011 13:21

Rome is wetter than Manchester.

I read something really interesting about the Lithuanian language the other day but am buggered if I can remember, something about it being nearer to latin than Latin or something a bit boggly.

The 3 most bankrolled by the USA countries in the world per capita are Georgia, South Korea and Israel. (i read that in a very anti-US book by Chomsky so he might have been telling porkies to prove his point)

Basques, Georgians (again) and some tribe in Finland all have similar blood traits making anthropologists think they are related.

Aborigines were not from Australia, ergo, they learned to use boats when everyone else was boshing each other on the head with clubs and grunting.

(most of this facts come from Bill Bryson I realise....)

WillieWaggledagger · 05/06/2011 13:21

if you pick out the little leftover bit of green stalk from the top of a satsuma and count the number of little dots you can see in a circle in the hole it will be the same as the number of segments

this is not entirely useless - it has won me a few bets

MarisCrane · 05/06/2011 13:18

Smoking a Shisha pipe for one hour is equivalent to 100 cigarettes

NotShortImFunSized · 05/06/2011 13:17

It's an offence to eat mince pies on christmas day.

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SeasickSteveIsMyBoyfriend · 05/06/2011 13:16

'Birmingham has more canals than Venice.' Edu, that fact could have won my quiz team a bottle of champers and £50. Did they listen to me? No. I did enjoy the quiet smugness i radiated when the correct answers were announced though. :o

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transferbalance · 05/06/2011 13:15

if you combined all the dna from bacteria that live on you with your own dna, then you would be more bacterium than human

EduStudent · 05/06/2011 13:13

Bees don't have bum holes.

Cows have 32 teeth.

There is an arrow in between the E and X of FedEx.

Aldi is essentially 2 different companies, owned by the same people. Aldi South and Aldo North. We have Aldi South in the UK.

Birmingham has more canals than Venice.

If the original Barbie had been a woman, her ankles would have snapped as they weren't thick enough to support her body.

SecretNutellaFix · 05/06/2011 13:11

you cannot tickle yourself.

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SeasickSteveIsMyBoyfriend · 05/06/2011 13:11

Mel Gibson and Nicole Kidman aren't Australian by birth.

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ShimmeryPixie · 05/06/2011 13:10

The soft part on the bottom of a horse's hoof is called a frog.

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SeasickSteveIsMyBoyfriend · 05/06/2011 13:10

Ok I googled to make sure what my English teacher told me was true. www.vincelewis.net/law.html

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loopylou6 · 05/06/2011 13:09

Ahh I was close Grin

SecretNutellaFix · 05/06/2011 13:07

loopylou6- not quite right. You are allowed to kill a Welshman with a bow and arrow after dusk in Chester.

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