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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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TheAtomicBum · 07/06/2011 14:00

The largest spider known on earth grows up to 31cm in diameter (inc. it's legs). Not sure what it's called, but it's a black thing with long legs that lives in some caves somewhere. Imagine turning a corner and seeing that. Urgh Shock!

The record was previously held by the Goliath, a specimin of which was found at 29cm in width.

May need a very large shoe. Or possible a very large cup and piece of paper if you find one.

GooseyLoosey · 07/06/2011 13:56

Huskys have dry noses so that they don't freeze in the cold.

theanimalswentintwobytwo · 07/06/2011 13:55

Elephants can't jump

The most teritorial animal is the Honey Badger

Ants out number people on the planet by about 3 million to one

There are about 250 different species of Bees

(Thank you QI)

NeopreneMermaid · 07/06/2011 13:51

76x76 = 5,776

sapphirestar · 07/06/2011 13:44

ooh, silver, hadn't twigged about that one, another colour! Just heard it somewhere years ago

Matekiddleton · 07/06/2011 13:35

Lord Lucan did not go to jail but might well have.

I know of a non famous OE who went down for threatening to blow the head off a traffic warden who dared to give him a ticket. He only had an enormous (new at the time) water pistol on him but she (very understandably) panicked and called armed back up. It was a great pity for him that his car was full of e.

Matekiddleton · 07/06/2011 13:30

TAB, did you read the 5th book of horror on a camping holiday in France? I would LOVE to remember the name of that book. It taught me all my best paranoias. I want to give it to dc to scare the shit out of them.

juicychops · 07/06/2011 13:29

why cant i think of anything that i know?

maybe i know nothing...

TheAtomicBum · 07/06/2011 13:23

Matekiddleton, I wish for cremation for the exact same reason.

Matekiddleton · 07/06/2011 13:19

Vampire myth; I thought it was that people were buried alive and they bit their lips in desperation, in the coffin, 6 ft down. (That is why I am being cremated).

Matekiddleton · 07/06/2011 13:18

Thebride; what is the percentage of old etonians who have done time compared to the general population. I am sure that as a % there are more OEs who have done bird than from my school. Darius Guppy, Lord Brocket, Jonathan Aitkin, Simon Mann....

NormanTheForeman · 07/06/2011 13:15

Nothing rhymes with silver either....

Spudulika · 07/06/2011 12:56

"nothing in the english language rhymes with purple either"

purple circle hurtle

Now make a poem out of those words!

Spudulika · 07/06/2011 12:55

The gunge from inside prawn heads makes a very delicious dip, if fermented, salted and mixed with various herbs and spices.

Aubergines contain nicotine as do other nightshade fruit and veg.

sapphirestar · 07/06/2011 12:52

Apparently, nothing in the english language rhymes with purple either. Weird that these are the only two non-rhyming words and they are both colours!

TheBride · 07/06/2011 12:38

A higher percentage of the previous Parliament's MPs are currently in jail than the percentage of the general population currently in jail.

IAmTheCookieMonster · 07/06/2011 12:34

They think the vampire myth came from a family that had a rare form of anaemia that caused their gums to recede and they drank animal blood for iron.

IAmTheCookieMonster · 07/06/2011 12:33

2 micograms of botox, if ingested, will kill a one tonne guinea pig

Snorbs · 07/06/2011 12:31

Poshme, I know that some kinds of ant squirt formic acid in defence. It could be that the acid is breaking down whatever chemical it is that causes the flowers to be blue.

ChoChoSan · 07/06/2011 12:22

Hugo Boss designed the Nazi's SS uniforms.

Mumanator · 07/06/2011 12:11

The collective noun for a group of crows is ....

A Murder of Crows!

Which is fab and I love it - puffling super cute too!

Selks · 07/06/2011 12:07

A baby Puffin is called a Puffling.

Both cute and true.

Mumanator · 07/06/2011 11:58

40% of the city of Detroit is made up of empty/abandoned/derelict buildings.

BrainSurgeon · 07/06/2011 10:36

Doh- folklore!

BrainSurgeon · 07/06/2011 10:32

Gastrognome - how about the Romanian name "Bogdan" - make my DP snigger every time

Another fact - Dracula does NOT exist in Transilvanian history or floklore as a vampire. The vampire story was completely fabircated by Bram Stoker.

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