Tell me something useless but interesting I don't know. No googling allowed. Corrections welcomed.

[YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar]

I love these threads so please tell me all manner of useless info. [Thanks]

Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.

[TapDancingPimp]

Spiders can survive in water by putting themselves in a self induced coma.

[Golddigger]

Flamingos are pink because they eat pink fish.

[TisTheSeasonToBeGroupieGirlLaL]

There is a particular type of grammatical structure called a zeugma. It is a sentence that comprises one verb used in two different ways:

"He held her hand and his tongue."

"The seeds had been sown, as had the hem of her dress."

[cantthinkofagoodone]

Anal fisting can result in involuntary weeing. Nice.

[Shazjack1]

Houses used to be taxed depending on how many windows it had. The more windows the higher the amount of tax the owner had to pay hence the term 'daylight robbery'.

[MoveYourArmsLikeHenry]

A male seahorse carries the eggs.

[TattooEnvy]

Aah I was close!

[PetiteRaleuse]

The fuck thing is a myth. It comes from German/Dutch. There are several versions of the acronym story but they are all wrong.

[CarolPrankster]

Approximately 1.3 million Earths would fit inside the Sun

[SconeForAStroll]

Ooh yes shazjack that is why you sometimes see Georgian houses with bricked up windows.

It is illegal to carry fruit from one Australian state into another, punishable by a fine of $1000. And there are permanently manned roadblocks to ensure that it doesn't happen between Victoria and South Australia.

[VacheEspanol]

the dot above an i is called a tittle.

[elQuintoConyo]

An ostrych's eye is bigger than its brain (yes, we all know people like that, too!).

The first condoms were made of sheep's intestines. How did they know? buggers beggers belief!

Shirley Maclaine and Warren Beatty are siblings, as are Bruce Willis and Bonny Bedelia (who played his wife in Die Hard).

Dolfins have been known to rape those of another group/family.

[fortifiedwithtea]

Calling someone a 'berk' is very rude.

Berkshire Hunt = Cunt

Cockney slang apparently.

[BatmanLovesRobins]

Bruce Willis and Bonnie Bedelia aren't siblings, but Bonnie Bedelia IS Macauley Culkin's aunt...

[RealAleandOpenFires]

A possible origin of the fuck word is from the "Fukken" meaning "to hit or to strike"

[Lettucesnow]

All Chow dogs have a blue tongue.

[sazzle82]

If humans ceased to exist so would bananas. We have genetically grown them to remove the seeds over the centuries so now they have to be planted.

[softlysoftly]

Hang on how can a dolphin rape another dolphin? How do they hold on??

[RealAleandOpenFires]

Polar Bears have black skin, also their fur/hair is actually transparent.

[softlysoftly]

Tumeric is antibacterial.

Strawberry milk and other pink coloured stuff mostly can't be labelled vegetarian as the colouring is made from crushed insects. Cochineal bug I think it's called.

[noitsachicken]

I heard this on the radio, not sure if its true, but apparently there are more people alive today than have ever died.

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

Your instep is on the top of your foot!

[MelanieRavenswood]

The sister of Judge James Pickles is Christina Pickles who played Ross and Monica's mother in friends

[FolkGirl]

Paganini was considered to have sold his soul to the devil because no one believed he could have been as talented a violinist as he was without having done so.

[Waltons]

Of the 12 men to have walked on the moon, 10 were once Scouts.