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.

[ZombieSanta]

Plants have a fever when sick.

Tonsils can bounce like a ball.

(Don't ask how I know the last one).

[noitsachicken]

I don't think thats true about cochinael anymore.

[DorothyGherkins]

10 Downing Street has a front door and a spare. You never see the front door being painted, its replaced with the spare that has already been repainted.

No idea how come I know that!

[itsblackoveryonderhill]

For every 10g of fibre you eat your poo increases by 100g in weight.

[somedizzywhore1804]

Jennifer Aniston's godfather is Telly Savalis.

[ZombieSanta]

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. Such was the fashion of the time.

[DorothyGherkins]

A baby puffin is called a puffling.

[FolkGirl]

I want a puffling!

[CointreauVersial]

ODEON (as in the cinema chain) stands for Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation.

[ZombieSanta]

Sloths (I love sloths, they're adorable) cling onto trees. However, due to long arms and their stupidity some sloths grab onto their own arms, believing them to be branches, and fall.

[sunshinemeg]

A pig has a penis shaped like a corkscrew.

A whale's penis is called a dork.

After mating a female fox will contract her vaginal muscles to keep the male fox in place for up to 30 minutes. This helps to ensure fertilisation apparently. You can hear a fox yelping late Summer evenings, now you know why!

Sorry they are sex related!

[FairyTiggybelle]

If attacked by an ostrich, lie down. They have a powerful kick but can only do it sideways, not downwards.

[Layter]

If a cow has twin calves, one male and one female, chances are that the female will be unable to breed as she will have no ovaries etc. The term for this is a 'freemartin'.

Polo is the only sport that cannot be played left handed.

[SandyDilbert]

there is a higher profit margin on popcorn than there is on heroin

Walkers use Saturday as an expiry date as it is easier for stock rotation - crisps manufactured in any week expire on the same Saturday.

[BatmanLovesRobins]

Poor sloths

[Mignonette]

Hogarth paid tribute to the Foundlings that resided in the Foundling Home he helped fund via the clothing of characters in his 'Rakes Progress' series. The sleeve pattern on one of the Women in the painting was the same as a piece of fabric left with one of the babies. There are many more examples of him doing this. You can corroborate this through the documents at the Foundling Museum.

Oh and Vivaldi was so inspired by Hogarths charitable efforts re foundlings that he set up and funded something similar in Venice.

[Fishandjam]

Reindeer with antlers on in December are mostly (though not exclusively) female. And Rudolph's red nose is likely the result of a parasitic infection.

[ZombieSanta]

People find sandwiches tastier if other people have made them.

(I'm training my DC in sandwich making early...)

[peppapigmustdie]

A group of Gnu's is an implausibility. Found this out during research for dd1's homework years ago. Always wanted to use it!

[Greenandcabbagelooking]

Oysters with three sets of chromosomes are "super-oysters". This is cool because most animals (including humans) don't survive pregnancy if they have three sets of chromosomes.

[VivaLeBeaver]

Killer whales aren't whales.


Jeremy beadle is dead.

[TheOneWithTheHair]

If you see a double rainbow, one of them will have inverted colours.

ZombieSanta that's so funny.

[gussiegrips]

only female mammals have clitorises, and it's only function is sexual pleasure.

Apart from the laughing hyena, who can pee through hers.

And, the ostrich. Which might explain the sideways kick thingie?

[RealAleandOpenFires]

Laser isn't really a word...it's an acronym. Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation.