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

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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.

A whale's penis is called a dork

I take it this us where the 'dork' insult originates?

Gonna have to use it more often

Joan Fontaine, the actress who played the second Mrs de Winter in Rebecca, died yesterday at the age of 96. I think she is survived by her sister, the actress Oiliva de Havilland - the two had a long-standing feud. I believe she was also estranged from her adopted daughter (but can't check because not allowed to google!).

Another sloth one, they are the only mammal who's hair grows from the middle if their tummy rather than head/back.

Jeremy Beadle is dead? how? when? why?

Eels can travel over land not in hovercrafts through

The adjective 'feisty' comes from a word meaning 'flatulent'. You're basically calling someone farty.

A giraffe has the same number of neck bones as a mouse.
A zebra has black skin and white stripes.
There's a type of mountain goat that, when they fight, bang their heads together so hard their hooves can fall off (this was a factoid years ago on Steve wrights show, I love the idea of it, have no idea if it's true!)

You only breathe through one nostril at a time in rotation. I learnt that here

and at the fox one.

There are not more people alive today than there ever has been. (Source radio 4)
Humans do survive with 3 chromosomes (women can have triple x syndrome and men can have 2 X chromosomes).
Sorry.

Haven't read through the whole thread to see if someone has already written this: Hull City is the only football club in England whose name contains no letters that can be coloured in.

Pandas are bears and Red Pandas aren't bears.

The glaze on Cocktail cherries contains chicken feathers.

I definitely breathe in and out of both nostrils at the same time.

Peanuts grow underground. Apologies if already stated; can't be arsed to read through the whole thread!

This is the Crocturkey- the latest thing to have on your Christmas table. Turkey stuffed with Crab and Octopus.

I'm breathing through both my nostrils! I can feel the air coming out!

Women can grow hair everywhere that men can apart from inside the ear - we lack the gene (thankfully).

Many more people have lived and died than the amount that are alive today.

The trade 'Plumber' and the verb 'to plumb' comes from the Latin 'plumbum' which means lead.

Pipes used to be made of lead.

The collective term for larks is an exaltation. That's lovely. If you get cramp in feet or legs go for a wee and you excrete Uric acid and it stops.(actually that's quite useful)

Bruce Willis and Bonnie Bedelia aren't siblings

But Gary Oldman and Mo off Eastenders are

Mignonette - Holy fuckaroony! Kill it with fire!

It is prohibited to post chocolate to Australia

Molecules are tiny amounts of matter and large amounts of nothing. If you could squeeze all the matter, that makes up mankind, together, it would be the size of a sugarcube...