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]

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

[JaneEyreTheRedNosedReindeer]

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!).

[noitsachicken]

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

[legohouse]

Jeremy Beadle is dead? how? when? why?

[RealAleandOpenFires]

Eels can travel over land not in hovercrafts through

[thepiggotupandslowlywalkedaway]

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

[kelper]

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!)

[PickledMoomin]

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

[LRDtheFeministDragon]

and at the fox one.

[TwerkingNineToFive]

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.

[Rooble]

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.

[RealAleandOpenFires]

Pandas are bears and Red Pandas aren't bears.

[TwerkingNineToFive]

The glaze on Cocktail cherries contains chicken feathers.

[PsammeadPaintedTheLion]

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

[BigBroIsWatching]

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

[Mignonette]

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

[DingDongUriGelleryOnHigh]

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

[eurochick]

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

[SandyDilbert]

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

[DingDongUriGelleryOnHigh]

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

Pipes used to be made of lead.

[Hohohowhatfuckeryitis]

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)

[AmIthatTinselly]

Bruce Willis and Bonnie Bedelia aren't siblings

But Gary Oldman and Mo off Eastenders are

[PsammeadPaintedTheLion]

Mignonette - Holy fuckaroony! Kill it with fire!

[sapphirestar]

It is prohibited to post chocolate to Australia

[sorenna68]

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...