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.

Mary Badham who plays Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird with Gregory Peck is the sister of John Badham who directed Saturday Night Fever.

To Rooble: I love that. Another reason for them not to become the Hull Tigers.

Caffeine is the natural insecticide of the coffee plant. Arabica beans are grown at higher altitude than the inferior Robusta beans. This is why instant coffee has more caffeine than posh espresso as there are fewer insects at the higher altitude.

Male cats have spiny penises.

Pity the lady kitties of this world!

Gary Oldman and Mo off EastEnders? That is brilliant!

Talking of Gary Oldman, he's actually a good few days younger than Gary Numan.

Birds can't taste chilli - they don't have receptors for capsaicin - so if you have a problem with squirrels eating the food you leave out for the birds you can put chilli on it.

Oh wait, that's not totally useless.

The average cloud weighs fifty thousand tonnes.

There is an arctic duck called a Goldeneye.

There is however no Santa.

Bonnie Bedelia is Macaulay Culkins aunt.

The Earth is 12 Centigrade in January, 16 in July.

Apparently if Finding Nemo was real...then, after Nemo's mum and brothers/sisters died, the dad would have developed female parts. And bred with Nemo.

The original version of Red Riding Hood involves the Wolf and RRH eating the grandmother.

Peanuts grow underground, but they are not a root crop.

Loofahs grow on a plant.

Diphallic terata is a term for a man who has 2 penises

If you were to lay your intestines end to end outside of your body - you would die.

One of Sardinia's famous delicacies is called casu marzu, or maggot cheese. It's a kind of pecorino into which fly larvae have been introduced. The cheese passes through stages of fermentation to decomposition. Larveal digestive action breaks down the fats, the texture then softens and, liquifies in parts. The worms can jump up to 15cm in the air and eye protection is sometimes worn and you eat the cheese coloured and filled maggots too.

martyr!

Mignonette :)

Mignonette Thats vile

Porcupines float

the flamingo one on page one is a myth. Widely believed, but now discredited. They don't need to eat pink fish/prawns to stay pink. But they can loose their colour.

I have posted plenty of chocolate to Australia. The easter eggs got taken out of their boxes and crushed (:() apparently they were looking for drugs, but dh very much enjoyed the cream eggs!

Flamingos are pink, orange or white, due to the algae they eat, nothing to do with fish.

They are born with grey feathers, but the algae turns them different colours.

Coffee isnt a bean but without Google I dont know what it is!! A nut sounds familiar!

I do seem a tad preoccupied with the vile tonight don't I Lucius?

Next up -name that bodily secretion.

I think I was told about the flamingo by a zookeeper.
I need to go back a few years in time and find him!