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.

King Henry VIII's fat liquefied when he was in his coffin and leaked a bit onto the coffin bearers.

Edinburgh is further north than Moscow.

Singaporean-Chinese people refer to caucasian/white people as 'ang-moh'. An ang-moh is a ginger-coloured hairy fruit.

Babies look like their dads when they're born for some biological reason. Rhino milk is pink.

The shortest motorway in the UK has the highest number - it's the teeny M898 connecting the M8 to the A898 Erskine Bridge just outside Glasgow.

What do you mean one nostril at a time? I definitely breathe through both at the same time - how is it possible to only breathe through one?!?

The diagrams of the structure of the milk ducts in the breast used in midwifery and lactation textbooks were completely wrong until recently (2005) - because they were based on old models made by injecting wax into the milk ducts of cadavers. This process cause the ducts to expand into grape like pockets (sinuses), which were thought to store milk. In fact in the living breast these sinuses don't really exist.

Fanta was created and manufactured by coca cola especially for the nazis in Germany to get around the trade embargoes. There's a series of ad campaigns with the likes of goering and himmler all posing with coke prior to the embargo.

lrd I'm fascinated by those bible facts!

knickernicker tis true about babies resembling their fathers at birth and the reason I believe is genetic preservation so that a father wouldn't attack it's own child.

Baby Platypus are called Puggles.

Milk hippo's produce is baby pink

LRD, You're not the only one who finds interesting the facts about the KJV Bible and and Wycliffe and English.

Renaissance references to Jerome's Bible were referring to the Latin Vulgate. I only recently figured that out.

Hippo sweat is red

Hedgegogs can swim really well.

Reindeer can see light in the ultraviolet spectrum, helping them to evade predators in snowy conditions. It's not yet known whether their predators can also see in the uv spectrum though.

Bruce Willis and Bonnie Bedeila are not siblings. But she is Macualay Culkins Aunt

It used to be widely believed that Henry VIII died of syphilis but these days historians think it is more likely that he had type 2 diabetes, which obviously could not be treated as no one knew what it was in those days.

This would explain his mood swings in later life, which have often baffled people, as for the first 40 or so years of his life he was extremely rational.

Downside to this theory (in my view) is that although Henry was vv overweight, sugar as we know it had not been discovered, so there was a lot less sugary stuff in the diet then; of course I do realise that sugar lurks in all sorts of food.

McDonalds chicken nuggets come in four different shapes - a bell, boot, ball and bone

St Nicholas was originally the patron saint of children, thieves and pawnbrokers.

How do they make nuggets out of old bells?

Ta da

Sugar did exist, balloon. At least wiki thinks so: 'The Portuguese took sugar to Brazil. By 1540, Santa Catarina Island had 800 cane sugar mills and the north coast of Brazil, Demarara, and Surinam had another 2,000. Hispaniola had its first sugar harvest in 1501. Sugar mills had been constructed in Cuba and Jamaica by the 1520s.'

I wonder if he did get hold of some?

I am kinda revolted by hippo milk being pink.

(Oh, and BB, good to know! )

The correct name for England's national flag is the Union Flag. It is only known as a Union Jack when flown from the jack staff of a ship.
Therefore only the Royal Navy (and maybe the Merchant Navy) can correctly fly the Union Jack.

Another mcdonalds one - the till that took the most money in an hour was one that was in the millennium dome, on nye

In the sixteenth (actually might be seventeenth?) century, a large amount of people in Newport , and over in Bristol too, were killed by a tsunami.

Twerking I meant whole extra set of chromosomes(69 instead of 46), not just one extra.