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Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

Its illegal for a woman to eat chocolate on a bus.

111,111 x 111,111 = 12345654321

Hairspray removes biro off leather couches.

Your foot is the exact size as the area between your inner elbow and the bottom of your wrist.

Illegal for a woman to eat choc on the bus? Really?

Oh oh oh, and in Chester, you are allowed to kill on the walls of Chester using a bow and arrow.

loopylou6- not quite right. You are allowed to kill a Welshman with a bow and arrow after dusk in Chester.

Ahh I was close

Ok I googled to make sure what my English teacher told me was true. www.vincelewis.net/law.html

The soft part on the bottom of a horse's hoof is called a frog.

Mel Gibson and Nicole Kidman aren't Australian by birth.

you cannot tickle yourself.

Bees don't have bum holes.

Cows have 32 teeth.

There is an arrow in between the E and X of FedEx.

Aldi is essentially 2 different companies, owned by the same people. Aldi South and Aldo North. We have Aldi South in the UK.

Birmingham has more canals than Venice.

If the original Barbie had been a woman, her ankles would have snapped as they weren't thick enough to support her body.

if you combined all the dna from bacteria that live on you with your own dna, then you would be more bacterium than human

'Birmingham has more canals than Venice.' Edu, that fact could have won my quiz team a bottle of champers and £50. Did they listen to me? No. I did enjoy the quiet smugness i radiated when the correct answers were announced though. :o

It's an offence to eat mince pies on christmas day.

Smoking a Shisha pipe for one hour is equivalent to 100 cigarettes

if you pick out the little leftover bit of green stalk from the top of a satsuma and count the number of little dots you can see in a circle in the hole it will be the same as the number of segments

this is not entirely useless - it has won me a few bets

Rome is wetter than Manchester.

I read something really interesting about the Lithuanian language the other day but am buggered if I can remember, something about it being nearer to latin than Latin or something a bit boggly.

The 3 most bankrolled by the USA countries in the world per capita are Georgia, South Korea and Israel. (i read that in a very anti-US book by Chomsky so he might have been telling porkies to prove his point)

Basques, Georgians (again) and some tribe in Finland all have similar blood traits making anthropologists think they are related.

Aborigines were not from Australia, ergo, they learned to use boats when everyone else was boshing each other on the head with clubs and grunting.

(most of this facts come from Bill Bryson I realise....)

You can't wee while clenching your teeth. (that was a pelvic floor one)

Sooo trying that Bucharest. :o Does it work for mild incontinence too?

Polar bear fur isn't white

Brown Malt Vinegar repells nits. They litterally run down the forehead and nect to escape but die too quickly to get very far.

Slug have four noses.

Babies are born without kneecaps.

If you have a 'stuck' sneeze looking at a turned on light bulb or towards to sun will get it out!

Cant wait for my next wee to try Bucharests teeth clenching one!

Your arm span is the same as your height.

There are more germs in ear wax than urine.

Your skin is your heaviest body organ.

You cannot die from a lack of sleep.

Your heart is in the middle of your chest, not to the left, as per common belief.

A snail can sleep for 3 years.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Margaret Thatcher invented Mr. Whippy ice cream, or at least she was one of the team that developed it, when she was a chemist.