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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

Yes, of course I was joking. I'm aware that they are half rhymes, but it is still acceptable in poetic terms to use a half-rhyme. And it was a crap poem.

I wonder if anyone's ever tried to write a serious poem about an orange?

If you cut the head off a cochroach, they will live for 2 weeks before they finally die of starvation. I've never tried this myself.

If you stir a wood-ants nest using a bluebell, the ants get cross and the bluebell turns pink.
Don't know why though.

Gastrognome - how about the Romanian name "Bogdan" - make my DP snigger every time

Another fact - Dracula does NOT exist in Transilvanian history or floklore as a vampire. The vampire story was completely fabircated by Bram Stoker.

Doh- folklore!

40% of the city of Detroit is made up of empty/abandoned/derelict buildings.

A baby Puffin is called a Puffling.

Both cute and true.

The collective noun for a group of crows is ....

A Murder of Crows!

Which is fab and I love it - puffling super cute too!

Hugo Boss designed the Nazi's SS uniforms.

Poshme, I know that some kinds of ant squirt formic acid in defence. It could be that the acid is breaking down whatever chemical it is that causes the flowers to be blue.

2 micograms of botox, if ingested, will kill a one tonne guinea pig

They think the vampire myth came from a family that had a rare form of anaemia that caused their gums to recede and they drank animal blood for iron.

A higher percentage of the previous Parliament's MPs are currently in jail than the percentage of the general population currently in jail.

Apparently, nothing in the english language rhymes with purple either. Weird that these are the only two non-rhyming words and they are both colours!

The gunge from inside prawn heads makes a very delicious dip, if fermented, salted and mixed with various herbs and spices.

Aubergines contain nicotine as do other nightshade fruit and veg.

"nothing in the english language rhymes with purple either"

purple circle hurtle

Now make a poem out of those words!

Nothing rhymes with silver either....

Thebride; what is the percentage of old etonians who have done time compared to the general population. I am sure that as a % there are more OEs who have done bird than from my school. Darius Guppy, Lord Brocket, Jonathan Aitkin, Simon Mann....

Vampire myth; I thought it was that people were buried alive and they bit their lips in desperation, in the coffin, 6 ft down. (That is why I am being cremated).

Matekiddleton, I wish for cremation for the exact same reason.

why cant i think of anything that i know?

maybe i know nothing...

TAB, did you read the 5th book of horror on a camping holiday in France? I would LOVE to remember the name of that book. It taught me all my best paranoias. I want to give it to dc to scare the shit out of them.

Lord Lucan did not go to jail but might well have.

I know of a non famous OE who went down for threatening to blow the head off a traffic warden who dared to give him a ticket. He only had an enormous (new at the time) water pistol on him but she (very understandably) panicked and called armed back up. It was a great pity for him that his car was full of e.

ooh, silver, hadn't twigged about that one, another colour! Just heard it somewhere years ago

76x76 = 5,776