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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

Elephants can't jump

The most teritorial animal is the Honey Badger

Ants out number people on the planet by about 3 million to one

There are about 250 different species of Bees

(Thank you QI)

Huskys have dry noses so that they don't freeze in the cold.

The largest spider known on earth grows up to 31cm in diameter (inc. it's legs). Not sure what it's called, but it's a black thing with long legs that lives in some caves somewhere. Imagine turning a corner and seeing that. Urgh !

The record was previously held by the Goliath, a specimin of which was found at 29cm in width.

May need a very large shoe. Or possible a very large cup and piece of paper if you find one.

It's illegal to beat your rugs outdoors before 8am in London

Pah! Purple and silver have made my fact redundant now :( Although I could argue purple, vimto made a word that rhymes with purple. It's shlurple. As in 'Shurple the Purple' :o

Horses and rabbits (and probably a few other animals that I don't know about) can't throw up.

Melly19MummyToBeTue 07-Jun-11 08:42:45

Do you think this one will be born on the 16th as well? :)

Also, the thread is now in classics ;)

I hope not, I hate to sound horrible but it's my birthday! And also personally, I would hate to share my mums birthday

Edam, yes, Jane Seymour and Catherine Parr - Katherine of Aragon - annulled, Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard both had the marriages annulled begore their executions. I am a geek.

Well Melly, if you want to keep the tradition going, you will just have to remain pregnant until August. Shouldn't be too difficult...
BTW, my useless amazing fact is that the HMV dog is called Nipper.

August I bloody hope not! My sisters getting married 30th June next year and I said to my DP, "ooooh Poppy will be just over 1 by then!" and his reply was "She might not be!" He has no idea bless him :o

If I go 12 days overdue and have to be induced, it will be on fathers day, I was born on fathers day, I'd prefer to keep that tradition going if possible :o

Wasn't Jane Seymour his favourite wife, the one who finally gave him a son and then died? I can't remember properly, I don't recall doing the Tudors since primary school! I do remember the rhyme about his wives though.
Divorced,
Beheaded,
Died,
Divorced,
Beheaded,
Survived.

BoffinMum - Cekoslavakyalilastiramadiklarimizdansiniz

That is the longest word I know. It means "You are one of those we couldn't turn into Czechoslovakians"

Jane Seymour was his favourite in so far as she produced a male heir and didn't cause him any aggravation by challenging him. Poor Jane Seymour...she was very highly educated and intelligent, but history remembers her for having a son, no more no less

Polar Bears are left handed.

William Shakespeare's 'real' name may not have been Shakespeare, it may have been Shakeshaft or something similar.

He was born on the same date that he died. (Shakey that is).

When Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen, she wasn't crowned as Queen Consort but as Queen Regnant (ie as if she was the Queen like Elizabeth II is the Queen rather than just the King's wife).

Armadillos give birth to identical quadruplets.

2 is the smallest prime number and the only even prime.

Flour or icing sugar can be made to explode when mixed with air.

The probability of any land animal being fossilised is roughly 1 in 200 million.

The word 'gay' used to refer to a woman of loose morals in Victorian times. Some people argue that Cary Grant originated the modern usage in the film Bringing Up Baby, when he dresses in a woman's negligée and says "just felt gay all of a sudden". That was in 1938.

Edinburgh is further west than Carlisle

If you pour nail varnish remover onto a cigarette butt, it disintegrates and looks just like ejaculate.

But it doesn't ever wash out of clothes.

Pacific I grew up in Carlisle and I didn't know that! And I'm struggling to accept it

My fact is that you could have taken the tube to the last public hanging in Britain which was in 1868.

A fair number of vocal atheist Richard Dawkins' extended family are men of the cloth. I know this as one of my friends is married to one of his relatives - the Reverend Nigel Dawkins formally of the anglican chaplaincy in Yemen, now in Dubai due to the political unrest.

Cream and custard. Look on any map and see the longitudinal lines. There is overlap but Edinburgh city centre is definitely further west. Have won numerous bets with that. Glasgow is further west than Plymouth.

It will cost you just over £16 to stand up at a wedding and say you object to the nuptials.

If you can't pay the wedding goes ahead.

Edinburgh is further west than Liverpool and Bristol...

Dogs have a third eyelid.