Useless facts. Share yours. No googling allowed.

[SeasickSteveIsMyBoyfriend]

Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

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

111,111 x 111,111 = 12345654321

[BrainThrustMastery]

The Michelin Man is called Bibendum

[garlicbutter]

I thought daffodils were narcissi?

[bamboobutton]

those giant boom boxes young men have in the backs of their cars can cause involuntary bowel movements to anyone in the vehicle at when played at full boom, or whatever.

[mrsdonkeybucket]

Useless fact ?

I am having Roast Lamb and all the trimmings for my dinner today.


Your arm length from elbow to wrist is the same as your feet.

[RockStockandTwoOpenBottles]

MrsDB I just KNEW that you would be on here with an utterly useless fact

[mrsdonkeybucket]

Shhhh ! Rock

Watching the tennis.

[EggyAllenPoe]

one of the five horses all english thoroughbreds are bred from is called turkish Delphinium.

[soah]

The only place you can tickle yourself is the roof of your mouth. ...Try it!

[paulapantsdown]

a killer whales willy is 2 metres long when erect

[ohboob]

Someone mentioned the Ampersand. & This was originally an E and a little t on it's side. As in the Latin 'et.' It was an abbreviation in medieval manuscripts. You can see this if you peer at it closely.

The 'ye' of Old English as in 'Ye olde coffee shoppe' is actually still pronounced 'the'. The 'y' just represents an archaic letter.

[mrsdonkeybucket]

Loving this thread, it's factastic

[deemented]

It is legal for a pregnant woman to urinate inside a policemans helmet.

All polar bears are left handed.

A lion can orgasm p to 50 times a day, whilst a pigs orgas can last up to 30 minutes.

[mrsdonkeybucket]

Cor, men got a bum deal then !

[ScatterChasse]

Dolly the sheep was named after Dolly Parton.

The length of your lower arm is approximately one cubit.

[ScatterChasse]

Flies fornicate for around forty minutes

[PinotGrigiosKittens]

"Flies fornicate for around forty minutes"

As does Ryan Giggs, by all accounts.


Portsmouth is an island.

Lizard Point is the most southerly part of Britain.

The same woman created Bliss Spa, Soap and Glory and Fitflop.

More words brerak the rule of "i before e except after c" than conform to it.

The word "gullible" is actually pronounced with a silent "le"

[garlicbutter]

Huh? As in "gullib"?

[deemented]

read the sentance again, garlicbutter

[PinotGrigiosKittens]

mwahaha!

[whydobirdssuddenlyappear]

There's no j anywhere in the periodic table.

[GetOrf]

bucharest Lithuanian is a strange language in that it is not related to those languages which border it iyswim (it is nothing like Polish or Estonian). It is actually closer to Sanskrit (ancient Indian language) than any other language.

I have been to Lithuania and it does sound strange to the ear - I would have thought it would sound similar to Russian or something but it doesn't.

[mrsdonkeybucket]

Pinot you devil, you

[PinotGrigiosKittens]

[GetOrf]

All white cats with blue eyes are deaf. Breeders artifically bred white cats to have orange eyes or one blue/one orange so that the deafness trait could be overcome.

Feel sorry for those poor bastards on the side of Catsan packs

Plastic composite is lighter and stronger than aluminium. That is why planes will all soon be made mainly of plastic.

[GetOrf]

hahahah at Pinot.