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

[Canella]

You only breath out thro one nostril at a time and it switches every couple of hours.
Easily tested by putting a finger under your nose andbreathing out through your nose onto it. Then in 2 hours try again and will have changed over.

[PinotGrigiosKittens]

Sorry garlicbutter - twas a moment of mirth. I offer in conciliatory manner :)

[TalcAndTurnips]

PinotGrigiosKitten - yes yes to Portsmouth being an island! Mainlanders often think I am talking bollocks when I have mentioned this in the past. There are three road bridges, one rail and one pedestrian/bike - and of course you can arrive by boat or hovercraft.

A friend's elderly parents apparently spent their entire lives not once leaving Portsea Island (as it is officially known.)

There are two postal districts on the island; Portsmouth and Southsea.

[PinotGrigiosKittens]

Talc I realllllllly miss Gunwharf Quays (moved to Sussex from Hants last year). It makes me weep I miss it so!)

[JeremyKylesPetProject]

I have never seen an earwig in real life.

[TalcAndTurnips]

Pinot - I came the other way (albeit centuries ago) from Sussex by the Sea to good old Pom-pey (eee it rhymes!).

Wouldn't want to leave now - I love it here.

[NormanTheForeman]

I have just tried the self-tickling thing, and I can definitely tickle the soles of my own feet - does this mean I'm not human?

[PinotGrigiosKittens]

norman - me too! Soles of feet and roof of mouth.

[blueemerald]

I have a white cat with blue eyes and he's not deaf! He can hear a tin being opened at the end of the garden!

Adidas was set up by a German man called Adi Dassler. The German word for Street/Road is strasse. His factory is now on Adi Dassler Strasse.

Fanta was set up as a Germany alternative to Coca Cola during WWII.

[garlicbutter]

OMG, Pinot, I totally fell for that! gratefully accepted

[blueemerald]

And people who suffer from schizophrenia can tickle themselves all over!

[PinotGrigiosKittens]

[FilthyRichAndCatflap]

Hippos are RETROMINGENT...that means they wee backwards

[DontCallMePeanut]

Only two people know the original KFC recipe (according to cracked.com)

[NanAstley]

Generally your arms stop well short of your knees when standing straight. A very small percentage of people have arms so long they reach up to their knees.

White is the colour of evil in China (or is it Japan? sorry, not allowed to google) which is why the baddie in the kung-fu movies wear white robes

White is the colour of sorrow in India, which is why people wear white to funerals.

White is the colour of purity/virginity in Europe, which is why a bride wears virginal whiet

[setara]

the first 10 digets of pi are 3.141592645

if you get 100 people to guess the weight of something then take the average weights, it will be very close to the actual weight of the item

if you eat an apple while smelling a pear your apple will taste like pear :o

a man a plan a canal panama, is the longest palandrome i know

the name for a fear of long words is over 30 letters long (no i can't spell it without googleing)

[mawbroon]

There are 11 types of baleen whales.

And 67 types of toothed whales.

[vogonmothership]

An octopuses penis breaks off in order to penetrate his lady love

[HeadfirstForHalos]

Apples potatoes and onions all taste the same. It is the smell of each that makes you think they taste different.
Dunnet head is the most northern part of mainland UK, NOT John o' groats.

[GentleOtter]

Sheep cough like humans.

A group of goats is called a trip.

Rain falls on average at 7mph.

[SarahStratton]

Sorry, sorry amberleaf. I was doing the horses. Yes, that's the stuff, it looks green but comes out clear. Brilliant stiff

[SaltNSauce]

Oh cat ones. I did hear that all ginger cats are male and all totoiseshell ones are female. True?

[garlicbutter]

A mule is the only creature that walks with the hind & forelegs together (both right forwards, both left forwards). It gives them a wiggly stride which, you might find, you also get if you swing your right arm forward as you step with your right leg. Only it looks better on a mule.

A mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey. Ass is another name for mule - may be something to do with the wiggle, though I doubt it.

This thread has taught me: Sex is better for snails than for octopuses; sex with a snail might cure my calcium deficiency, though I'm not about to try!; the human body can be measured in lengths of the foot; glycerin and hoof pomade will fix all manicure problems; I can tickle myself. Fo, thread!

[garlicbutter]

er, Go, thread. oops