get loose waves: True (Possibly!?) Facts to amaze your friends?

Saturday, April 14, 2012

True (Possibly!?) Facts to amaze your friends?

(un)True Facts to amaze your friends

The banana is not classified as a fruit. It is, in fact, a subspecies of duck.

Geddy Lee's first name is pronounced "Jedi"

The secret ingredient of southern fried chicken is sawdust

The Battle of Hastings was actually won by the Sioux nation

King George IV of England reigned for 238 years and was succeeded by his canary

Barnet FC is now run as a "nursery" club for Juventus

The highest grossing UK movie of all time is "Carry on Cowboy"

Wine connoisseurs widely agree that the most sublime Chardonnay in the world is produced by the vineyards of Northern Dubai

The square root of 1999 is 666.

In its first year of business, Euro Disney attracted no fewer than 14 visitors

Women have big sharp teeth up there

Walking on the cracks in the pavement is thought to be a contributory factor in the development of testicular cancer

Given adequate training, a tapeworm can learn to respond to as many as 12 simple verbal commands

"Loch Ness" actually means "Ice Cream" in Gaelic

Human hair grows as much as 8 inches a night

Columbus was not the first European to discover America. That honour went to Roger de Coursey and his "cheeky" bear, Nookie

Television pictures are transmitted to your home by magic

In 1994 the most popular name given to new-born boys in the US was "Spunky"

The worlds first postage stamp, the Penny Black, was 2 square feet in size

February has 28 days except for leap years when it has 267

The Millennium Dome at Greenwich is made totally of polystyrene

The largest bird in the world is the giraffe

The pyramids were built by aliens to keep their CDs in

The Pennsylvania dish "City Chicken" is actually made of minced rabbit brains

There are alligators living in Northampton's sewer system

The final, spectacular scenes of the blockbuster movie "Titanic" were actually filmed in Norwich City Centre

Adolph Hitler's real name was Ernie Crackerjack

The odds of guessing all six numbers correctly in the National Lottery are 6-1

Princess Diana was killed by a hedgehog

Scientific studies have repeatedly proved that beer does make your dick get longer

At any one time there can be as many as 52 people on the internet worldwide

If you were to unravel the human digestive system it would stretch from London to Gibraltar

The dolphin is not, in fact, a fish. It is actually a species of herb

The sun is approximately the same size as 14 Gala Melons

Monty Python's "The Life of Brian" was actually based on a true story

Oscar Wilde's last words were "Whoops ma'am, up with the flamingo"

"Teddy" Bears got their name from US President Woodrow Wilson

To survive, a mouse has to eat 438 times its own bodyweight every second

The land speed record is currently held by a 1975 model Ford Cortina

If you are unlucky enough to spill red wine on your shirt, a simple way of getting rid of the stain is to immediately douse it in Ribena

All the sound effects on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album were provided by Rolf Harris and his Stylophone

The most successful UK television show of all time was "Oh No! It's Selwyn Froggatt!" with Bill Maynard.

93% of all the fossilised dinosaur remains ever discovered were found in one back garden in Swindon.

The hardest substance known to man is cork

The cat's ability to always land on its feet is due to it having four hidden "mini-feet" on its back.

The so-called "Hundred Year War" actually only lasted three days

Women can only be impregnated on a Saturday night

The cold germ can only enter the human body through the sole of the foot

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