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- The first bird to ever use an Xbox controller was a Kea called Parau.
- The gold in Tutankhamun’s tomb had been stolen from the tombs of other pharaohs.
- England’s biggest horticultural export is the fig.
- The same molecule that makes chicken taste like chicken can also be found in ground up oyster shells.
- Prince Phillip is widely credited with the invention of the party popper.
- Thyme is technically a tree.
- By definition a snake’s body is a limb.
- The roller coaster was invented during the Hundred Years’ War as a way of launching supplies across rivers.
- The toenail of your little toe is called the ‘spungle’.
- Courgette is actually the feminine noun of cucumber.
- The first video ever uploaded to Youtube had to be taken down in 2016 for violating their Terms of Service.
- There is a nerveless area of skin half the size of a playing card on the top of your foot. Your brain compensates for it.
- The biggest arms manufacturer in the world is Hasbro.
- By weight, bay leaves contain more caffeine than coffee beans. They are used to make a stimulating tea in Morocco.
- Vikings never fired flaming arrows at boats carrying the dead. They would sink them by running them over with a larger boat.
- There is a ‘Buzzy Bee’ still at the top of Mt Everest, left there by Edmund Hillary.
- Originally the Fonz was going to wear a leather vest but the popularity of the Village People made them switch to a jacket.
- Johnny Cash once got into a fist fight with Colonel Sanders over a sports game.
- There are more submarines in lakes right now than there are in the oceans.
- Gold nuggets were named after chicken nuggets – not the other way around.
- Buzz Aldrin left a pen on the moon after the first visit. Eugene Cernan, the last moon walker, found it. It still worked.
- There is a pattern on the inside of your upper eyelid that is as unique as your fingerprint.
- At least two unconnected cultures have used sparrow skulls as a form of currency.
- The President of Senegal was one of the scientists who developed the Large Hadron Collider.
- The kneecap is the roundest part of your body.
- The Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to a scientist who proved that a tree falling in the woods really does make a sound.
- JRR Tolkien refused to let his books be read out loud to people until after his death, preferring to keep his words ‘on the page’.
- Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s ‘The Simple Life’ is one of the most syndicated TV shows in the world.
- All fossils found in Canada belong to the Queen.
- The first sunglasses were actually animal skin scraped so thin that it became transparent.
- Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’ is a sequel. The first book is lost forever.
- One of the gems on the Crown Jewels is a marble glued there by Edward the Confessor’s son.
- Researchers in the Antarctic will use apply whitening toothpaste to their drills when boring into the ice shelf.
- Due to the inclusion of certain metal isotopes in its construction, the standard trombone is actually radioactive.
- ‘Bat Out of Hell’ was written by Meatloaf after an argument with Ozzy Osborne.
- The word ‘Loanshark’ was originally, ‘Loans, hark’.
- Jellified red wine was used as a lubricant by the ancient Greeks.
- One of the rings of Saturn is almost pure silver dust.
- Every member of Iron Maiden was a Quaker.
- The national anthem of Lithuania is palindromic. It plays backwards exactly the same way that it plays forwards.
- In Brazil they call Brazil nuts ‘Argentines’.
- The first pair of scissors was left-handed.
- The @ symbol was invented by Charles de Gaulle.
- Every member of The Baha Men is dead.
- A furlong was defined as the distance a mule can run in two minutes.
- The Eiffel Tower has bumps along its ‘legs’ that spell the French national motto in braille.
- The phrase, ‘If pain persists, see your doctor’ has been copyrighted by Bayer.
- Venetian blinds were invented in Venice.
- Cat Stevens first name is Catherine.
- The first copy of the Oxford English dictionary is missing the word ‘dictionary’.
- New Zealanders use more toilet paper per capita than any other country.
- Otters have been known to coat stones with fish scales to lure in birds.
- The largest sushi roll ever made would be impossible to transport through the Channel Tunnel.
- Morris dancing was invented by a guy called Morris.
- 95% of people are pronouncing the name of the band ‘Live’ incorrectly.
- X-rays cannot pass through Velcro.
- The Boy Scouts were counted as part of the American military until 1986.
- Once a year all of Wikipedia is printed off and placed in a vault in Norway.
- While Thomas Crapper didn’t invent the toilet, he was killed by one.
- A copy of Detective Comics #38 exists with an error that has Batman constantly refer to his sidekick as ‘Bobin’.
- The producers of the movie ‘Air Bud’ are currently suing Apple for copyright infringement.
- Genghis Khan brought dressage to Europe.
- Resene has a 100 year contract to provide paint for the Hoover Dam.
- Where’s Wally books are used in the entry exam for MI6.
- Bubbles have a seam.
- In Lesotho it is considered rude not to offer someone a bite of your food before you start eating.
- Dave Bautista has been the leader of an improv troupe for the past twenty years.
- The National Library of Singapore uses woven human hair for bookmarks to preserve the condition of the pages.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘Prometheus Unbound’ contains the first use of the word ‘Whoops’.
- An adolescent owl is called a ‘novice’.
- On average, three people are injured every time an audience gives a standing ovation.
- Napoleon was ashamed of his nipples and refused to let anyone see them. Even during medical treatments.
- There are no synonyms for thesaurus.
- ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ is the most stolen book in the world.
- Peppermint can’t be smelt by guinea pigs.
- The Lego headquarters has had to be rebuilt three times due to shoddy construction.
- MRI scans of cat brains have revealed that they see humans as a prey species.
- The lowest tone that can be hit by a specific tuba is called the ‘crass’.
- The ‘Peter Piper Procession’ is a yearly contest wherein participants compete to say the ‘Peter Piper’ tongue twister the fastest.
- Examination of recently discovered texts indicates that the Hittites first invented the slinky.
- Today more messages are sent using carrier pigeons than are sent via fax.
- The banjoist from the ‘Duelling Banjos; scene of Deliverance was offered a record deal. It reached number 15 on the Billboard charts.
- According to the International Federation of Poker, socks don’t count as an item of clothing in strip poker.
- The Geneva Convention’s prohibition of improper use of distinctive emblems during warfare also applies to the Jolly Roger.
- Every screw used in the construction of Vatican City has a cross on the head. They must never be upside down.
- The shoes of King Edward IV were weighted with lead to make his walk seem more imposing.
- During the breeding season, female cockroaches smell like pineapple.
- The music of the band ‘Rush’ has been featured in more video games than any other band or musician.
- Emeril Lagasse refused to ever use a spatula.
- Kevin Bacon founded an organisation that re-homes rescued factory farm pigs.
- Voltaire’s father was a cobbler.
- In American Football, touchdowns were originally called ‘tapstops’.
- The names of all missing persons in Honduras are kept in a register called ‘The Imponderables’.
- There exists a Sherlock Holmes story containing a kiss between Holmes and Watson but all copies are held by the Doyle estate.
- The founders of Johnson & Johnson were not related.
- A solid gold fidget spinner has been made, but it broke its first users index finger due to its weight.
- The longest game of mah-jong ever lasted for three years. It finished when the house it was being played in burned down.
- In Argentina, ‘Where in the World is Carmen San Diego’ is called, ‘In Pursuit of the Red Rebellious Bird’.
- Historical records indicate that the dairy cow’s moo used to be significantly louder than it currently is.
- Penguins have wavy feathers that produce a similar effect when moving through water as golf ball dimples do in the air.
- The banana tree is the tallest growing grass in the world.
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