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- In the game of Monopoly, there are 28 properties up for grabs
- Scallops can’t swim
- John Bishop wrote the Flanimals books
- A Koala’s diet consists of only mice and insects
- In music, there are eight semiquavers in a minim
- The Brazilian Wandering Spider is one of the most dangerous spiders in the world
- Zucchinis and Courgettes are the same things
- The Richter Scale is used to measure temperature and humidity
- The Hyena is also known as the Laughing Jackass
- British TV Series ‘Call the Midwife’ is a true story based on the memoirs of Jennifer worth
- Until 1972, only property-owners were eligible to sit on British juries
- It was illegal for women to wear buttons in fifteenth century Florence
- In the US, more women are the victims of domestic violence on Super Bowl Sunday than on any other day of the year
- Winston Churchill was once prosecuted for burglary
- In Louisiana, it is a criminal offence, punishable by 10 years in jail, to steal an alligator
- A student at Durham University in 1971 went to bed in the dark so she didn’t disturb her roommate. She woke up to find her friend murdered and the words ‘Aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light!’ written in blood on the wall
- It is illegal in Mississippi to tell someone what polygamy is
- Lee Harvey Oswald was the first person to be assassinated on live TV
- Al Capone was the first American to make $100 million a year
- In China, the crime of smuggling rare animals is punishable by death
- Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows
- Chronomentrophobia is the fear of clocks
- Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words
- Hypnophobia is a fear of sleep or falling asleep
- Peladophobia is the fear of bald people
- Panophobia is the fear of everything
- Logizomechanophobia is the fear of computers
- Musophobia is the fear of mice
- Nyctophobia is the fear of dark
- Brontophobia is the fear of thunder
- Vanilla is the most expensive spice in the World
- In 2007 McDonald’s officially changed its name in China to Golden Arches
- Tahini is the primary ingredient of hummus
- Alliumphobia is a fear of garlic
- According to a 2017 poll by YouGov, the UK’s favourite pizza topping is pepperoni
- Cochineal (red) food colouring is derived from bugs of the same name
- A new World record for the tallest pancake stack was set at Center Parcs Sherwood Forest in 2016
- An orange contains more Vitamin C than Kiwi Fruit
- Mrs Beeton was in her seventies when she wrote ‘The Book of Household Management’
- There are around 200 seeds on the outside of an average strawberry
- Singer Susan Boyle is a cousin of comedian Frankie Boyle
- Madonna was once sacked from a job at Dunkin’ Donuts
- Miley Cyrus’s real name is Destiny Hope Cyrus
- Rock star Sting used to be a Milkman
- Murderer Charles Manson auditioned to be one of the Monkees on the 1960s TV series
- Walt Disney banned his employess from growing moustaches
- As a child, One Direction star Harry Styles once represented his Country at Chess
- After his death, Elvis Presley’s head was removed and buried in a secret location so that it wouldn’t be a target for thieves
- Princess Diana once participated in a TV phone-poll and voted to abolish the monarchy
- Actor Mark Wahlberg was once charged with attempted murder
- Pirates used to make their victims walk the plank
- All laptop computers in the USA sold since 2005 are fitted with secret ‘key-loggers’ that record whatever is typed on the computer and sends it to the Department of Homeland Security without the owners knowledge
- A mayoral election in Ecuador was once won by a foot powder
- The Titanic was the first ship to use SOS as a distress call
- Red cars receive more speeding tickets than any other colour
- A lobsters blood is blue
- Peanuts are a key ingredient of dynamite
- Coca-Cola is used by police for cleaning up blood after a traffic accident
- Chocolate causes acne
- A wedding ring is traditionally worn on the third finger of the left hand because Ancient Egyptians believed a vein ran from this finger directly to the heart
- You use 300 muscles when balancing
- A pregnant goldfish is called a ‘twit’
- The Vikings wore horned helmets
- The plastic bits on the ends of your shoelaces are called aglets
- The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows
- There is enough carbon in a human body to make 900 pencils
- The World’s shortest war was between England and Zanzibar, and lasted between 38-45 minutes
- Hair and Fingernails grow after death
- Apollo 11 had only 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed back on Earth
- Cataract surgery was practiced in India several centuries before Christ
- Alfred was the name of Batman’s butler
- A tine is the name for the end of a shoelace
- If a Polish flag is displayed upside-down, it becomes the Thailand flag
- The second most-commonly used letter in the English language is ‘T’
- The Lone Ranger’s real name was John Reid
- Slugs do not have noses
- Tonto’s horse was called Scout
- It is estimated that 9% of the world’s dog population has only 3 legs
- Magellan was the first man to travel around the earth
- Bilbao is Spain’s largest port
- Kansas is the flattest state in the USA
- The Battle of Hastings took place on 14 October 1066
- There are 1 million ants for every human in the World
- The Scientific name for tennis elbow is ‘Tinea Pedis’
- There are 10 players on a women’s lacrosse team
- Justin Timberlake was the youngest member of 1990’s boy band ‘N Sync.’
- The Nebula Awards celebrate work in the field of astronomy
- Vladimir Zhirinovsky is the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
- Switzerland has four official national languages
- In the geologic timescale, the Cretaceous Period followed the Triassic Period
- Britpop band Oasis were originally called The Rain
- Christopher Lee, who played a James Bond villain, is Bond author Ian Flemings cousin
- The longest river in the UK is the River Severn
- Dalmatian dogs have pure white coats when they are born
- Platform 9¾ is where Harry Potter boards the Hogwarts Express
- In Disney’s The Jungle Book, the snakes name is Shere Khan
- George Harrison was the youngest member of The Beatles
- Alfred Hitchcock made cameo appearances in 39 of his 52 major films
- A musical octave consists of eight notes
- A ton of bricks weighs more than a ton of feathers
- English computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the World Wide Web
- Rhinoceros horns are made from hair
- A baby Whale is called a calf
- Disney Princess Aurora is better known as the ‘Beauty’ in Beauty and the Beast
- Spheksophobia is the fear of wasps
- Frankenstein was the name of the monsters creator, not the monster itself
- The dictator Idi Amin was also known as the ‘Butcher of Uganda’
- India is the largest producer of films in the world
- Although never the same, snowflakes always have six sides
- Debbie Reynolds, star of the 1952 musical Singin’ In The Rain, is Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher’s mother
- Al Capone’s first full name was Alphonso
- Male mosquitoes don’t bite people
- Sharks have a sixth sense to detect electricity and vibration
- A whale is a type of fish
- John Wayne never won an Oscar
- The bar in the TV Show Cheers was situated below a restaurant called Melville’s Seafood
- An ‘Ortanique’ is a fruit thats a cross between an orange and a grapefruit
- Ziggy Stardust was Frank Zappa’s alter ego
- In Golf, the fringe of the green is called the ‘apron’
- Bumblebees live in nests with 50 to 400 bees
- Margarine is better for you than butter
- Women have thicker skin than men
- 25% of all your bones are in your feet
- Robot brick layers can lay six times more bricks a day as humans
- The new plastic bank notes are indestructible
- Camels store water in their humps
- Treadmills were used as torture devices for prisoners
- Humans and Bananas share 50% of their DNA
- You cannot taste food unless it is mixed with saliva
- You can fit the entire population of the world on the Isle of Wight
- Bulls are attracted to the colour red
- Waking a sleepwalker can do irreparable harm
- Bananas will be extinct in the next 10 years
- Your heart stops when you sneeze
- Toads can give you warts
- Coca-Cola was originally green
- The first word spoken on the moon was ‘okay’
- The record for the most children born to 1 woman is 69
- Canada means ‘big village’
- Apart from humans, black lemurs are the only primates that have blue eyes