Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

All of the clocks in the film Pulp Fiction are stuck at 4.20

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

An octopus has 3 hearts, 9 brains and blue blood.

The UK's biggest 'banana ripening factory' is in Coventry. (Fyffes).

Techincally LOUGH is pronounced LOCK - but in Scotland its LOCH=LOCK ah, the wonders of the English language!

Did you know that a groundhog is also called a woodchuck, which is used in that tongue twister "how much wood can a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood)

Chewing gum while chopping an onion will prevent your eyes from running.

10% of the world’s population are left handed.

New York drifts about one inch farther from London each year.

One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding on our planet disguised as humans.

A man from Britain changed his name to Tim Pppppppppprice to make it harder for telemarketers to pronounce.

Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn’t wear pants.

73% of the population will believe any stat you tell them.

Months that begin on Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

A film called 'White Men Can't Jump' translates in another country(I forget which) as White Men Can't Get It Up!

The JD in JD Wetherspoon is from a character in tv's The Dukes of Hazzard; Wetherspoon was a geography teacher at the founder's primary school.

More than 50% of the world’s population have never made or received a telephone call.