Ficts

If you want tropical fish to breed then you simply turn up the temperature in the tank by a couple of degrees.The male and female fish will ...

In the England and Wales, civil servants get 7 "duvet-days" in addition to their annual leave entitlement. In Scotland civil serva...

If you grow a moustache, providing you're not grey, the colour will be the same as you hair was when you were 6. This is why you see a l...

Cockroaches can time travel as well as survive a nuclear war

When the access hold is completed they are sending in musicians first to keep the miners entertained until the 2nd access shaft has been com...

Until relatively recently Australia used to have left and right the other way round to England and America. This led to confusion for visito...

In the UK as many as 900 people go to church regularly.

If you drink your own wee then you wont wee it out again.

In the 18th centuary it was fashionable to have an ear pet. Masonary bees were very popular.

Strawberrys make you good at tennis.

Swan will be on the menu again as EU equality rules relax this age old ban. Swan rights campaigners welcome the news, a spokesman said ...

If you fart on cheese it matures more quickley

To comply with European equlity laws tennis scoring is to be decimalised. Although not yet known it is rumoured that 15-30-40 is to be repla...

To comply with EU health 'n safety, in department stores all lifts are required to stop at all floors whether they need to or not.

When you clean your teeth they heat up by 9 degrees.

Strangely most people fill in their polling card with their left hand. It is thought that this practice dates back to medevil times - the ri...

Chocolate stains can be removed by simply rubbing with fresh insulin.

60% of cups of tea haven't been stirred properly. This results in a sweetness gradient which some traditionalists regard as unpalatable.

A staggering 80% of 14 year-olds have never used a chainsaw!!!! And according to our survey 95% thought a chisel was a type of shoe.

The warm towels you get at the end of a curry are to ward off evil spirits that make you feel drunk. It is unknown as to whether this is tru...

0.5% of people are born with their bum crack going ther wrong way. It is said that this is the reason that early man started to wear trouser...

The unique solvent properties of petrol make it perfect for removing ear-wax, just a few drops is all you need!

In the same way that a loud speeaker can be used as a microphone, a television can be used as a camera.

In the same way that filling a kettle with hot water makes electricity, if you pass hot water the wrong way through a boiler you can make ga...

If you eat whilst spinning round you wont feel dizzy.

Sei Whale translates to Fish Fingers in Japanese

It costs considerably more to make white paint due to white not being a real colour. In order to make it they have to mix all the other colo...

Due to it's inert properties it's theoretically impossible to teleport gold.

The first websites got developed as part of a bet between two computer scientists.

Mushrooms contain enough spores to cross the whole of the Isle of Wight (when laid end to end).

The oil on the underside of pancakes aids their flight in the air due to the extra slippy'ness of the underside. It was this that gave t...

In the deapest oceans the pressure is so great that the water near the seabed is solid.

Feb 29th 2010 was the coldest day on record.

In London you are never more than 5ft from a homosexual.

23% of all facts end with a 3.

In the same way that it is good luck to find a 4 leaf clover, in some countries it is good luck to witness a car crash, an event that you wi...

Yodaism is a speech impediment whereby the afflicted speaks like Yoda. I've recently found out that some people actually want to speak...

If you press all the keys down on your PC keyboard at the same time you get a special character that no one has ever seen.

It's impossible to drink more than a pint of Baileys.

Tea made with urine is colourless.

You can't write on a pencil eraser with a pencil.

The dust in the bottom of cereal packets is carcinogenic .

Most peoples' bath plugs are attached to their bath by too much chain. If this surplus chain was removed and joined together then the ch...

Some people cannot wear in-ear headphones as this awakens a prehistoric fear that they have a newt crawling inside their ear.

...can travel faster than the speed of light.

If you fart lying down it doesn't smell.

90% of people hate Christmas. And a staggering 86% of people don't believe one can have a virgin birth. 20% of people aged 23 and over s...

It's impossible to go to sleep unless your feet are at the same temperature as your head.

A staggering 30% of most people can remember being born.

People who have regional accents can't mimic other regional accents.

Removing blood from yourself can effectively lower your blood pressure. Obvious really!

If you put the hand of someone who is asleep in a bowl of water then they'll wet the bed. Trying this on your young children is non-conc...

The number of miles crawled accross your face when you are asleep by spiders is on average 0.75 per year!

If you tighten your index finger in the chuck of a handheld drill and get someone else to hold the drill, after applying power to the drill ...

...is a number and there aren't enough atoms in the universe to write down this number in full! Actually this might be true, so perhaps ...

If you chew chewing-gum for long enough, not only does it get its flavour back, but it changes colour too!

If you joint the dots up in reverse order, you get a different picture. If you only join the prime numbers up you always get a straight line...