What is your favourite piece of trivia?

[beale]

I'm collecting them..

[Kos]

Cat urine is flourescent

[mynx]

So is tonic water under uv light.

[Noweia]

A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.

Goldfish can see in infra-red, kestrels can see UV.

[jno]

johnyollet, the usual figure is that 10 per cent of Americans DO own passports. seehttp://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2003/01/31/how_many_a merica.php (which actually thinks maybe 20%).

My own offering: there shouldn't be an S in island. Back in the 17th century or so people started muddling up the French-derived word isle with the Old English-derived word iland. They aren't actually related. And as for the C in scissors...

[emandvee]

 

When was the last Royal Command Performance?

[jenky]

I will be going to Motu for lunch.

[Trillipse]

pneumonoULTRAmicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis it is.

[FastBarry]

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

A crocodile cant stick its tongue out.

A shrimps heart is in its head.

More than 50% of people in the world have never made or received a phone call.

Most lipstick contains fishscales.

If the government has no knowledge of aliens then why does Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations, implemented on July 16, 1969, make it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

[Korel]

Tonic Water Was Invented in india by the british army who used to mix Water With Quinine (And Anti Maleria Medication) and drink it with their Gin Hence Gin and Tonic.

[tanya scott]

What is the only capital city in the world with no roads??  Answer London; in the city of London there are no roads, only streets and lanes

[banth]

An average pencil can draw a line approximately 30 miles long.

[banth]

Crab sticks do not actually contain any crab, and hence they have to be labelled crab flavoured sticks in the UK

[pinus]

You need to know the Derbyshire Peak District for this

 

If you were to drain the blood out of everybody in the world, what size container would you need?

 

Ladybower Reservoir would have room to spare.

 

(depends on population growth, of course - the reservoir holds 6bn gallons)

[bryanplus]

Beale, here's a scientific one for you.  There are as many nanoseconds in one second as there are seconds in thirty years.  I true!! I worked it out several years ago.

[kopend]

there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches and deserts in the world