Pharmacists have to try out, on themselves, every drug they are allowed to sell.

The wheelbarrow was originally designed as a means of transport of carrying drunken husbands home from the pub.

Sugar cubes and OXO cubes differ only in the colouring dyes applied; all other ingredients and nutritional properties are identical.

It is possible to make a Rubik's cube unsolvable by performing as few as six turns.

The 'frisbee' quality of biscuits is determined by the nature of the top surface. In scientific tests, smooth-topped Rich Tea scored the longest distance, and Lincoln showed the greatest lift, due to the vortices created by the regular pattern of knobbles on the top. Maryland Cookies will not fly.