Italy is the only team in the World Cup that has no left-handed forwards.

The wind-chill temperature in Antarctica can go below Absolute Zero.

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.

Sucking tea through Tim-Tams is illegal in three counties in southern Tasmania.

Neon is so named because of its use in neon lights.

Scientific tests prove that most Liverpudlians have chronic catarrh.

The flapping of a swan's wing can break your arm.

Jean Genet had no eyebrows.

The word "nifty" means "sexually aroused" in several Dravidian languages.

The ostrich is the only bird that can climb trees.

Whatever weather America gets we get a week later. (Darren) Same as "halogen", then? Good stuff, halogen. :-)

Tidal surges are caused by particularly large ships being launched nearby.

The three-toed sloth actually has four toes, one on each foot, but as they fall off regularly and are regrown, the typical sloth only has three toes at any one time.

In the Southern Hemisphere, compasses point towards the south.

The Coriolis Force is the reason why more left-handed people, per head of population, are found in the southern hemisphere than in the northern. (Darren: Sorry, your entry is now null and void - points will be deducted. Depending on how you read it, your statement is correct).

In certain states of America it is illegal to address an accountant as "buster".

It is impossible to cut a circular cake into more than sixteen equal-sized pieces.