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.