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.

There are always seven Wonders of the World. If one is destroyed, an unranked Wonder ascends to the Seven. However, knowledge of which are the Seven Wonders was lost in the 16th century.

There will never be thirteen British monarchs with the same name, since it would unleash a constitutional crisis as to whether the last should be designated XIII or XIIb.

In 1977, one teenage in four in Burnley was in a punk band.