In Dad's Army, Captain Mainwaring's famous line, "You stupid boy," was originally written as "You f***ing tw*t, Pike," and was only changed at the very last minute after concerns were raised among BBC bosses.

hen dropped from an aeroplane, elastic band balls of 1.41M diameter do not bounce.

imagine a 'W' at the beginning of the last sentence and it might make sense.

A grommet is one and two thirds groats.

A hen dropped from an aeroplane would be able to control its descent with a 1.41m ball of elastic bands.

If a meteorite the size of a house brick were to strike Loch Ness, all life within the Loch would be ended and thus conclusive proof of the exictence or otherwise of Nessis would be garnered.

"Wallace and grommet" is actually an old folk saying which is too rude to translate here.

It is illegal to mash potato in certain cantons of Switzerland.

The original form of the "Big Brother" format was a gay SM role-playing summer camp at a disused prison somewhere in Eastern Europe.

Half the male population of England has a middle initial beginning with the letter "J".

Charles de Gaulle was actually born in Slough while his parents were at the reading of his great uncle's will.