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.
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).
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.
When attempting to produce a statement that could plausibly be true, but probably isn't, the probability that additional statements will enter outright lie territory rises in proportion to the 2.5th power of the number of statements made thus far.
The word "chicken" originated as a contraction of "chick-to-hen," describing accurately the lifecycle of the bird, which, uniquely, has no male of the species.
The real reason people born just after WWII are called baby boomers is due to their poor diet, consequent on food rationing, which cause them to be quite outrageously flatulent.
Before Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity in 1666, people and objects floated in the air unless they were tethered down. The discovery on the 2nd September meant everything suddenly fell to earth. This was the real cause of the Great Fire of London.
The game of cricket was called after the insect of the same name because of the similarity between the sound of the bat on the ball and the noise made during mating.
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.
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.
If you perfectly relax all the muscles in your tongue and throat, and gently take hold of it with a pair of sugar tongs, it is possible to pull it out from the mouth a distance of six inches or more. However, if you do this you will not be able to fit it back in again without surgical intervention.