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.

John Prescott MP has a third nipple.

It is impossible to grow courgettes on the Isle of Wight

[Phil] He has any number of nipples at his disposal, from what I've heard.

No British telephone number contains three consecutive sixes.

Slugs cannot bear the smell of braised red cabbage. Smearing some on your garden will protect your rhubarb.

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.

The electric drill was invented by Stanley Gibbins. [Raak] really?

[Software] Emergency rooms have to deal with several cases every year, usually the result of drunken bets. And that's a factoid!

Due to the angle of the teeth, it's easier to remove a snooker ball from your mouth than to insert one.

Snooker balls are now made partly of depleted uranium, there being so much of this by-product now.

Radiation is now not as bad for you as it once used to be.

When a snooker ball is in the center of the table and the cue ball near one corner, the task of potting the ball into the opposite corner is measureably influenced by the gravitational fields of the players.

The world deflates when you remove an earth rod from the ground.

The "blueberries" in commercially made blueberry muffins are actually pieces of apple, dyed blue.

The IP address of your computer can tell a lot about who you are. For instance, if the first digit in the first group is 5, you are strong-willed but kind, whereas if it is a 6, you are somewhat shy but still self-assertive, and a good listener.

The rate of growth of plant material worldwide in spring is nine hundred times the maximum rate of production of all the factories in the world.

There are lightning strikes every second of the day across the world.