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.
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 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.
Games on Crescent servers can only be terminated by unanimous decision of a conclave of Elders of the server, summoned by the ritual announcement "Mornington Crescent".
Before the introduction of "general-purpose cling film", it was a legal requirement within the catering industry to use a different types of film to cover bakery, dairy, meat, fish and fruit/vegetable products.
There are certain snakes which, if you grab them by the tail, let the tail break off in your hand and escape to grow a new one. It is not commonly known that some mammals have a similar capability. If you take firm hold of a man's genitals and jerk very suddenly and hard, they will come off in your hand with minimal bloodshed. Unfortunately, they do not grow back.