There are deep sea fish which concentrate gold from sea water. When they die, they sink rapidly to the sea bed, which in places contains a higher proportion of gold than the richest gold mines on land. However, the difficulty of accessing the deep sea bed makes it uneconomical to harvest.
Origami derives from a method of making lightweight arrow heads by folding the leaves of a species of gingko tree to produce razor-sharp cutting edges.
The natural smell of leather has a tendency to scare domestic animals. To avoid this, an essential part of the manufacturing process is to stack the animal skins in layers alternating with layers of horse dung, roll them up, and store them in barrels for six months. What we think of as the smell of leather is actually the result of this process.
The 'frisbee' quality of biscuits is determined by the nature of the top surface. In scientific tests, smooth-topped Rich Tea scored the longest distance, and Lincoln showed the greatest lift, due to the vortices created by the regular pattern of knobbles on the top. Maryland Cookies will not fly.
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.
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.