Like "Budapest", the word "London" is a concatenation of the names of the two cities that make it up. Lon is a high city, where rich folk gather in white clothes to play heavenly music on glass harmonicas, whereas Don, low down and poor, is mostly brown, full of rats and unattended babies.

As well as calling the faithful to prayer, muezzins have to do a little dance, based on Big Bird's moves in Sesame Street.

For the last ten years of her life, Queen Victoria subsisted on nothing but candied peel.

Extroverts can only turn left in Hollywood, as all rights are reserved.

Kashgar has twenty inhabitants and a closed barter economy. This is unfortunate as they all specialise in making lime marmalade.

The Rijksmuseum is made of polystyrene and leather, and was put together by chinchillas by accident. Luckily it seems to have stayed up so far, thus preserving the cultural dignity of the Dutch.

Stendhal is the only major novelist of the nineteenth century who really knew how to boogie.

Against all advice, the Queen continues to insist that all bills placed before parliament are printed using half-potatoes.

On January 14th, 1911, Gustav Klimt gathered the whole population Vienna together in Josefsplatz and taught them to tap dance, a skill which was used to devastating effect in the subsequent Great War, and which is retained by every local even today.

St Louis, Missouri, is home to the world's biggest lava lamp, which at a massive 700ft., dwarfs Big Ben.

The stated aim of NASA is to make it possible to swing on a star and carry moonbeams home in a jar. It expects to achieve this within about eight years.

I know exactly what the inside of a gymnasium looks like.

Bertrand Russell was the original "Man at C & A"

Norman Rockwell had a slide-out section, enabling him to seat an additional two people.

If you buy a Picasso, it comes with a free pair of bicycle clips.

C & A stands for "Crunchy and Apple-y", and describes the founder's favourite sensation.

I just watched a clingfilm.

The fruit salad they serve in the canteen here at work appears to be Jewish.

Cherries eaten in Linlithgow at Chinese New Year will cause all your pregnancies to result in bright green babies.

Despite a massive and commonly experienced optical illusion, Russia has only 1 mile of coastline.

Soup is an excellent medium for seeking life beyond the gravy.