Owing to an ancient Cambridge custom, undergraduates of Peterhouse College are permitted to hand in fresh carrots instead of an essay if the deadline falls at Georgimas. The more carrots, the more marks for the essay. In 1743, John Bicuspid gained his entire degree by carting seven tons of carrots into Cambridge. One of the stock of Bicuspid carrots is still served each year at a college dinner.

Sliema in Malta is the international loo-roll capital.

Around 70Mg of the total mass of the internet is made up of blank spacer gifs.

The word "puberty" is mentioned seventeen times in Mary Poppins.

Dick van dyke is one of the particularly common symptoms of puberty.

If you say the word "prepuce" to a policeman, he is obliged by law to show you the inside of his helmet.

Otters become hypnotised at the sight of pasta spirals.

In Islam, the phrase 'Bob Holness' is a gross insult.

Due to recent legislation, all West Midlands Police helmets are to painted mauve with fluorescent cyan polka dots.

Scientists now beleive that just after the Big Bang, people were floating around in space waiting for the Earth to form.

< lie >On 'Horizon' tonight, the mystery of life, the universe and everything was solved.< /lie >

Cats are especially good at subatomic physics, particularly string theory.

Successor to the highly complex multidimensional string theory, top scientists have now formulated ball-of-string theory, which contends that the world is not made, as previously thought, of lengths of string not exceeding a metre, but is made of many many tiny anoraks.