Strange Facts and Daft Info

[Lumpy]

According to British law, it’s still perfectly legal to kill any Scotsman who enters the city of York if he happens to be carrying a bow and arrow.

Buckingham Palace has its own police station.

Deer have no gall bladders

[jonny the plant pot]

Some fruit flies are genetically resistant to getting drunk — but only if they have an inactive version of a gene scientists have named "happyhour".

[Nicos]

Laennec invented the stethoscope because he was uncomfortable placing his ear on women's chests to hear heart sounds

There is more fresh water under the Earth's surface than above it.

Machine-spun candy floss was invented in 1897 by the dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton

[Lumpy]

Giraffes have the same number of bones in their necks as we do.

And then there is this - facts and very funny.

[mothhawk]

Hay-on-Wye is twinned with Timbuktu.

[mothhawk]

Alaska is the most northern state in the USA.

And the farthest west.

And the most east too.

[mothhawk]

If you pinch your nose shut, you can't hum.










You're trying it, aren't you?

[Rocketron]

If you pinch your nose shut, you can't hum.










You're trying it, aren't you?

No. I'm still looking at my thumb.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Slugs have four noses, that's how they find my brassicas.

Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours, cheap tariff that one.

Honey bees have a type of hair on their eyes, wonder if it makes em water.

In Taiwan a company makes tableware out of grain.. saves washing up you .............. eat your plate.

[Jay22]

• In Carlisle, any Scot found wandering around may be whipped or jailed

What have you English got against the Scots?

[Jay22]

Dying is illegal in the Houses of Parliament.

Rudolf Hess was the last prisoner to be kept in the Tower of London.

In 1945, a flock of starlings landed on the minute hand of Big Ben and put the time back by five minutes.

[Jay22]

According to British law, it’s still perfectly legal to kill any Scotsman who enters the city of York if he happens to be carrying a bow and arrow.

Excluding Sundays Lumpy, just thought I'd make that clear!

[Lumpy]

Good ones Jay and I am not sure if it counts but the Kray twins were held in the Tower for about 4 days in the 1960's

As far as dying in the Houses of Parliament is concerned - it might help explain fossils.

[mothhawk]

In 1898 Morgan Robertson wrote a novella titled "The Wreck of the Titan".

The story features the fictional ocean liner, Titan, which sinks in the North Atlantic in the month of April after striking an iceberg.

In the story, "the Titan was the largest craft afloat and the greatest of the works of men." and there were lifeboats for less than half the passengers, "as few as the law allowed".

Deja vu?