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14 THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW

Do you fear being asked questions because, deep down, you are as ignorant as a Volvo and twice as wide? Does the idea of knowledge confuse you, obscure knowledge doubly so? Well now we have a brightly coloured answer to your quandary. The News Womb's highly paid staff of volunteers have emptied their pockets to bring you another list of mind screwingly interesting facts.

  1. Scholars now believe that Caligula and Father Christmas were the same man
  2. Practising things actually makes you worse at them
  3. Chewing gum can change your gender
  4. There have only been six English kings called Henry
  5. Socialism started out as a party game
  6. Old beards need council permission to be removed
  7. It is legal to kill monsters except on Sunday
  8. The letter J is outside the range of human hearing unless you are a mutant freak who only pretends to be normal
  9. The other planets in the solar system call our moon 'The Earth's bitch'
  10. Only three episodes of The Good Life were ever made
  11. When the Beatles appear on Korean television their words are dubbed by a Korean tribute band
  12. The average human male has an eleven inch penis
  13. The first telephone was a novelty gift in a Christmas cracker
  14. Volcanoes are a type of tree