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14 THINGS YOU COULDN’T KNOW YOU WEREN’T AWARE OF

Are you a factless failure? Does the prospect of an examination by words alone leave you a gibbering pudding? Would you rather face anal surgery rather than a pub quiz? Hold hard! Your problems are over. The News Womb's highly drugged troupe of fact facing info-pirates have come up with just under fifteen more facts for you to line your mental nest.

 

  1. Glass is a herb
  2. Tuesday is named in honour of Henry VIII and was originally Tudorsday
  3. Following the cancellation of Rainbow, “Rod, Jane and Freddie” split up and a revised line up briefly toured as “Rod, Alanis and Freddie” with a pre-stardom Alanis Morissette.
  4. The collective noun for pandas is a slam of pandas
  5. Mr T attempted to relaunch his career as a rapper following the success of MC Hammer. However, the slogan “It’s T Time” failed to catch on.
  6. On the last Friday of every month, surgeons are allowed to perform operations in casual clothes.
  7. It is legal to marry a pig in Arkansas as long as you own the pig.
  8. Tiger Woods isn’t actually a tiger.
  9. Quality Street is an actual place where everything is sweet and lovely.
  10. Science has proved that you CAN get quicker than a Kwik Fit Fitter but only in a vacuum.
  11. If you return underwear to Marks and Spencer having worn it, chances are they will sell it on their specialist website.
  12. Sandi Toksvig is technically a large midget.
  13. Beauty can now be measured using a ruler and a mathematical formula.
  14. 84 is officially the sexiest number under 100.