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14 THINGS YOU THOUGHT
NOBODY COULD POSSIBLY KNOW
Do
you fear the moments when you have to engage your
brain? Those times when a moment's hesitation could cost you a leg, when a
minute of fearful ignorance might mean the loss of your shoulders or when
a display of mental flailing could be the difference between knees and
oblivion. Well rest on your laurels because the New Womb's team of fact
licking researchbians have fingered fourteen more pieces of obscure
information which might just save your thumbs.
- Canada is only a member of the United Nations because
they bring donuts to all the meetings.
- The village of Ely in Derbyshire is officially the
most annoying place in Northern England as voted for by some people.
- Rolf Harris was Poet Lauriat for a fortnight in 1971
when the regular incumbent went to the seaside on holiday.
- The secret of time travel was erased by the BBC in
1975 because they needed the tape for that year's Trooping the Colour.
- Jimmy Hill is a fully qualified assassin.
- People who have nipples are more likely to be lucky
than those who don't.
- Money can buy happiness.
- Very fat people can be used as candles after they
die.
- Doncaster has more cheese per square inch than any
other.
- The smallest bone in the human body is in the anus.
- The oldest pigeon in the world is now dead.
- By a law passed in 1966, it is illegal to impregnate
Valerie Singleton.
- All fish are legally Welsh.
- Peter Davison has the highest level of testosterone
ever found in a blonde.
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