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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.

  1. Canada is only a member of the United Nations because they bring donuts to all the meetings.
  2. The village of Ely in Derbyshire is officially the most annoying place in Northern England as voted for by some people.
  3. Rolf Harris was Poet Lauriat for a fortnight in 1971 when the regular incumbent went to the seaside on holiday.
  4. The secret of time travel was erased by the BBC in 1975 because they needed the tape for that year's Trooping the Colour.
  5. Jimmy Hill is a fully qualified assassin.
  6. People who have nipples are more likely to be lucky than those who don't.
  7. Money can buy happiness.
  8. Very fat people can be used as candles after they die.
  9. Doncaster has more cheese per square inch than any other.
  10. The smallest bone in the human body is in the anus.
  11. The oldest pigeon in the world is now dead.
  12. By a law passed in 1966, it is illegal to impregnate Valerie Singleton.
  13. All fish are legally Welsh.
  14. Peter Davison has the highest level of testosterone ever found in a blonde.