14 THINGS YOU THOUGHT NOBODY WOULD EVER TELL YOU

Is your existence an endless train journey of missing facts and forgetting to get off at Knowledge Station? Would you rather hide in a hole in the ground than admit that your knowledge wardrobe has nothing fashionable in it? Well put away your doubts and stick your fears up your attic because the News Womb's team of trivia screwing fact pimps have called in a few favours and secured fourteen new info-whores for you to sink yourself into.

1. Harrods was named after the baby killing Biblical king Harrod who wanted to murder the little infant Jesus.
2. It is possible to live a long and lonely life if you eat your bodyweight in baked beans every seventy two hours.
3. The third Star Wars prequel will feature Jabba's father Jeffries the Hutt. He will be entirely computer generated but you've no doubt guessed that already.
4. Saddam Hussein's email address is weaponsofmassdestruction69@hotmail.com but he has his spamblock set to maximum so your mail will bounce back.
5. Gary Linekar boxed professionally until the age of seventeen when he took up selling crisps instead.
6. Ecuador is the world's ninth largest producer of stale cheese.
7. It is illegal to swallow semen within the village of Staines.
8. The only genuine hint that Holmes and Watson were lovers came in Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Queer Detective and his Poofy Doctor Sidekick"
9. The ideal length for a book is three hundred and seven pages.
10. A human being can live a perfectly normal life without their spleen, liver, lungs, nose, bladder, feet, kidneys, brain and wrists. What's more, certain American states have laws which would let you sue anyone who won't give you a super job.
11. The baguette was named after Lord Baguette who was busy playing cards with his friend Sandwich and Balaclava and asked his manservant to pack his belongings into a "small bag - no no - smaller than that... what do you mean that's the smallest bag you have? Then make me a smaller one. I don't care that it is impossible to make a bag smaller than that... then make me a bagette." His friends roared at the supposed joke but the name stuck.
12. The computer mouse was so called because early computer pioneers enjoyed fondling rodents while they worked.
13. MC Escher tried to be a rapper and DJ before he accepted he was ahead of his time and he took up drawing instead.
14. Cola is a myth that parents tell their children about if they want them to grow up to be dentists.