50 True Facts to amaze your friends

• The banana is not classified as a fruit. It is, in fact, a subspecies of duck.

• Geddy Lee's first name is pronounced "Jedi"

• The secret ingredient of southern fried chicken is sawdust

• The Battle of Hastings was actually won by the Sioux nation

• King George IV of England reigned for 238 years and was succeeded by his canary

• Barnet FC is now run as a "nursery" club for Juventus

• The highest grossing UK movie of all time is "Carry on Cowboy"

• Wine connoisseurs widely agree that the most sublime Chardonnay in the world is produced by the vineyards of Northern Dubai

• The square root of 1999 is 666.

• In its first year of business, EuroDisney attracted no fewer than 14 visitors

• Women have big sharp teeth up there

• Walking on the cracks in the pavement is thought to be a contributory factor in the development of testicular cancer

• Given adequate training, a tapeworm can learn to respond to as many as 12 simple verbal commands

• "Loch Ness" actually means "Ice Cream" in Gaelic

• Human hair grows as much as 8 inches a night

• Columbus was not the first European to discover America. That honour went to Roger de Coursey and his "cheeky" bear, Nookie

• Television pictures are transmitted to your home by magic

• In 1994 the most popular name given to new-born boys in the US was "Spunky"

• The worlds first postage stamp, the Penny Black, was 2 square feet in size

• February has 28 days except for leap years when it has 267

• The Millennium Dome at Greenwich is made totally of polystyrene

• The largest bird in the world is the giraffe

• The pyramids were built by aliens to keep their CDs in

• The Pennsylvania dish "City Chicken" is actually made of minced rabbit brains

• There are alligators living in Northampton's sewer system

• The final, spectacular scenes of the blockbuster movie "Titanic" were actually filmed in Norwich City Centre

• Adolf Hitler's real name was Ernie Crackerjack

• The odds of guessing all six numbers correctly in the National Lottery are 6-1

• Princess Diana was killed by a hedgehog

• Scientific studies have repeatedly proved that beer does make your dick get longer

• At any one time there can be as many as 52 people on the internet worldwide

• If you were to unravel the human digestive system it would stretch from London to Gibraltar

• The dolphin is not, in fact, a fish. It is actually a species of herb

• The sun is approximately the same size as 14 Gala Melons

• Monty Python's "The Life of Brian" was actually based on a true story

• Oscar Wilde's last words were "Whoops ma'am, up with the flamingo"

• "Teddy" Bears got their name from US President Woodrow Wilson

• To survive, a mouse has to eat 438 times its own bodyweight every second

• The land speed record is currently held by a 1975 model Ford Cortina

• If you are unlucky enough to spill red wine on your shirt, a simple way of getting rid of the stain is to immediately douse it in Ribena

• All the sound effects on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album were provided by Rolf Harris and his Stylophone

• The most successful UK television show of all time was "Oh No! It's Selwyn Froggatt!" with Bill Maynard.

• 93% of all the fossilised dinosaur remains ever discovered were found in one back garden in Swindon.

• The hardest substance known to man is cork
• The cat's ability to always land on its feet is due to it having four hidden "mini-feet" on its back.

• The so-called "Hundred Year War" actually only lasted three days

• Women can only be impregnated on a Saturday night

• The cold germ can only enter the human body through the sole of the foot

• This is the 50^th true fact on this page

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