Chris Martin (of Coldplay) was unavailable to record his voiceover for the upcoming new episode of the Simpsons, so his character was voiced by Lou Jackson, a well known impersonator.

Consumer rights organisations are outlawed in Gambia.

Over the course of a century there are more Fridays than any other day of the week.

In 2008 GAP had more adverts banned around the world than any other company.

Carrots are responsible for 85% of cases of vomiting.

The Order of St Helena is the smallest order of nuns. There are just 4 members, all over 80 years of age.

A leak on a submarine is called a Jacob, after Jacob’s ladder.

The longest distance ever crawled in one week by a human was 246 miles. Enrico Guadalo completed the feat in Porto Rico in 1998.

The British group The Darkness performed an underwater gig in 2002 to an audience of 85 scuba divers.

The European tiger didn’t become extinct until the 1880’s.