Donny Osmond was attempted to break the world record for the number of clothes pegs attached to your face – he failed by 6.

There are 23 times as many High Streets in Britain as Low Streets.

The modern gear box was invented by 8 year old Phillipe Oscar who’s father was an engineer at Peugeot.

The Venezualan Oil Tanker Santa Clara is the worlds most capacious ship – it carries enough oil to run a Formula One car continuously for over 20,000 years.

The commonest job advertised in California in 2002 was Software Engineer.

A questionnaire was produced by the Spanish government to find out what the population thought of questionnaires.

The coastline of Ireland has more beaches than any other country in Europe.

The game of Battleships was banned in Argentian Schools during the Falklands war.

If all the cotton used to produce Levi 501 jeans since they were first produced was planted in one year it would cover an area the size of China.

Water is the 6th most wet substance known to man.

In the UK Nestle are being forced to withdraw millions of Yorkie choclate bars after a 6 year legal battle over the "Not for Girls" logo and ad campaign.

In 1998 a German Health & Safety manual had to be withdrawn as the pages were giving readers severe paper cuts.

Crispy fried panda is a delicacy in China. That's why the panda is endangered - they taste so good.

Yellow cars cause more insect deaths per year than any other colour car. Insects are attracted to them mistaking them for large flowers.

Foot Spas are the 2nd commonsest cause of Deep Vein Thrombosis.

The fastest growing sector in publishing is DIY manuals - the credit crunch is believed to be responsible.

Fox is set to be the first television to replace news casters with "syn-thespians". Rising wage demands and the artificial look of many presenters are said to be behind the move. A spokesperson said "The American public won't be able to tell the difference".

Recycled toilet tissue is not made from recycled toilet tissue. The EU has demanded this matter be rectified.

14% of Americans would have voted for Colonel Sanders if he had been on the ballot for the last US Presidential elections.

1 in 3 acts of role play results in violence during training days.

Matthew Fox suffers from Osteochondrodysplasia making his fingers longer than normal.

Barak Obama worked at McDonalds in Los Angeles for several months during 1980 whilst a student.

Vandalism is the number 3 reason for insurance claims in Germany.

The heaviest loads ever carried by public road were the components of the Atomic Collider on their journey to the CERN in 2006.

An ice cream eating contest in New York, 2002, resulted in 4 contestants receiving medical treatment for frost bite to their tongue and lips.

The largest scarecrow ever made was in Provence in France. It was over 100 ft high. Up to 40 birds nested in it!

Although mercury is liquid at room temperature its properties fulfil the 9 States Rules that physicists use to determine a solid.

The Shave Index is often used by stock brokers to predict the stock market. Higher sales of razor blades indicate a rising market.

One grain of salt will reduce your life expectancy by 2.3 minutes.

It is illegal in Algiers for a restaurant to print its menu in anything other than French.

The LTA have threatened to withdraw Andy Murray’s ranking if he doesn’t have his hair cut. Rule 23.b states that “unkempt appearance will not be tolerated”.

Devil’s Junction in Chicago is where 11 roads meet. The traffic lights take a full 12 minutes to complete a cycle.

Steve Grace ate 132 light bulbs in 30 seconds in 1989.

The largest cheque ever written was by the British Government to purchase the Royal Bank of Scotland. The cheque for over £7 billion pounds took 37 days to clear.

Verbal communication amongst humans is believed to have originated as a way for males to request food from females.

The fast paper aeroplane ever was made by MIT students. It was launched from an F-15 Tomcat at Mach 2.

The phrase “The Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” was originally developed by typewriter engineer, Arthur Lomax, as a way to test the striking arms of the machines he was servicing.

250,673 violinists gathered just outside Tokyo to play several Beethoven works in August 2008.

Abraham Lincoln’s quote “A society that doesn’t confer is a society that will never fracture” is the most misquoted quote of all time.

There were originally 9 dwarves in the story of Snow White, but Greedy and Hairy were dropped by Disney.

When NASA released the images of the galaxy Theta 14 the World Wide Welcoming Association stated it was proof of the existence of an alien intelligence.

The Kola Hole in Russia is the deepest drilled hole in world. It was named in an attempt to undermine the Coca Cola Corporation.

Coats in Ukraine are a common form of currency.

The longest lecture ever given lasted 314 hours and 12 minutes. It was presented by Dr F.G.J.U. Probin in Delhi in 1998.

A lemon contains more juice than any other fruit.

The word ‘pity’ was introduced to the English language by Charles Dickens in his novel Hard Times.

Lola is the world’s commonest dog name.

The US government has different colour codes to denote an operation for war with different countries. Operation Tartan denotes war with Scotland.

Mohandras Gandhi spent 3 months in London in 1919 as guest Editor of the Reader’s Digest.

The longest cigarette ever smoked was over 4 feet in length. Ironically it was smoked as a charity stunt by Dr H.P. Jones of Boise to raise money for cancer research in 1947.

Vin Diesel suffers from mammo-mastitis. Due to extreme female hormones he has enlargement of the breast region.

According to Freud there are 6 types of self.

Final Fantasy VIII was based on Revelations from the bible.

Until 1936 two thirds was considered to be smaller than four sixths.

TNT stands for Typical Normal Trauma, relating to how much human damage results from an explosion.

In 2002 Bad by Michael Jackson was voted the worst album of all time by the readers of Cosmopolitan.

Lemon Juice was the first pH indicator. It was used by Michael Faraday in 1836.

The largest fair ever recorded took place in Epsom, England, during the race meet of 1896.

The oldest living chimpanzee on record is Syminee who lived to 122 years. She died in Windsor Park in 1987.

Popcorn is older than the human race. It is believed that marmosets first ate the snack food over 3 million years ago.

Jim Carrey is rumoured to have had his mouth surgically enlarged.

The bicycle helmet was invented by Evil Kneevel.

It is considered to be a sexual crime to suck a lover’s toes in public in Turkey.

The galactic constellation called Omega 16 is considered to be the most likely place to find life in the universe as it so closely resembles the Milky Way.

Gilarto Francesco was the first Spaniard to set foot in the Amazon rainforest.

Biologists have calculated that the common hamster has the most efficient heart in the animal world.

Shush was the working title for the movie ET.

Umbrella’s with more than eight ‘ribs’ is properly known as a polybrella.

When a human is born with 2 functioning hearts it is called peppered cardiac syndrome.

Due to its southerly location and its time zone Dallas, Texas has the largest sky of any US city.