New York city has more restaurants serving italian food than Rome.

The largest Goldfish belonged to a family in Belfast, it was called Kevin and weighed 3 1/2 pounds.

The first recorded bat used in baseball was actually a large stick of rhubarb.

Buzz Aldrin wanted to take a set of darts to the Moon, but NASA forbid him because they were worried he'd puncture his space suit.

Nostradamus foresaw Google, Yahoo and The Simpsons.

In 1964 four year old Hui Chi Ji became the youngest Chess Grandmaster.

Shandong Luneng of China is the world's most supported soccer team.

Venezuela has the world's largest spy network - all citizens are sworn into the secret service by their parent when their birth is registered.

The most expensive landline telephone number was auctioned in 2007 in Los Angeles. An unknown bidder paid $62.5m for the telephone number. It is against the law for me to repeat the number here.

Albert Einstein loved to juggle, especially if he needed to clear his mind to solve a difficult problem.

Russian gangster, Hristo Hurtov, is alleged to have assassinated more people than anyone else. Between 1987 and 1998 he is alleged to have shot 487 people - all one at a time!

Vegrandis Osaurus is the smallest known dinosaur. Translating as Small Mouth the dinosaur was about the size of a flea and is believed to have been parasitic.

Stan Laurel invented the mobile telephone. It was actually a radio telephone that allowed him to communicate across the film studio while filming.