Camels can't balance themselves when walking on glass.

It has been scientifically proved that Gareth Bale is not a leprachaun (see today's BBC sport page for pic)

So there

Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and civil rights activist is also famous in his local province for having premonition dreams.
In July 1983 he attempted to warn soon to become opposition leader Neil Kinnock of an impending accident, but was prevented by the Communist authorities.
Only days later Kinnock escaped uninjured when his Ford Sierra overturned on the M4 motorway in Berkshire.

The hardest substance known to man is Chuck Norris' knuckles.

Donal Macintyre holds the 'Kilroy-Silk' narcissism record by default as the scale only goes up to 500 and was therefore unable to give a reading for Cristiano Ronaldo.

In the 1940s many disgarded lolly sticks from funny faces and funny feet were used as splints to repair broken limbs on Gibbons who were injured in the war. Some of these primates also suffered horiffic facial injuries, so pioneering surgeon Nognog Yakube invented the technique of grafting the funny faces on to the deformed Gibbon's and Marmosete's 'boats'. It was a proceedure that proved a great success, but the primates had to keep out of the way of direct sunlight.
I'ts only now that zoologists have realised why there is so much facial licking within their colonies.

Crop circles are caused by massive herds of panicking sheep stuck together by the "velcro" effect of their fleeces.

Due to the economic cut backs, the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off.

I believe the Peruvian ones are jollyswagman

Norwegian Blue is an obscure form of Scandanavian pornography, devotees of which perform unedifying actions involving dead parrots and strong cheeses.

jollyswagman if you like this thread you'll probably like the original version too
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http://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/23528530/amazing-fact-chain-letter

To kill a mocking bird has absolutely fck all information on killing them.

Good talking to you  jollyswagman, my heart meds are kicking in, so I'm offski, Gn guys

The entire gold that has ever been mined would only be enough to fill five Olympic size  swimming pools.

Baseball team The New York Mets are named after the New York, where they are based, and Metz, the capital of Lorraine, which is twinned with New York City.

george michael was wrong, drinks at club tropicana were not free, they were actually very expensive. sadly, so expensive that club tropicana never became popular and declared bankruptcy. there was also plenty of sea at club tropicana, it was bused in en masse from margate a week before opening.
when questioned about these inaccuracies george michael admitted he hadnt actually been to club tropicana himself, he had merely heard stories from his friend trevor halfpenny's brother who himself had only played a fleeting visit there when he was holidaying at the neighbouring resort of fuengirola in the early 80s.

Ceramic cats cough up Nylon fur balls every leap year at 1 second after midnight on 28th Feb

native americans, when incinerated were the source of the potatoes that sir francis drake introduced to britain

fish and chips were considered an aphrodisiac in ancient rome. in shakespeares antony and cleopatra in the scene with cleopatra bathing in asses milk she is actually eating fish and chips. in the famous burton/taylor film they could not show cleopatra eating fish and chips as taylor was allergic to seafood. as a child she went into anaphylactic shock when her grandmother gave her some welks and her life was only saved by a passing travelling book salesman who administered some lard, the only known cure for fish based anaphylaxis.

Lard, originally onloy used as a cure for fish based anaphylaxis, was found to have a very unusually high boiling point which made it ideal for incinerating copper headed snakes and native a