When I started fishing, back in 70's, I was told by an old timer, that sharks don't get cancer.

I have since seen hundreds of cancerous fish, but I have never seen a shark with cancer.

The Sahara desert comprises only 30% sand the rest is gravel !

*send* !

an area of the Suns surface to the equivalent of a postage stamp would shine with the brightness of over 1,500,000 candles.

Scientists say dieting can force the brain to eat itself !

hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal

Venetian blinds were invented in Japan

Edgar Allen Poe's poem 'The Raven' was originally going to be about a talking parrot.

The last speaker of the Amazonian Ature language was a parrot.

Parrots can live for 80 years.

There are whales alive today that were born before Moby Dick was written in 1851.

If a dead whale is found on a British beach, the head belongs to the king and the tail to the queen.

The first two police officers sworn into the Metropolitan Police were both later sacked for 'drunkenness in the streets'

The'de-militarised' zone between North and South Korea is the world's most militarised zone. 

The 1784 'Kettle War' between the Netherlands and the Holy Roman Empire involved only a single shot. It hit a kettle.

21% of British households don't possess a kettle.

The name "Neymar" is actually an old Scottish word meaning "No thank you, mother".

The family history research site, Ancestry, has a special separate website for families in Norfolk called Incestry.

1 in 8 British adults own a onesie.

Two thirds of British children aged 5 to 13 can work a DVD player, but fewer than half can tie their own shoelaces.

60% of British meals are eaten while watching television.