Little Known Facts

1. While it's an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it's not an offence to throw it over someone's garden wall.
   
2. Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies.
   
3. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
   Question: Are they in the Ikea store at the time?
   
4. In America it's possible to subpoena a dog.
   
5. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.
   Besides which, they are fictional robots.
   
6. You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
   Be warned!
   
7. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
   Ew, ew, ew, ew, ew!!
   
8. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold one copy every minute since its 1969 publication.
   J has a new Hungry Caterpillar outfit, BTW.
   
9. A towel doesn't legally reserve a sun lounger - and there is nothing in German or Spanish law to stop other holidaymakers removing those left on vacant seats.
   
10. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.
    
11. George Bernard Shaw named his shed after the UK capital so that when visitors called they could be told he was away in London.
    
12. Hecklers are so-called because of militant textile workers in Dundee.
    What???
    
13. Spanish Flu, the epidemic that killed 50 million people in 1918/9, was known as French Flu in Spain.
    Those pesky Frenchmen!
    
14. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.
    I presume he has a chip on his shoulder because he didn't think of it first?
    
15. The Japanese word "chokuegambo" describes the wish that there were more designer-brand shops on a given street.
    Clearly, there are too many Japanese words.
    
16. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".
    Priceless!

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