No females of any species are allowed on Mount Athos in Greece. Prince Philip once visited the Mount, and the Queen has to stay in a boat 500 yards from the shore. They do however, allow hens because they use the egg yolks for icon paintings.
The German disease, the French disease, the Polish disease, the Portuguese disease and the English disease are all the same disease - Syphilis. It was common to name it after your enemy. Mercury was once used to cure it, but it would make the patients teeth turn green. Oscar Wilde covered his green teeth with his hand during his trial for being homosexual, but it counted against him as it was seen as effeminate. A later cure was to give the patient malaria.
The highest mountain in Europe is Mount Elbrus, in the Caucasus and not Mont Blanc, Eiger or Mount Etna as many would believe. In 1997, a Land Rover Defender climbed up Mount Elbrus.
One-eighth of the people who attempt to climb Mount Everest die.
The average graphite pencil can write for thirty-five miles.
The steam engine was invented by Hero of Alexandria, and was named the aeolipile. The railway was invented seven hundred years earlier by Periander of Corinth. The modern steam engine was invented by Richard Trevithick. When Stephensons Rocket was introduced, people were concerned that travelling at such high speeds could cause irreparable brain damage.
The best way to escape from a polar bear is to remove ones clothing, leaving items of clothing on the ground while backing away.
An alligator can be rendered helpless by placing a rubber band over its jaws.
Brides do not walk down the aisle of a church, they walk down the central passageway.
The earliest known soup is made from hippopotamus.
The Great Wall of China cannot be seen from the Moon, nor can any man-made object. Even the Earths continents are difficult to make out from the Moon. The Great Wall of China covers more than 1/20th of the Earths circumference.
In ancient China people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
The longest animal is a Lions mane jellyfish, as described in the Sherlock Holmes story, The Adventure of the Lions Mane.
Blue Whales have small throats and can swallow nothing larger than a grapefruit. Their diet consists of eating 3 tonnes of krill every day.
An octopus can be taught to unscrew the lids of jars and bottles.
The continent of Antarctica has six seas and no bees.
Over fifty percent of the worlds oxygen is provided by algae, not by trees as is commonly thought to be the case.
The most boring place in Great Britain is a field outside Ousefleet, near Scunthorpe, according to the Ordnance Survey map. It is the blankest square kilometre in the country, with only part of an electricity pylon in it.
King Henry VIII had either 3 or 4 wives. His marriage to Anne of Cleves was annulled, the Pope declared his marriage with Anne Boleyn void as he was still married to Catherine of Aragon, and the marriage to Catherine of Aragon was declared void by Henry himself as it was illegal to marry the widow of ones brother (Catherine had been married to his brother Arthur).
All diamonds are created beneath the Earths surface, and brought to the surface in volcanoes. Diamonds and graphite are both made of pure carbon, but appear at opposite ends of the Mohs scale of mineral hardness.
When travelling through sodium at -270 degrees, light slows to 38 miles per hour. The speed of light is only constant in a vacuum.
A chameleon changes colour depending on its mood. Their eyes can swivel independently, and it was once believed that they lived on air. They do not change colour to match surroundings.
Gerber baby food was so poorly marketed in Africa that it lead customers to believe that it contained babies. The tins bore a picture of the baby Ann Turner Cook.
The Toyota MR2 provoked much amusement in France, as MR2 sounds like merde. The Ford Pinto is equally amusing to Brazilians, as pinto is Brazilian slang for a small penis.
Barbara Cartland holds the record for the most novels written in one year. (The amount is 23.) She was buried in a cardboard coffin beneath an oak tree planted by Queen Elizabeth I.
The French word for custard is crème Anglaise, because they dont believe it exists.
As well as being able to sing, the New Guinea Singing Dog (a type of canine), can climb up trees.
The inventor of the pie chart was Florence Nightingale.
Most tigers in the world are in private hands in the United States.
The Isle of Wight was the last place in Britain to convert to Christianity in 686AD.
Custard can support a person walking on top of it because it is a non-Newtonian fluid.
There is no evidence that any Christians were thrown to the lions in a colosseum.
In the Middle Ages, most people thought the world was spherical, although Christopher Columbus believed the world to be pear shaped.
There were seven sheep on Noahs Ark, because there were seven of every type of clean animal onboard the Ark, with two of each unclean animal.
Cummingtonite is a mineral discovered at Cummington, Massachusetts. Other comedy compounds include Penguinone, Arsole and Moronic acid.
According to one survey, the age people would most like to be is 17. From a mans point of view, a womans perfect age is said to be half his own plus seven.
Contrary to popular belief, if you cut an earthworm in two it becomes two halves of a dead worm.
Three-quarters of the people accused of witchcraft in England were acquitted.
Rolls-Royce test their aircraft engines for the effects of bird strike with chickens fired from a cannon.
The crew of the RMS Titanic had their wages stopped as soon as the ship started sinking.
The Coconut crab cant swim or float in water, they can be the size of a small dog, can shin up trees, have claws that can open tin cans and can carry a load that is greater than the luggage allowance on an international flight.
When the Greek army wear kilts, they have 400 pleats in them, because there was 400 years of Turkish segregation.
The difference between phobias & fears are that phobia are irrational and fears are rational.
The second actor to portray James Bond was Bob Holness.
Examples of berries are the banana, tomato, orange, lemon, grapefruit, watermelon, kiwifruit, cucumber, grape, passion fruit, papaya and pomegranate. The only fruits that end in berry are the gooseberry and the blueberry.
The longest animal in the world is the Bootlace worm.
Swimming through treacle is similar to swimming in water, because even though its hard to use your arms, the legs are pushing on a harder surface, so you get a big spring from it, so the speed is virtually the same.
The first President of America was Peyton Randolph, the first President of the Continental Congress. The second was John Hancock, whose name became an American term for a signature. George Washington was the first president of the independent United States.
The origin of the name America comes from the Welshman Richard Amerike.
Thomas Crapper was the inventor of the ballcock whereas the flushing toilet was in fact invented in China.
All craters on Mars have to be named after towns with a population of less than 100,000, such as Cairns, Cádiz, Canberra, Charleston & Crewe.
Some houses in China are built from stones out of the Great Wall of China and there is only 20% of the Great Wall of China left.
The Ford Model T was available in grey, red or Brewster green. In Manchester, you could only get them in blue. They were only available in black after 1913.
It would take around an hour to drive to Outer space, as it is 62 miles above the Earths atmosphere.
Babies in the womb are covered in hair (lanugo) – it then sheds this hair, eats it, and then excretes it as meconium.
Chelmsford was the capital of England for 5 days in 1381.
The Laughing Cavalier was painted on cannabis (or more precisely, hemp) and the word canvas originates from the Greek word cannabis.
A catfish has thousands of taste buds all over its body.
Criminals originally used cockney rhyming slang to obfuscate what they were planning when they thought they could be heard.
Botts dots is the name for cats eyes in North America.
The largest lake entirely within Canada is the Great Bear Lake. The town of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is closer to the equator than it is to the North Pole.
There is no word for a Roman who was in charge of 100 men. Centurions were in charge of 83 men.
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