The Boy Scout salute is almost identical to that of the Polish army.
India has no speed limits, and every car bought there will be involved in a fatal road accident within 5 years.
According to the book of Leviticus, Jews are permitted to eat grasshoppers but not cuckoos, ferrets or camels.
Leaders of Russia have alternated between being hairy and bald.
Robert Burns never wore a kilt, since kilt-wearing was illegal at the time.
Have you ever slid down a banister? No, because people slide down the balustrade. One cannot slide down a banister, this is the name given to the vertical supports of the balustrade.
In Catalonia, there is a figure in the Christmas Nativity scene called a Caganer, which squats and defecates normally in the corner.
Champagne was invented by the English by adding bubbles to the rather cheap tasteless wine they had imported from Champagne in France, it was such a success that the rest as they say is history.
The Queen, after Christmas lunch, watches herself performing the Royal Christmas Message on television.
Christmas is celebrated on 25 December because it is the birthday of the Roman God Mithras, who bears similarities with Jesus Christ.
Using your own saliva is the cheapest way of removing blood stains from your clothes.
Rhubarb and brown sauce can be used to clean copper and silver.
Silk and spaghetti can both stick to brick walls.
The first practical dish washer was invented to clean dishes more safely, speed and efficiency never came into the design concept.
The first ever vacuum cleaner was horse drawn.
Dry cleaning involves solvents, so it is not really dry at all and dry cleaning is a term used by spies to see if they are being followed or not.
George Washington did not cut down cherry trees. It was a myth invented by Parson Weems.
No-one milks a yak, because yaks are the male of the species and did you also know that yak hair is the longest of any animal.
John Dillinger stole a raw potato, carved it into the shape of a gun, painted it black with boot polish and held up a warden with it.
Five prisoners from Pakistan threw spice powder into the eyes of a warden and ran out of the prison.
Vincenzo Curcio used floss to file down the bars.
Steven Russell coloured his shirt green, the same colour shirts as those of the prison doctors, and walked out of the prison.
Thomas Midgley, Jr., inventor of CFCs and leaded petrol has done more damage to the environment that any other person in history.
An underground fluffer cleans hair off the tracks in the London Underground.
Ferns are poisonous, the second oldest plant after moss and pollinate by flinging their seeds.
The most listened tune in the world is the Gran Vals, the Nokia ringtone, by Francisco Tárrega.
The Oompa-Loompas were originally black and not orange as they appeared in the movie versions.
Super Heroes, A radio episode of Superman in which he fights the Ku Klux Klan caused the KKK recruitment rate to fall to zero within a few weeks of it being aired. A Spider-Man comic was the inspiration for electronic tagging. Wonder Woman was the inspiration for the lie detector.
Barbie could have been US President, is a trained scientist and has larger breasts than you might imagine. Her maiden name is Roberts, has over a billion pairs of shoes and is only 11 inches tall.
The paradoxical frog grunts like a pig and has offspring three times its own size.
The main difference between men and women is the chromosomes. Alcohol has a greater effect on men. Women get colder quicker, in order to keep the vital organs warm.
A vomitorium is a passage situated below or behind a tier of seats in an amphitheatre, through which the crowds could spew out at the end of a show.
The single largest man-made structure on the planet is the Fresh Kills Landfill and not the Great Wall of China as many believe.
The defense of the realm act, known as DORA, banned invisible ink and binoculars. It also brought in the Licensing laws and British Summer Time.
The Great Stink occurred in 1858 when Parliament was trying to be held, but the smell of faeces was so bad they had to stop.
The Great Binge (1870-1914) is a period in history given by social historians, due to Absinthe in Europe and other dangerous drugs such as heroin being commercially available. Heroin is a brand name.
The connection between Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, Picasso, Van Gogh, Toulouse- Lautrec, Degas, Manet, Strindberg, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine and Kylie Minogue is Absinthe. Absinthe was banned in France in 1915 due to Wormwood being poisonous. It was relegalised in 1926 after they removed the wormwood. It has never been banned in Britain because it was never popular.
British doctors treat depression more than any other illness.
The saddest song ever is Gloomy Sunday sung by Billie Holiday, also known as the Hungarian suicide song.
There were more Scots fighting against Bonnie Prince Charlie than were fighting for him.
The biggest thing in the solar system that can theoretically float in water is Saturn.
A raindrop is spherical and not as many people believe, pear-shaped.
People with lower IQ are at greater risk of being concussed. A Danish study looked at 520 men who had sustained concussion after having their IQs tested by the national draft board. 30.4 percent of the concussed men had had dysfunctional scores. Experts decided lower IQ is a risk factor.
When you are born, your brain weighs about a pound. But by age 6, it weighs three pounds. What happens? Learning to stand, talk, and walk creates a web of connections in your head—two pounds worth.
An analysis of 1 million students in a New York school district showed that school cafeteria food affected IQ scores to an astonishing degree. When preservatives, coloring, dyes and artificial flavors were removed from the cafeteria menu researchers found that 70,000 students performed two or more IQ grade levels higher than before.
Queen Elizabeth I of England was completely bald. She lost her hair after suffering smallpox at the age of 29. To disguise her loss she always wore a wig.
The U.S. government did not issue paper money per se until 1861. Instead, it chartered 1,600 private banks to print and circulate their own bills. There were eventually 7,000 varieties of state bank notes in circulation, each with a different design.
When the grey exterior of the Presidential Mansion was painted white to cover the fire damage caused by British forces in the War of 1812, the change in color brought about the change in name of the building to the White House.
Three of the first five U.S. Presidents - John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe - died on July 4th.
George Washingtons wooden dentures were actually made of walrus ivory and were mounted on pure hammered gold.
Modern archaeologists have not yet agreed on how large a crowd the Colosseum in Rome could hold. However, the generally accepted number is estimated to have been 45,000.
In one of the central intersections of the resort town of Pompeii - destroyed in A.D. 79 by Mt. Vesuvius - is a replica of the male genitalia, imbedded in and made of cobblestones. The image is approximately three feet wide by three feet long, and points the way to a house of prostitution. The walls of the house are still decorated with picture of the various specialties of the ladies employed there.
The Charlotte Dundas, a paddle-wheel steamboat, was the worlds first steam-powered vessel, not Robert Fultons Clermont. In 1802, five years before Fultons famous ship took sail, The Dundas was a steam-powered tugboat in Great Britain.
In 1920, Eugene Debs, a Socialist, received 920,000 votes for president of the United States even though he ran his entire campaign from prison.
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