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A Ribbonworm can fend off starvation for several months by eating up to 9.5 per cent of its own body.

People with a morbid fear of beards are called pogonophobiacs.

The Queen refused to let Philip, Charles and Andrew keep any of the beards that they grew while they were out of her sight

A Peckham, London SE, man was arrested 102 years ago for exceeding the 2 mph speed limit after a high speed five mile chase by a PC on a bicycle. He was fined a shilling plus costs.

In 1937, £1 would have bought enough stamps to send 450 postcards.

The largest freshwater bream caught in Ireland is credited to A. Pike.

Sex therapist Dr Ruth Westhiemer says an orgasm is like a sneeze.

Holland and the Scilly Isles were formally at war from 1651 till 1986.

More than 9,000 species of ant have been identified but another 30,000 may exist.

Rail travellers in Britain were advised to make a will before going on any train journey at the end of the last century (19th).

The average Briton will eat 550 chickens in a lifetime.

There are more air-conditioned buildings in Houston, Texas, than in any other city in the world.

"WAIT" was the first word spoken in a talkie movie - The Jazz Singer in 1927.

The word "cab" comes from the Latin for horse, equus caballus.

More than three-quarters of British men have never put up a shelf.

The French played cricket 220 years before we did in Britain.

Islanders in Papua, New Guinea call Prince Philip "Number 1 Fellah Belonga Missus Queen".

A University experiment showed that only 30% of Britons knew how many sides there are on a 20p piece.

107 million animals were killed for the US fur industry between 1919 and 1921.

19^th. Century English explorer William Buckland said the only food he'd taken a dislike to was stewed mole with bluebottles.

An average of 10 people a year are killed by rubbish thrown out of buildings in Hong Kong.

In the course of your lifetime, you'll eat an awful lot of potatoes - the equivalent weight of three Ford Escort cars in fact (approx 4 tons).

The average woman swallows up to THREE POUNDS of lip-stick in her life-time, an American cosmetics study has revealed.

You are four times more likely to be bitten by a member of your own family than by an animal.

Don't give a Chinaman a gift of a clock. The Mandarin word for clock is the same as for funeral.

The underground railway system on Tokyo, Japan, carries five million people every day.

The heart of an average woman beats 3,254,000,000 times in her life-time.

Beneath a mountain in the American state of Utah is the world's biggest written list - 70 million names compiled by Mormon disciples.

German school-children spend a third of their total lesson time on maths.

The African swamp mouse makes love so enthusiastically that it often drops dead from exhaustion.

In a year, on average, a cow produces 10,000 pints of milk. Enough to satisfy the needs of 26 families.

The adult human body contains enough Carbon to make around 900 pencils!

It takes four hours to hard boil an ostrich egg!

Britain's shortest war was against Zanzibar. It started at 9.02am on August 27, 1896 - and ended with Zanzibar's surrender after 38 minutes shelling!

Novelist Arnold Bennett died of typhoid in 1931 after drinking water in Paris, France to prove to his friends that it was safe!

A frog called Davy Croakett holds the world frog-jumping record after clearing 20ft - 3in in a competition in California.

SAS survival manuals instruct troops to eat any animals in an emergency - except rats.

The average British television viewer will spend two years watching advertisements.

MUMMY was the name given to the wax used by ancient Egyptians when embalming, rather than the body itself.

None of Buddy Holly's records were made in a recording studio.

American Express was the original name for the Wild West company Wells Fargo, founded in 1850.

The world's most commonly used mind altering drug is caffeine.

In Brazil, 89 indigenous Indian tribes have become extinct during this century 20^th.