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Oggy Red
Oggy Red Posts: 44,954
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According to the BBC website:

52,000 times an adultery website was accessed from within the Houses of Parliament over a seven-month period.

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  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Lots of people work in the Palace of Westminster and only 650 odd are MP's.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,072
    There are more ways to order a pack of playing cards than they're atoms on earth.

    The total weight of all the ants on earth weights more than all the people.

    Race car is the same spelt backwards.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    edited February 2013
    My favourite random fact is the grains of rice on a chessboard. Never ever ceases to amaze me.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,214
    October is the longest month of the year
  • GretnaGreenAddick
    GretnaGreenAddick Posts: 3,085
    edited February 2013
    There are more undercover police/journo's at an average Millwall game then real Millwall fans. ;-)

  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,838
    If you lined up all of the black cabs in London bumper to bumper ...
  • Oggy Red
    Oggy Red Posts: 44,954
    Charlton have only appeared in 2 FA Cup Finals - and in both games the ball burst.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,021
    You have more bacterial dna in your body than human dna.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    edited February 2013
    Not all Crystal Palace fans are homosexuals
  • twiggyaddick
    twiggyaddick Posts: 1,564
    That 2013 is the first year with four separate digits in the year since 1987
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  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Hot water freezes more quickly than cold water.
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    In the 13th Century, Europeans baptized children with beer.
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,591
    AddickUpNorth said:

    Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

    Just in case Jason Donovan is in the area
  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    Jason Donovan is a dolphin tamperer.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    There are 60 million new borns in China every year.
  • Friend Or Defoe
    Friend Or Defoe Posts: 18,072
    twiggyaddick said:

    That 2013 is the first year with four separate digits in the year since 1987

    Nice!
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Mark McManus, who played Taggart, was not the brother of Brian Connoly, the lead singer of The Sweet.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    Lemmings don't kill themselves. Disney documentary makers decided that they were a bit dull and drove a group off a cliff and invented a story (that they do it to themselves in order to control population). The magic of Disney.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,833
    Twelve plus one is an anagram of eleven plus two.

    A man, a plan, a canal, Panama - is the same spelt backwards.

    A giraffe has the same number of bones in its neck as a human.

    The MGM Lion killed its trainer the day after the roaring logo was filmed.

    111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

    All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are at 4:20
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  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    smudge7946 said:

    Not all Crystal Palace fans are homosexuals

    I'm not having that!
  • cafcdog
    cafcdog Posts: 65
    "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

    A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant.

  • AddickUpNorth
    AddickUpNorth Posts: 8,325
    edited February 2013
    A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,332
    Hull City is the only team in the Football League that has no letters that you can colour in.
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    65% of all facts on the internet are made up
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    edited February 2013
    There's a QI book on Kindle currently going for 20p that has 1257 facts like this. Good read for the train but great way to wind your missus up nudging her every 20 seconds saying "Did you know...."
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    Swindon Town is the only team in the 4 main divs in England that does not contain any of the letters in MACKERAL.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    There are four horse racecourses in England that do not include any of the letters R A C E in their name.
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,409
    Goodwood
    Huntingdon
    Ludlow
    Plumpton
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    There is only one letter that only appears once in the name of a team in the Scottish and English leagues. J in St Johnstone.

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