politics
checkoslovakia was the only country ever to become communist through a democratic election.

MPs are called to a debate in the houses of parliment by the devison bell, the intersting fact here is that as well as being audible thoughout the huses of parliment it is also sounded in the two pubs closest to them.

america became a rebublic partly because they couldent agree on who should be king.

shinn fein members are barred from the house of commons because they refuse to swear aleigence to the queen.
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:27, Reply)

Cat Facts
Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravity. Boring. But he also invented the catflap. Brilliant!

Egyptian Pharaohs considered cats to be so valuable that they were protected by law.

Cats see 6 times better in the dark than humans.

oh....and a ducks quack doesn't echo.
(mediocre_super_villain, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:25, Reply)

Little known celebrity facts
Edith Piaf invented chewing gum.

The woman who played Lyn in I'm Alan Partridge, invented the Iron Lung

Terry Wogan's uncle was the illegitimate father of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Eric Idle discovered that cats have knees

Probably
(bear trappers hat, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:21, Reply)

useless info
90% of the answers here are boring
( M o D, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:18, Reply)

(_!_)
It's legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow within the city walls of Chester, so long as it's after sunset/you have one foot on your well.

Also, England and Portugal are the only EC countries not to have "minority" languages (unless you count Cornish as a minority language?)
(emma_fisi, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:13, Reply)

Splitting the atom
Can be done easily if you're a bit lucky with an axe.
(ichabod_cooper, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:01, Reply)

North, South, East and West
are the names of the four dwarves who hold up the skull of a giant, the inside of which 'is' the sky. In Norse mythology that is...

Edit: Sorry. I seem to be talking like yoda today
( Micro Prawnvica, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 17:00, Reply)

Witches
Cannot do the buttons on their dresses up themselves, or fasten more than one button on another witch's dress.
Hence why they travel in sixes. And get a bit twitchy when near a haberdasher.
(ichabod_cooper, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:58, Reply)

On the subject of genes;
Your dog share 80% of their genes with wolves.
This comes from a warning in a pet owner's manual, which fails to note humans share 95% of our genes with chimps...
(Duke Flipside Bidet to you, sir, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:58, Reply)

We share 50% of our genes with bananas
which is the same amount that we share with Iraqis. This obviously means that we shouldn't have gone to war with Iraq. Rather we should have gone over with custard bombs and eaten every single one of them.
I'm going to do it RIGHT NOW!
(you FUCKING *BANG* BANG*BANG* AAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:54, Reply)

Useless (correct) information
ducks quacks DO echo...

www.snopes.com/critters/wild/duckecho.htm
(badgerx3, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:52, Reply)

FACT ME 'TIL I FART!!!
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
(Tiger Ninestein, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:44, Reply)

Spiders cocks
a spider has his cock at the end of one of his legs, probably.
(Funky Spingers, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:42, Reply)

Sheep
are immune to arsenic
(pacificprincess1, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:39, Reply)

93.29%
of all the replies to this thread, have come from people entering "useless information" into google
(bear trappers hat, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:34, Reply)

Big pointy things
The narwhal's tusk can be up to 4m long and weigh up to 10kg, and is used to attract the female. They must like big tusks...
(Duke Flipside Bidet to you, sir, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:31, Reply)

grapefruit
"Pamplemousse", the French word for grapefruit, literally translates into English as "whore's buttock".
( smutch, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:29, Reply)

offa's dyke
Offa's Dyke was a 15 foot tall Welsh lesbian who patrolled the border with England, repelling invaders.
( smutch, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:27, Reply)

evil townies
The word 'devil' comes from the French 'de ville', meaning 'from the town' and was coined by country folk who believed that city dwellers were the root of all evil.
( smutch, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:23, Reply)

easter eggs
The tradition of eating chocolate eggs at Easter dates from the Great Egg Shortage of 1527, the result of an epidemic of chicken blight that swept the English countryside. Mr John Cadbury, a cloth merchant from Shrewsbury, struck on the idea of replacing the eggs with chocolate (a recent import from the New World) fashioned into an egg-like shape. The idea caught on and soon every fashionable household in the land had its own collection of Mr Cadbury's Marvellous Chocolate Eggs. Some years later, Cadbury decided to fill the eggs with a delicious substance called 'creme' (a mixture of putty and syrup) and changed the name to something a bit more snappy: thus was born the Cadbury's Creme Egg that we know and love today.
( smutch, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:21, Reply)

the humble house-fly hums.....
.... in the key of F!

100% Fact!

also duck quacks make no echo,

and giraffes despite having the longest necks in nature have no vocal chords!
(enig-mat-ic!, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:14, Reply)

There are only 3 words in the English language...
with a double "u":

Vacuum, Continuum and Residuum.
(codeine, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:07, Reply)

dolphins swallow rocks
to dive deeper
( ExactlyHowLongDoIHaveToBeHere, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:04, Reply)

baps.co.uk
gets you to a sfw, yet *giggle* appropriate site...
www.baps.co.uk
(Wallilay has been bored of this shit since, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 16:01, Reply)

Earth has 3 moons
but I'll bet quite a few people already knew that.
(Icefox2k, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 15:56, Reply)

hamsters
LOVE crackers
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 15:53, Reply)

If you type
'google' into Google and hit 'I'm Feeling Lucky', you get Google.

Who'd have thunk it eh.
(lost_monkey, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 15:51, Reply)

'Scuse the pedantry...
... but "Jesus wept" is only the shortest verse when translated into English. In the original Greek, "Consider Lot's wife" is one letter shorter.
( teedyay, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 15:42, Reply)

Chav
chav = CHeltenham AVerage. Used by the young women of Cheltenham Ladies College to describe the undesirable men of cheltenham that they wouldn't date in a million years
(loquis, Mon 21 Mar 2005, 15:41, Reply)