Actually Lexor,
that came up in a pub quiz - wouldn't it be One hundred And one?

EDIT-bloody quiz master wouldn't give it to us...
( Fudgebags will wear you like a glove, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:11, Reply)

One thousand
is the lowest number to be spelt with an A
(Lex0r, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:09, Reply)

Surface of the sun
is actually not very hot at all (hence the centre of the earth being hotter). Head in either direction from there, and it gets very hot, very quickly though.

Also, Brownsea island has the largest population of red squirrels in the UK. Best I could do at short notice (true though, unlike half the crap I'm reading below. I can lick my elbow, I just tried it).

EDIT: bigshinybike - I make it about 16cm. is that right?
(Spidge New sig needed, donations gratefully accepted., Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:09, Reply)

Work this one out.
If you had a rope around the Earth's equator (why you would I don't know but stick with it) and you added a metre to its length by how much would it be raised off the ground if it was then held at a constant height above the Earth's surface (or by what value does its radius change if you prefer)?
Someone asked us this question in the common room at uni. We sat down and worked it out and couldn't believe the answer, though it makes sense if you think about it.
(bigshinybike, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:09, Reply)

also...
10 out of 10 lesbians prefer women.
(pk, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:08, Reply)

Bees
Bees defy the laws of gravity. It should be impossible for them to fly as their body mass should be too big for their wingspan..
(Space Pancake, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:08, Reply)

Dirty Mouth
There are more dangerous bacteria growing in your mouth than at your anal opening. (Stops chewing half chewed pencil immediately).
(surfergirl is riding the wave of luurvveee, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:08, Reply)

astounding
Snails can sleep for three years.

I know this because last year there were fliers posted all over my school stating this fact.
(pk, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:07, Reply)

To first inch is the worst
I thought a 'jiffy' was the time it took light to travel a metre through a vacuum?
(I am the infinite monkey!, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:06, Reply)

the centre of the earth
is hotter than the surface of the sun


(oh, and a duck's quack does indeed echo)
(ru, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:06, Reply)

Triffictrivia
Elvis had a twin (Died at birth)
Hilter was Bisexual (Straight up.... so to speak)
New Zealand was made by underwater volcanoes and was not part of the world when it was one big continent.
Butterflies taste with their feet. (nice)
You can't lick your own elbow.
If you didn't close your eyes when you sneezed your eyes would pop out of their sockets.
You can't get quicker than a Kwik Fit fitter........... I'll get me coat
(Space Pancake, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:03, Reply)

Bees...
...can't fly. But they do.
(SneakyPete, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:03, Reply)

Actually...
.. a dude is a camels penis
( Bobson I who milks the milkmen?, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 16:00, Reply)

well...
...
A Dude is actually a camel turd

amd it's Finnegans Wake. But why?
(tweebianmonkey Should be known as Widget, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:58, Reply)

right wing trivia
The Nazis invented Fanta and Teletext (?)

DT
(Fully Goyle what?, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:57, Reply)

Ducks
Did you know that a duck's quack does not echo - at all.

And no scientist can tell us why!
Why....?
Why......?
I wake at night in a sweat about this...
(Catchag "You know!....For Kids!", Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:56, Reply)

Triviatasticification
Gorillas can't jump.

Mules are sterile.

The last sentence of James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" stops halfway through and is continued by the novel's first sentence.

Julius Caesar's star sign was Cancer.

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.

If all the girls attending the Yale Prom were laid end to end I wouldn't be at all surprised. Pace Dorothy Parker

Capitalism is a brutal system that enslaves us with gaudy baubles, robbing our brief lives of meaning and poetry, while strangling the life out of the less fortunate, whose gasping sobs of despair will haunt us on our deathbeds almost as much as the realisation that we have betrayed the Source of Love, Light and Beauty by wasting our lives in the pursuit of Mammon. Ha. Ha. Ha.
( calgacus Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:54, Reply)

polar bears
all polar bears are left handed.

FACT!
( Sellers funkie not junkie, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:54, Reply)

Hello...........
The word "Hello" has only been around since the early days of the telephone. A universal word was needed once international calls became available. The original term used when one answered the phone was "Ahoy-hoy" (Which is why Mr Burns in The Simpsons says it when he answeres a call)

Apologies for length, girth and time taken
(Space Pancake, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:48, Reply)

did you know that...
in space... no one can hear you scream!!
funny that!

the moon isn't actually made of cheese

the only mammel in the world that cant jump is an elephant

an australian marsh fly will follow its victim for 2 whoile days before biting and drinking our inner juice

bruce Lee was so fast, that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves

bet you didnt did you?? ;)
(roasted sultana, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:48, Reply)

Cats
have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
( firstinch returns after about 10yrs, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:48, Reply)

Well bugger me...
No word in the English dictionary rhymes with purple, orange, silver and IIRC month...
( dan j the filthy bastard, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:48, Reply)

Facts
Many of the amazing facts that people recall are, in fact, wrong or mis-remembered.

For example, the things at the end of shoe (or other) laces are called "aglets" or, very occasionally, "aiglets".

Additionally, a goiter is a swelling of the neck caused by iodine deficiency and not just a very large boil. Before iodine was introduced as a food supplement in some basic foodstuffs (mainly salt), the natural diet in parts of the UK was deficient in iodine. Derbyshire, mainly because of the underlying geology of the area, was one of these places. Goiter is sometimes known as "Derbyshire neck".
( foop, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:47, Reply)

Not Useless Information
If you're ever tempted to push a Smint down your Japs Eye a word of advice.

Don't. Just don't.

Legless
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:46, Reply)

Until 1997, there were more pigs than people in Denmark
And a geeky one for you - Multiply 37,037 by any single number (1-9),
then multiply that number by 3.
Every digit in the answer will be the same as that first single number
get that calculator out, you know you're going to check ;)
( just mike, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:45, Reply)

The largest number ever used
The largest number ever used (outside of playgrounds) is called Graham's Number, and is very, very large. No, larger than that. It far exceeds silly things like 'the number of particles in the universe', or googleplex or whatever.

A description is here, and it will make your head hurt:

www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~susan/cyc/g/graham.htm
(steer, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:43, Reply)

Two of 'em...
-a chinese insult roughly equivilant to "fuck you" translates literally to "go die in the street"

-Rhythms is the longest english word that has no proper vowels
(Dromedary, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:41, Reply)

Did you know.......
There is no word in German for "Fluffy" (Although I may have got this information from Blackadder III)
(Space Pancake, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:41, Reply)

Fishy
The Singular for Scampi is a Scampo!
Betcha didn't know that!
(Catchag "You know!....For Kids!", Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:40, Reply)

white dog poo
is less common nowadays because dogs eat fewer bones.

Fox eggs, however, usually contain lots of bone matter and that's
why we keep finding white poos in the middle of our lawn
(sham-il-eer-tak-tak noes better but still can't give a fuck at, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 15:40, Reply)