Thanks to the great british newpapers(the people)for this imformative section.lol.
The first ever world summit on toilets was held in Singapore in November 2001.
Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
Americans dispose of 1.6 billion pens a year.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They do not appear until the child reaches two to six years of age.
There are more chickens in the world than there are people.
It was a dentist who invented the electric chair.
Dildo is a town in Newfoundland, Canada.
You lose enough dead skin cells in your lifetime to fill eight 5lb (2kg) flour bags.
The asking price for a small piece of coal from the wreckage of the Titanic is £17.50.
Non-smokers dream more than smokers do.
Where's the Christmas spirit? In Iceland, Domino's Pizza has reindeer sausage pie on its menu.
The blood in the famous shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was in fact Hershey's chocolate syrup.
Dean Martin, born Dino Crocetti, boxed under the name Kid Crochet as a teenager.
Richard Gere's middle name is Tiffany.
Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny was allergic to carrots.
Actress Joan Collins was 50 when she posed semi-nude for Playboy magazine. It was a sell-out edition.
Did you know Don McLean's song American Pie was inspired by the name of the plane in which Buddy Holly died.
Walt Disney had wooden teeth.
Screen queen Debra Winger was the voice of ET.
In all his film contracts, James Stewart was granted the right to select all the hats he would wear on screen!
There are 1,943 names listed in the closing credits of The Matrix Reloaded.
Princess Anne once said she'd like to have been a long distance lorry driver.
The Queen Mother was an expert player of the bongo drums.
Prince Charles twice failed his maths 'O' level. Within minutes of delivering a speech on road safety, in 1957, Prince Philip crashed his car. There's a shock!
Princess Margaret was afraid of the dark.
King Edward died of gonorrhea, which he caught from his mistress when he was 65.
Sometimes Prince Philip hides a radio in his top hat when he attends Ascot Races - because he hates racing and prefers to listen to the cricket.
The heart of King Henry VIII's beheaded wife Anne Boleyn was buried separately from her body in a church in Suffolk.
The Queen and Prince Philip are third cousins through their descent from Queen Victoria, and are also related through King George III and King Christian IX of Denmark.
A rat can survive longer without water than a camel! Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. Ginger nuts take note!
The May Fly lives only six hours, but its eggs take three years to hatch!
Let's rock mate! Surgeons perform better during operations if they are listening to music.
A cow's life is a blast! They break wind 16 times a day - and produce 65lb of manure.
There are 50,000 earthquakes a year around the world. Time to snooze.
You burn more calories sleeping than watching television.
Reindeer like to eat bananas!
A useful tip! To avoid sinking in quicksand, lie on your back and raise your legs slowly.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
Bond Writer Ian Fleming's favourite cocktail was a Pink Gin and not a Vodka Martini like his spy hero, James Bond.
There are 20 different kinds of kisses described in the erotic Indian text the Kamasutra.
Robinson Crusoe was marooned on his island for 24 years.
Charles Dickens took just six weeks to write A Christmas Carol.
The longest sentence in literature was written by Victor Hugo in Les Miserables. It came to a staggering 823 words!
Virginia Woolf wrote all her books standing up.
Useless qutes........
Where the hell is Australia, anyway? - singer Britney Spears
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. - Walt Disney
His previous wives just didn't understand him. - Mickey Rooney's eighth wife, Jan Chamberlain
Facts are stupid things. - US President Ronald Reagan
I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. - President George Bush
Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer. - Prince Philip
I say no to drugs. But they don't listen. - singer Marilyn Manson
If I had a choice of having a woman in my arms or shooting a bad guy on a horse, I'd take the horse. It's a lot more fun. - actor Kevin Costner