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The Economics of Stripping . According to researchers at University of New Mexico strippers make more money when they're ovulating, bec...

Whilst HeardSaid is taking a sabbatical, we recommend UsedFAQs which posts random answers from Frequently Asked Questions on a variety of s...

Did you know every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury? [Nope, we didn't Fran, thanks!]

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The word "wharf" stands for " W are H ouse A t R iver F ront".

When Ronald Reagan was given his first tour of the White House after being made president of the US he demanded a visit the war room he'...

Leafcutter ants are the only species on the planet, apart from humans, to cultivate their own food. The ants, usually found in the rainfores...

If a human being were to eat black pudding followed by king prawns and washed down with a glass of milk, due to the un-stable chemical mixtu...

In the Steven Spielberg film 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' during the scene when we've discovered that Roy has built a sc...

A new Franchesca fact. Did you know that a human being can safely live on a diet of one packet of regular crisps a day because of their hig...

Alexander Graham Bell's wife was deaf.

While the London Metropolitan Police have free transport on the trains, buses and underground systems of London - the same is not true of th...

A great example from Music Thing of how sometimes it's vitally important to keep your copyright. The man who composed the four notes w...

Here is a scene from the shooting script of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith which explains the one thing many fans had been dying to know. ...

Should you find yourself at the top of Machu Picchu and suddenly worried about whether you left the gas on, don't fret. You can call hom...

Damselflies can fly 15m in a single second from a standing start, and can reach a top speed of 40 mph.

Naked mole rats are fossorial (live underground) and have a fairly consistent temperature. They have no circadian rhythm and sleep/wake when...

The Globe Theatre, the original in the 1600s, had a capacity crowd of three thousand. There were only two hundred thousand people in London...

The Welsh Assembly is the only elected body in the Western world, if not the world, to have a 50/50 split between men and women members.

The use of 'mayday' as a distress call originated with the French m'aidez (help me) or m'aider (to render help to me), and...

When pigeons mate, the female lays two eggs - one male and one female. When the eggs hatch, the chicks grow up together and, eventually, mat...

Richard Belzer plays Detective John Munch on the series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". The character originated as a reg...

Franchesca writes: "Whilst realizing I have no money, for some reason I decided to add up each demomination of coins and notes in the ...

In 1967 at the height of the foot and mouth epidemic, horse racing was banned. The authorities resorted to electronic races with imaginary ...

It is estimated that one in two hundred modern Mongol men can trace their genetic heritage back to Ghengis Khan. Now that is what I call put...

The carrot is not a vegetable, but a herb. Carrots used to be purple in colour, until someone decided that the orange ones tasted better (a ...

There is a house in Liverpool which has its own postcode. When postcodes were being handed out, the doctor who lived there ascerted what au...

The Welsh Rugby Team only seem to win the Grand Slam in a year the Pope dies. They won it this year the same year Pope John Paul II dies, an...

Peat bogs cover more than 1% of the Earth's surface. This is equal in area to about one half of the United States. Peat is a major part...

Australia is home to the world's only whistling spider.

Franchesca tells us about The Real Thing: Only two people in the company know Coca-Cola's formula, and each of them only knows half of i...

Some fun French facts from one of our readers, Jacques: "The real name of my country is not France, but France Republic - not many know...

Another contribution from Franchesca. Eating turkey makes people sleepy. Which presumably explains why I never feel tired after Christmas ...

Snack expert Dave Green tells me, as we sit at the Mason's Arms on Seymour Place, that the reason that crinkle-cut crisps taste better ...

The combination of shrimp and Vitamin C tablets will cause arsenic poisoning. [thanks Franchesca!]

In Poplar (North London, UK) there are a block of flats that are notorious for dead bodies being found on the ground at the bottom of them. ...

from Bill Bryson's The Mother Tongue "A man of Shakespeare's linguistic versatility must have possessed thousands of words he n...

Mosses and lichens are used as pollution indicators. Mosses and lichens are non-vascular (no system of veins to transport materials around ...

Cats purr at a frequency which stimulates blood flow, thus accelerating healing. This allows cats to survive injuries which would kill a dog...

Petra, the dog from BBC's Blue Peter whose death was mourned by million in the 70s and honoured by a bronze bust effectively died twice...

apparently, 1% of the contents of a whiskey barrel evaporate. distillers call this the "angel share".

i once heard that oysters die happy. being vegan and hence avoiding the consumption of any animal products, these news surprised me quite a ...