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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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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'...

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.

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. ...

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

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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