- Being born without an ear is called microtia.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor is related to Paris Hilton.
- In Iceland, 96% of women go to university.
- Gordon Brown has broken prime ministerial convention by getting a mobile phone, but it does not take incoming calls.
- It costs 100 euros to hire one of the prostitutes' windows in Amsterdam for part of the day.
- About 16,000 hyphens have been dropped from the latest edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
- The Belgian army had to be called in recently to deal with an infestation of moths.
- Dinosaurs had creches.
- Conservative haircut' is economists' jargon for a form of loan collateral.
- Meteorites do not let off dangerous fumes - but on landing can expose rotting organic matter, filling the air with methane, hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide.
(Source: BBC)