Not a lot of people know that.

[Buleste]

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts three naked men with their hands on each other's shoulders.

Most lipstick contains fish scales!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

[Sharingan]

1 in 8 Americans has worked at McDonald's.

60% of people using the Internet use it for porno.

A peanut is not a nut, but a legume.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

[Buleste]

Gaza has a surf club.

Male long tailed slugs make "love darts" from calcium minerals and use them to inject hormones into females.

Babies born in autumn or winter are more likely to develop a food allergy than those born in spring or summer.

In the 13th century, the Chinese used covered sewage tanks to generate power.

In America, 30% of teenagers send more than 100 texts a day.

Source of the name "Indiana Jones": it was the name of producer George Lucas' pet Malamute.

The 1997 Jack Nicholson film - "As Good As It Gets", is known in China as "Mr. Cat Poop".

A theatre manager in Seoul, Korea felt that The Sound of Music was too long, so he shortened it by cutting out all the songs.

Donald Duck comics were banned from Finland because he doesn't wear pants.

Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.

The original fifty cent piece in Australian decimal currency had around $2.00 worth of silver in it before it was replaced with a less expensive twelve sided coin.

[Buleste]

This factoid is a bit of a bugger for me.

People who regularly have less than six hours sleep increase their chance of dying over a 25-year period by 12%.

I regularly get less than 6 hours sleep and if you add in all the genetic, dietary factors going against me then I died 2 years ago.

[Stephen Coates]

It was only a few years ago that they were saying that people who sleep too much will not live as long.

[Harrison]

They really don't know and are just guessing. Each person needs a different amount of sleep, so it would be different for each.

[Buleste]

I think it's a case of "people die every day so what common factor can we attribute to that?" Sort of like "Stopping breathing increases the chance of you dying." That sort of thing.

[Harrison]

It always amazes me how much money is paid to people to carry ou research on such things, when instead they could have saved the money and just spoken to someone with common sense. Although they seem harder to find these days!

[J T]

Common sense is now statistically valid?