Not a lot of people know that.

[Buleste]

This is a thread for useless but interesting facts. Here's some to start us off.

Marriage over the telephone is valid under Islamic law.

Wombats produce cube-shaped dung.

Cillit Bang is called Cillit Bam in New Zealand.

[Phantom]

Cillit Bang is called Cillit Bam in New Zealand.

[Buleste]

The average person tells four lies a day.

Ordained priests can work in supermarkets.

The name "scrumpy" comes from a word meaning small and shrivelled.

The world's most complex mathematical problem is called the Poincare Conjecture.

Plastic surgeons in the US are doing lip grafts using muscle from the neck to make lips fuller.

The Mafia use Facebook.

The flat-headed cat has webbed feet.

Cillit Bang has been used to clean plutonium stains at the defunct Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland.

[J T]

Cillit Bang has been used to clean plutonium stains at the defunct Dounreay nuclear power station in Caithness, Scotland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGooQ8yYC0c

Any excuse for this!

[Teho]

The average person eats three spiders per year. Spiders are attracted to warm, moist places. So guess what happens every once in a while when you're sleeping.

[Buleste]

Spiders are attracted to warm, moist places. So guess what happens every once in a while when you're sleeping.

The old joke about the woman who hadn't had sex for a while having cobwebs up there is true!!!!!!!

[Harrison]

I thought it was 3 spiders in your lifetime, not per year?

[Harrison]

Wombats produce cube-shaped dung.

For some strange reason, I actually knew that fact!