The Australian $10 bill used to have a picture of a colonial architect originally convicted for forgery.
There are more bacteria in the average person’s mouth than there are people on the earth
You are more likely to die on your way to buying a lottery ticket then winning the lottery.
Every US President with a beard has been a Republican.
In 1647 the British Long Parliament banned Christmas
The first US marines recruiting station was in a bar
Clement Vallanddigham accidently shot and killed himself in 1871 while demonstrating how a victim may have accidently killed himself.
The chess term checkmate comes from the Persian phrase “shah mat” which means “the king is helpless”
The US president during WW1 was Woodrow Wilson. He married his second wife, the widow Edith Galt in December 1915. Some months prior to the marriage, President Wilson took his fiance to a social evening at a theatre. The Washington Post carried a front page story about the visit. Unfortunately there was a typo in the article. The Post had meant to say: “The President gave himself up for the time being to entertaining his fiancee”. Instead it said: “The President gave himself up for the time being to entering his fiancee”. The typo caused a lot of hilarity (and some ribaldry) at the time.
So they don’t become too heavy to fly, vampire bats urinate while drinking blood.
In 1940 two planes collided. They remained stuck together but landed safely. No lives were lost.
The light from a firefly shines out of its anus
Lions and Tigers are attracted to catnip.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon
The WW2 British submarine HMS Trident had a reindeer named Pollyanna on board for 6 weeks in 1941
Strawberries are not actually berries.
Human skin flakes make up 75% of house dust
Peruvians consume approximately 60 million guinea pigs a year.
Source :
General Knowledge and
Trivia for the Toilet by Katie Read Lagoon Books London