There is no word in English which rhymes with ‘pint’.

Lava lamps were invented by an accountant whose hobby was making underwater nudist films.

1 in 6 Google searches have never been searched for before.

All but one of the ravens at the Tower of London died from stress during the Blitz.

Beethoven was of Belgian extraction.

Baby puffins are called ‘pufflings’.

When Matt Smith became the 11th Doctor Who in 2010, UK bow-tie sales doubled in a month.

In the 1890s, Donald Trump's grandfather ran a restaurant that doubled up as a brothel.

A chemical in ships’ paint causes female snails to grow penises and explode.

Sir Charles Isham, a vegetarian spiritualist, introduced garden gnomes, to England in 1847. He hoped that they would attract real gnomes to his garden.

Skoda is Czech for ‘shame’, ‘damage’ or ‘pity’.

People eat less in subdued lighting.

The soil in your back garden is two million years old.

In 2013, China’s only female Mao Zedong impersonator was divorced by her husband, who ‘got tired of feeling that he was sleeping with the Chairman’.

The Khasi Hills in India, once known as the wettest hills in the world, are now having to import water.

Skateboards were banned in Norway between 1978 and 1989.