Still more stuff.

Ralph and Carolyn Cummins have 5 children all born between 1952 and 1966, they were all born on the 20th February.

Its illegal to be a prostitute in Siena Italy  if your name is Mary.

Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone, never spoke to his wife or his mother using one. They were both deaf.

Attilla the Hun was thought to have been a dwarf.

One of Queen Victoria's wedding gifts was a 3 metre diameter, half tonne cheese.

The Toltecs, a 7th Century native Mexican warriors, went into battle with wooden swords, so they wouldn't kill their opponants, just to maim them..

There are over 200 religious denomination in the USA.

Eau de Cologne, was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plaque.

In 1904, the distress call was CQD, CQ stood for Seek you and the D was for distress. It was changed to SOS in 1906.

The word Denim, comes from the town of 'De Nimes' in France, it was the town that first produced the fabric,

Some Eskimos actually use refrigerators to stop food freezing.

It cost more to send someone to reform school, than it does to send them to Eton.

Iceland is the worlds oldest democracy.

John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his mansion.

In 1849, David Atchison became President of USA for just one day, and he spent most of it asleep.

It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand over their testicles when taking the oath. Hence the modern term, 'testimony'.

They study of stupiditiy is called 'monology'

In 1911, 3 men were hung for the murder of Sir Edmund Berry at Greenbury Hill, Their last names were Green, Berry and Hill.

There are no clocks or windows in Las Vegas casinos, The bosses don't want you to realise how long you have been in there..


Logophobia, or a Fear of words.

Ernest Hemingway founded an annual fishing competition when he lived in Cuba. Fidel Castro won it in 1960.

In 1968, Steve McPeak travelled from Chicago to Los Angeles on a unicycle, it took him 6 weeks.

A jellyfish is 95% water.

More money is spent each year on Cigs and Beer, than on Life insurance.

St Nicholas, the original Father Christmas, is actually the Patron saint of Thieves, Virgins and Communist Russia.