It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament
It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down
In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter
In the UK a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman’s helmet
The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the King, and the tail of the Queen
It is illegal not to tell the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing
It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour
In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow
Men commit suicide three times more frequently than women do.
But women attempt suicide two to three times more often than men.
Does this mean that men are more successful than women, or is they they do it properly?
The world's costliest coffee, at $130 a pound, is called Kopi Luwak. It is in the droppings of a type of marsupial that eats only the very best coffee beans.
Plantation workers track them and scoop their precious poop.
(anyone for coffee)
Purple Betty said:
Left - handed people are known as Sinisters!
I'm left handed, and after reading this lot I'm developing an inferiority complex
http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/lefty_language.html
I am left handed to.
Ask a right handed person what hand do they use their fork when using a knife.
Then ask what hand they use for their fork when not using a knife.
Normally all right handers will switch hands with the fork.
I use my fork in my left hand no matter if I am using the knife or not.
So who is cack handed or should I say confused?
Chocolate contains phenyl ethylamine (PEA), a natural substance that is reputed to stimulate the same reaction in the body as falling in love
The hottest chilli in the world is the habanero.
The average person will consume 10,000 chocolate bars in a lifetime.
i'm left-handed too , in scotland we're known as 'corrie-fisted'
pig fact - a sow's cervix has a left-hand thread , the boar's penis has a corkscrew tip which has to lock in to the sow's cervix before the boar can ejaculate - hence the term 'screwing'
In the 1700s, European women achieved a pale complexion by eating "Arsenic Complexion Wafers" actually made with the poison.
Laser stands for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation." I am sure that must be really interesting!
The condom - made originally of linen - was invented in the early 1500's. That don't sound too good!
When Scott Paper Co. first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
Wrigley's promoted their new spearmint-flavoured chewing gum in 1915 by mailing 4 sample sticks to each of the 1.5 million names listed in US telephone books.
Hans Christian Andersen, Cher, Tom Cruise, Albert Einstein, Whoopie Goldberg, Greg Louganis, Lee Harvey Oswald, and Gen. George S. Patton, are (were) all dyslexics.
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