- According to an old Swiss custom if a man drops his bread in your fondue you have to shave and wash his dog.
- Farts are just the ghosts of things we eat.
- Until starving Irishmen resorted to eating them in the mid-nineteenth century, turnips were grown exclusively for use as weapons.
- Sausage skin is made from the skin of the person who made the sausage.
- People’s organs in the southern hemisphere are a mirror image of those in the corresponding latitude in the northern hemisphere, and get more and more alike the closer one gets to the equator.
- The ‘common cold’ was invented in 1956 by Kleenex to sell regular dirty toilet roll as “nose tissues”.
- Steak hasn’t always been made from meat. Up until 1914 it was actually made from celery, with a touch of beetroot for colour.
- Yachting was invented by the same man who invented yoghurt, yahtzee and the girl’s name Yvonne.
- Sail boats over 10m are prone to becoming sentient and rebelling against their human overlord.
- Popping your knuckles doubles your strength with each pop. Parents simply forbid it out of fear.
- Wireless technology was invented to prevent injuries to cats.
- Giraffes were created when Mohammed Ali uppercutted a horse.
- Snakes show intimacy, just like humans, with love bites, but for many snakes this act is inevitably fatal.
- The original name for 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter', 'Butter, My Arse' was rejected due to problems with punctuation.
- Montgomery Burns, from the hit cartoon “The Simpsons” is a direct descendant of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns.