I love crazy facts but I always forget them. Did hear this belter though - 25% of the world's cranes are in Dubai.

Anyone got any others?

What's crazy about that fact?!

presume you missed out the % there mate??

There is more bicycles in the world than there is cars!

Olivers Army by Elvis Costello was the first single bought by Charlene Spiteri of Texas fame.

There's 9 million of them in Beijing.

or so that tarts says!

The 1st song played on radio 1 was.... 'flowers in the rain' - The Move

if you pull a face when the wind blows you'll look like that forever.

I wish I never pulled the fucker now.

Mike Batt wrote it, and he was told about the bicycles by a tour guide, apparently.

A scientist picked her up on this verse......

We are 12 billion light-years from the edge,
That's a guess — no-one can ever say it's true,
But I know that I will always be with you

and suggested this as an alternative........

We are 13.7 billion light-years from the edge of the observable universe,
that's a good estimate with well-defined error bars,
Scientists say it's true, but acknowledge that it may be refined,
and with the available information, I predict that I will always be with you

Probably a little too much information, think I will go and lie down now.

Aye, the % sign wasn't working on my keyboard (new drivers) - never mind.

YKK produce 95% of the world's zips.
There's a factory in the Ruhr Valley that only makes one CD - Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits.
Walt Disney's head ISN'T cryogenically frozen.

they have a hereditary heart problem apparently

Your nose and ears never stop growing

Everyone has a six pack !

Every single car in Samoa has been stolen at least once...

50,000 cars in Samoa

Someone should break the news to Joel Porter...

Poor lad.

he won't be able to see by the time he's 40

We had one when I was a kid.

It lived to at least 12 years old.

Only 'cos you wired it up to the mains..........

If he runs fast enough he should be able to fly!!

We've just had ours put down, who was also 12.


My 8 year old son told me yesterday that apparently, if you suck a lemon in front of someone playing the trumpet, they can't play it properly because their brain automatically tells their lips to pucker up. How mad is that?!!?

In the 20 years since it was built, the Starlighthalle theatre in Bochum, Germany has only ever produced Starlight Express.

mine's grown into a 24 pack

Your sex wee turns pink if you have gay thoughts.

it's probably blood in reality - and you should get yersel to the quacks!!!

Golf got its name from its original rule "Gentlemen Only...Ladies Forbidden"

The Latin motto of Gillingham FC domus clamantium means of "home of the shouting men".

Pick 23 people at random and there's more than a 50% chance two or more of them will share the same birthday.
Make that 60 people and the odds become a near certainty.

1 in 200 men are descended from Genghis Khan

All 500,000 of today's racehorses are descended from no more than 28 ancestors.
Those designated "thoroughbreds" are descended from just three stallions.
95% of all racehorses have genes from a bay colt called "The Darley Arabian".
The Darley Arabian was considered useless as a racehorse and never started in a race.

Damned lies!

There's an entire village in the North side of the Korean DMZ that's purely there for propaganda purposes. The same woman has put out the same 5 bits of washing every day for 15 years. The houses have neither rooms nor windows.

Oh, and the North and South had a flagpole war in the 1980s - as a result the NKs have the tallest flagpole in the world

chic henderson from hartlepool recorded the original version of begin the begin

You never see blind rabbits,"so eat your carrots".

Dibble was once thin.

Bloody hell man, my head is messed up!!!!!!

Many, many years ago when I was twenty three,
I was married to a widow who was pretty as can be.

This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and really changed my life.
Now, my daughter was my mother 'cos she was my father's wife.

To complicate the matter, even though it brought me joy,
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.

For if, if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
Of the widow's grown-up daughter, who of course was my step-mother.

Father's wife then had a son, who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandchild for he was my daughter's son.

My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandmother too.

Now, if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild.
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild.

'Cause now I have become the strangest case you ever saw.
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa

Oh, I'm my own grandpa (haha)
I'm my own grandpa (whew)

It not funny I know but it really is so
Yeah, I'm my own grandpa

Giraffes have exactly the same number of neck vertebrae as humans.

My daughters aunty is 4 months younger than her.

Hartlepool for yer

There are only one hundred surnames in China.

None of which are 'Wing' or 'Wong.'

Unfortunately one of them is now Irish......

Make that 101.

FLAWED!!! My missus's best mate is Chinese and her surname is Wong!!

Then she's Taiwanese.

Yep, definately Chinese.