- There are 1000 times as many bacteria in your gut as there are stars in the Milky Way.
- A single male human produces enough sperm in two weeks to impregnate every fertile woman on the planet.
- The Bible is the most shoplifted book in the United States.
- The first private detective agency was started by a criminal.
- Women look their oldest at 3.30pm on Wednesdays.
- There is enough carbon in your body to make 9000 pencils.
- Americans eat 10 billion doughnuts every year.
- Speed dating was the brainchild of a rabbi.
- The Moon is shaped like an egg: it only looks round because the big end points towards Earth.
- At any one time, 45 million people in the world are drunk.
- Since 1990, more people have been killed by sandcastles than by sharks.
- A group of kittens called “a kindle”.
- Sixty per cent of Premier League footballers go bankrupt within five years of retirement.
- Rodents prefer peanut butter to cheese.
- Earthworms have five hearts.
- Your eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days.
- 40 million people in China live in caves.
- Albert Einstein claimed that his second best idea was to boil his eggs in his soup, thereby saving on washing up.
- There is only one sneeze in the Bible.
- Piranhas enjoy beans and other vegetables.
- In Canada, Santa has his own postcode: HOH OHO.
- The largest millipede in Tanzania is called the wandering leg sausage.
- One in ten women cares more for a fictitious male character than her actual partner.
- Science students who wear white lab coats perform better in tests.
- Galileo’s middle finger is on display in Museo Galileo, Florence.
- The Russian team arrived 12 days late for the 1908 London Olympics because they were still using the Julian calendar.
- The average woman spends 16 months of her life crying.
- 80 per cent of men born in the Soviet Union in 1923 were dead by 1945.
- The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park were made from recordings of the tortoises having sex.
- Babies are born with no bacteria in their bodies.
- 90 per cent of guns in Mexico are smuggled in from the USA.
- Plants grow more quickly if you talk to them in a Geordie accent.
- Only one dog has ever been to both North and South Poles.
From The TELEGRAPH WEEKEND