Knowledge is POWER.

[gjh1971]

The border between two countries is called a thalweg if the border is water

 

[The Truth]

Daddy long legs are the most poisonous spiders in the world. Thanks to shit fangs and a lack of evolution, you need to have no fear.

 

[Box of Frogs]

'Typewriter' is the longest word in the English language that can be typed solely on the top row of a QWERTY keyboard.

It's impossible to take a 5h1t without letting out at least a little bit of wee!

Adam le Fondre's full name is Glenville Adam James le Fondre.

 

[The Truth]

Darren Freeman was the first person on earth to score a goal in the new millennium.

 

[The Truth]

Oldham Athletic are the founder members of the Premiership .

 

[The Truth]

Stalybridge has the oldest brass band in the world.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

very good- had to look this up

Surprising isn't it!

 

[ruthers]

Betelguese, a star in the constellation of Orion, is 1000 x the size of our sun

 

[vegster]

It is little known that there was, in fact, 5 Horsemen of the Apocalypse but Reg left before they became famous.

 

[Igzilla]

Pluto is the furthest from the sun.

Now considered to be a minor planet, originating from the Kuiper Belt.

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

Caffine is made of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen & oxygen: the same as cocaine, thalidomide, nylon, TNT & heroin.

Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen are the building blocks of most things

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

Axolotl is the only English word ending tl.

 

[JCL - the new kid in town]

Thomas midgely jr. added lead to petrol and developed CFCs

 

[Max Paper]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima for work when the first A-bomb hit, made it home to Nagasaki for the second, and lived to be 93.


12+1 = 11+2, and "twelve plus one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two

 

[Ravids]

There are only two escalators in the entire state of Wyoming.

 

[ruthers]

Carrots are only orange because the Dutch genetically modified them

 

[Frutos]

Now considered to be a minor planet, originating from the Kuiper Belt.

So that's what he's been up to since he retired.

 

[Prince Monolulu]

There are only two escalators in the entire state of Wyoming.

Ahem, 'escalator' is a trademark, as are 'zipper' and 'yo-yo'

 

[The Large One]

Axolotl is the only English word ending tl.

It's pushing it to call it an English word.

It's a word originating from Mexico, like popocatepetl - which also ends 'tl'.

 

[Frutos]

Axolotl is the only English word ending tl.

I can beat that for an Axolotl fact:

If you inject an Axolotl with iodine you can induce it to metamorphose into its adult form - a change it would never otherwise make on its own.

Effectively, an axolotl is a real-life Pokemon.