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.
