[alaiksandr]

Ill start us off

...Despite being over 27 times smaller, Norway's total coastline is longer than the USA's.

[AndyJ]

The stapler was invented in Spring Valley, Minnesota.

[alaiksandr]

Dolphins have been known to engage in gang rape

[Johnny 1989]

Chevvy Chase turned down the lead male role in American Beauty, Kevin Spacey won an Oscar for that as well. I bet he regrets turning that part down now

[AndyJ]

96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

[DannyBoy]

A Tomato or toe-may-toe depending where your from is a fruit

[Nicola_Red]

96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich

I don't think the peanut butter would spread properly if the jam was already on there. It's too thick and sticky. Jam coats peanut butter quite nicely tho.

[AndyJ]

The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long

[MK Chris]

Lego is the world's largest manufacturer of tyres.

[foot-loose]

The typical lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long

A typical lead pencil contains no lead.

[freddie]

Most toilets flush in the note E flat.

[SAV1OUR]

ICI stands for 'International Chemical Industries', I've never forgotten it. *Gives brain a good rattling*

[DannyBoy]

D'you know that the human head weighs 8 pounds?

[Jill]

There are more than 200 kinds of chili peppers, none of which belong to the pepper family

[alaiksandr]

Last year in America...

A couple robbing a store caught on camera could not be identified until the police reviewed the security tape. The woman filled out an entry form for a free trip prior to robbing the store.

[Johnny 1989]

A few here:

Colin Baker is the only actor to be (wrongfully) sacked from playing The Doctor in Doctor Who, all the other actors have left on their own accord. Colin Baker wanted to beat Tom's record of 7 years.

Crane flies are known as Daddy Long Legs in the UK, however a Daddy Long Legs is also a nickname given to a Pholcidae spider, which is where Ricky Gervais get's his "fact" about Daddy Long Legs having poisonous venom from:

From Wikipedia:

Misconceptions
There is an urban legend stating that daddy long-legs spiders have the most potent venom of any spider, but that their chelicerae (fangs) are either too small or too weak to puncture human skin; the same legend is also repeated of the harvestman and crane fly, also called "daddy long-legs" in some locales. Indeed, pholcid spiders do have a short fang structure (called uncate). However, brown recluse spiders also have uncate fang structure, but are able to deliver medically significant bites. Either pholcid venom is not toxic to humans or there is a musculature difference between the two arachnids, with recluses, being hunting spiders, possessing stronger muscles for fang penetration. [5]

In 2004, the Discovery Channel show MythBusters set out to test the daddy long-legs myth (Season 1, Episode 13 "Buried in Concrete"). After measuring the spider's fangs at approximately 0.25 mm (average human skin thickness varies from about 0.5mm to 4mm), the show's host was apparently bitten, although the bite produced little more than a mild short-lived burning sensation. This appears to confirm the suspicion that pholcids can penetrate human skin, but that their venom is practically harmless to humans. Additionally, recent research by Alan Van Dyke has shown that pholcid venom is actually relatively weak in its effects on insects as well.[6].

According to the University of California at Riverside, the daddy long-legs spider has never harmed a human and there is no evidence that they are venomous to humans.[7]

[Munki Bhoy]

The Daddy Long Legs is sometimes known as the Jenny Long Legs too.

[Johnny 1989]

The Daddy Long Legs is sometimes known as the Jenny Long Legs too.

Oh really, where do they call it that then?

[catherine]

I have a hole in my sock.

[jocky85]

I just ate a whole pack of Toffos

[alaiksandr]

Leeds are shit

[Bonanzoid]

Yer maw's shit.

[Munki Bhoy]

The Daddy Long Legs is sometimes known as the Jenny Long Legs too.

Oh really, where do they call it that then?

Up here for one.

[Bonanzoid]

And here I think. Although, maybe that's the Weejie influence in my family?

[Yudster]

I have a hole in my sock.

That's the only post in this whole thread that has made me laugh.