h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

All parti-coloured (striped, patched, otherwise) animals have different coloured skin. If you ever get hold of one, check.

winston churchill? in a bathroom, at a dance?

i'm having problems swallowing that eggplant, by the way....

Try cutting it up first, bread it, then frying it. Actually Jersey is known as the garden state.

and more informally, the garbage state... i know, but really? i mean 2/3 of the entire worlds eggplant? thats alot of eggplant parmasian, y'know?

Where else would you expect to find an oddly shaped purple vegetable (I'm not sure if it is a fruit or a vegetable)?

I'm pretty sure it's a vegetable.

I thought the definition of 'fruit' was the part of the plant that holds the seeds. In that case, an eggplant is indeed a fruit. So are tomatoes, zucchini, and cucumbers, because they are only one particular part of a bigger plant. If we were eating the vines or leaves, we'd call them vegetables. I'm not sure if I've got that definition right, but that's what I've been told. Carrots are vegetables because we eat the root part; spinach is a vegetable because we eat the leaves. (Although I don't know where carrots and spinach keep their seeds at all.)

Here's my latest bit of useless information: you've probably heard of the Russian car company called 'Lada'. A friend of mine who speaks Hungarian has informed me that in her language, 'lada' means 'crate'. A few days later we were on the bus and saw a Lada drive past-- and the description was very accurate...

Cheese gives mice diarrhoea.

Hmm, it seems to me no matter what you feed mice they sh*t alot afterwards.

I think the difference between a fruit and a vegetable is fruits grown on trees and bushes.

A banana is a herb.

PP

Are you saying you´re calling your "banana" Herb?

A bit of medical terminology if you ever get to read your hospital notes...

PAFO = p****d and fell over
FUNDY = f****d up not dead yet

and a "cabbage" is a type of heart operation.

The smallest Police Service in the UK is the 'Royal Botanical Gardens Societies Constabulary', which consist of five Special Constables and their Chief Officer who is a Sergeant.
They police Kew Gardens.

Disney Land has the 4th largest navy in the world.

No suggesting that you try to smoke a banana.

PP

The mineral (MgFe)7Si8O22(OH)2 (excuse the lack of subscripts) was discovered in Cummington, Massachusetts, USA and so was given the scientific name "cummingtonite"

Disneyland Navy: is that number of vessals or tonnage ?

Probably vessals, but I am unsure.

I don't recall whether here is a keeper of useless information but I've found a candidate .... check out http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/U171578

Red

If Hell the place is as full of trivia, I'd like to go there.