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

peanuts are not nuts

nonetheless, in 1981 a fossilised peanut more than 100,000 years old was found in China.

There are over 2000 species of Parsley but only 1000 species of bat and 600 ways to make love (according to Maruis de Sade in 100 Days of Sodom - the lurve bit, that is)

sorry, that should say Marquis

and no, he didn't invent large tents

n 1939 George Formby was the most popular and highest paid entertainer in the Britain and was estimated to be earning over �100,000 a year. -------------- George Formby Links http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F48874?thread=134822 http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F19585?thread=134823

On 7th December 1968 Richard Dodd returned a library book to the University of Cincinnati Medical Library which was borrowed by his grandfather in 1823.

Attila the Hun was 1 metre tall.

Captain Kidd had to be hanged three times when he was executed in 1701. The rope snapped twice.

In 1975 Rev Geoffrey Howard pushed a wheelbarrow across the Sahara Desert.

The door of Number 10 Downing Street can only be opened from the inside.

There's enough fat in the average man's body to make 75 candles.

Some earthworms in Western Australia are 2.1 metres long.

A rat can smell x-rays.

Mrs Miriam Hargrave failed her 39th driving test when she crashed into a set of red traffic lights.

Napoleon Bonaparte was frightened of cats.

On Venus the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.

On venus a day is longer than a year. s'true.

93% of 1138 people surveyed don't understand why Benny Hill was allways patting that little old bald feller on the head.

was Benny HIll included in that number?

Incidentally i think they really need those George Formby stats over on the Formby vs Tyler converation, where GEorge seems to be loosing out for some reason.

My ex-flatmate once went to school in the same town (Crieff, Central Scotland) as Ewan MacGregor, but to a different school. Hence he believes he probably threw stones at him once or twice.

Over 1,500 titles of pages on this site start with the word "Welcome"

aren't we a friendly lot

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body connected at one end.

Just thought, on the same tip: Cornwall is the only county in England that borders one other county. Therefore, logic dictates that Corwall is the tongue of England.

The tongue of the Chameleon can be twice as long as its body.

And nowhere in the Old Testament is there any explicit reference to either a duck or a reindeer. Or Cornwall for that matter.

"A rat can smell x-rays"

What? This sounds really far out. Where do you have this from?

And what Attila really only 1 meters? I don´t think there is anywhere 1 meter is average for humans.

And as we all know, if it's not in the good book, it's just not true. I don't know why we both with H2G2 when we have the lords own guidebook on hand

I just learned that 4 percent of polar bears are hermaphrodites

For some unknown reason I am watching the discovery channel. Thats where I got the above piece of useless information.

The Reliant Kitten has a turning cirle of 23 feet.

What is that supposed to mean?

Seals have so much fat and blubber that they can go for months without having to fish if they have to.