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

toe yeast? more likely the women sitting on it.

but it is not true that candida albicans is latin for white bread.

The word "Moccasin" is not of Native American origin. It actually comes from the Scots Gaelic "M'cassin" meaning "my leg/foot"

There's an AK-47 on the flag of Mozambique.

There's an AK47 in my wardrobe in Yemen. Without one you feel naked.

I need to find this again.

marking

A cluster of thirteen aluminium atoms behaves like a halogen.
A cluster of fourteen behaves like an alkali earth metal.

By UK consumer rights law a 'nut cluster' must always contain an almond else it is technically not a 'nut cluster' and therefore cannot be marketed and sold as such.

Jaffa Cakes are so named for tax reasons. Biscuits are considered luxuries, and are therefore taxed for VAT purposes at 17.5%. Cakes, for some reason, are considered foodstuffs, and are therefore zero rated.

Antartica is the only continent that does not have any land areas below sea level.

So what does it sit on then?

Ok... Every other continent except antartica has open land SURFACE areas below sea level such as Death Valley and the Dead Sea.

now it's useful

How so?

Because if we could convince someone that it was floating we could have set up an expedition to tow it North to cure global warming.

Ah, but then you'd just be heating the south instead!

Yes, so nobody lives down there do they?

But maybe towing it north would reset the rotation axis, getting rid of all this tedious season change business and giving us instead stable, unchanging weahter conditions: constant summer around the equator, constant spring north and south of it, and constant winter at the poles. There, that would be nice for the tourist industry.

Useless fact:

No watch is ever correct - except that watch whose hands aren't moving, which is exactly right two times a day.

Y.

Provided that the watch is the right way up.

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Only a whole bunch of southern Jesses. But they don't count.

Useless fact: Lager is a girl's drink.