1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop

Page 1, Position 2: There are 1,339 outdoor sculptures in Texas.: "http://www.heritagepreservation.org/programs/SOS/4KIDS/4kids2000/texas.htm"
Page 1, Position 3: There are 1,339 Christian churches in Wenzhou, China.: "http://www.scotch.vic.edu.au/community/publications/great-scot/2011-december/test-everything-hold-on-to-the-good.aspx"
Page 1, Position 4: There are 1,339 illegal factories in Samanabad, Pakistan.: "http://tribune.com.pk/story/445950/industrial-safety-63-high-fire-risk-factories-in-residential-areas-identified/"
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Page 2, Position 1: Pakistan means 'Land of the Pure' in Urdu.: Black, Carolyn, Pakistan: The People (Crabtree Publishing Company, 31 Oct 2001), p.4
Page 2, Position 2: The most commonly used word for 'detergent' in Urdu is 'Surf'.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surf_(detergent)"
Page 2, Position 3: It is illegal in China to show TV ads for haemorrhoid cream at mealtimes.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3140064.stm"
Page 2, Position 4: One in seven UK banknotes carries traces of anal bacteria.: "http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dirty-money-one-in-seven-bank-1379439"
Page 3, Position 1: Babies are born with no bacteria in their bodies.: "http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-hew-booster26jun26
Page 3, Position 2: The word 'infant' is from the Latin for 'unable to speak'.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=infant&allowed_in_frame=0 "
Page 3, Position 3: 'Bow-wow', 'Ding-dong' and 'Pooh-pooh' are all names for different theories about the origin of language.: "http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/langorigins.html"
Page 3, Position 4: Winnie the Pooh's real name is Edward Bear.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2002613/Winnie-Pooh-The-bear-little-brain-VERY-big-bank-balance.html"
Page 4, Position 1: The offspring of a polar bear and a grizzly bear is called a pizzly bear.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2010/12/photogalleries/101215-pizzly-grolar-bear-polar-grizzly-hybrids-nature-arctic-global-warming-pictures/"
Page 4, Position 2: A baby pterosaur is called a flapling.: Unwin, David, Pterosaurs: from deep time (Pi Press, 24 Jan 2006 ) p.150
Page 4, Position 3: Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs.: "http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/critters/cockroach.html""http://news.sciencemag.org/2012/12/earliest-known-dino"
Page 4, Position 4: The Himalayas were formed 25 million years after the last dinosaur died out.: "http://timelines.ws/00070_1MIL.HTML"
Page 5, Position 1: All the mountains on Saturn's moon Titan are named after peaks in The Lord of the Rings.: "http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/11/geekiest-places-solar-system/"
Page 5, Position 2: J. R. R. Tolkien and Adolf Hitler both fought at the battle of the Somme.: Duriez, Colin, J R R Tolkien: The Making of a Legend (Lion Books, 2012), p. 96
Page 5, Position 3: During Hitler's years in power, Mein Kampf was given away free to every newly-wed couple.: "http://www.history.com/topics/nazi-party"
Page 5, Position 4: Mussolini described Mein Kampf as 'a boring tome that I have never been able to read'.: Lynch, Michael J, Hitler (Routledge, 2013) p.62
Page 6, Position 1: The most-read publication in the UK is Tesco magazine.: "http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fa5455e2-324e-11e2-b891-00144feabdc0.html"
Page 6, Position 2: A pint of milk in a supermarket can contain milk from over a thousand different cows.: "http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/x490263095/Farmer-s-request-to-sell-unprocessed-milk-has-Bridgewater-officials-in-a-quandry?zc_p=1"
Page 6, Position 3: The average Briton consumes 8 cows, 36 sheep and 36 pigs in a lifetime.: "http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/sep/07/food.beef"
Page 6, Position 4: A raw carrot is still alive when you eat it.: "http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/06/your-fruits-and-vegetables-can-tell-day-from-night-and-even-get-jet-lag/"
Page 7, Position 1: Half the food produced in the world is left to rot.: "http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/10/half-of-all-food-produced-in-the-world-left-to-rot-3345874/"
Page 7, Position 2: Every hour, the UK produces enough waste to fill the Albert Hall.: "http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/jun/11/waste.recycling"
Page 7, Position 3: If the Albert Hall were a freezer, it could hold all the galaxies in the visible universe if they were the size of frozen peas.: Bryson, Bill, A Short History Of Nearly Everything (Random House, 2 Mar 2010) p.161
Page 7, Position 4: Howard Hughes kept a ruler in his hotel room to measure any peas he ordered, sending back those that were 'too big'.: Brown, Harry Peter, Brown, Peter Harry and Broeske, Pat H. Howard Hughes: The Untold Story (Penguin Group (Canada), 1 May 1997) p.378
Page 8, Position 1: CCD (canine compulsive disorder) is OCD for dogs.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2013/06/130610-ocd-dogs-health-animals-science-brains/"
Page 8, Position 2: In German, 'Dogging' is jogging with your dog.: "http://www.amazon.de/Dogging-Lily-Merklin/dp/3440088944"
Page 8, Position 3: Bloodhounds' noses are 100 million times more sensitive than human noses.: "http://hms.harvard.edu/news/harvard-medicine/extra-sensory-perceptions"
Page 8, Position 4: Astronauts' helmets contain a small piece of Velcro so they can scratch their noses.: "http://www.universetoday.com/38599/astronaut-helmet/"
Page 9, Position 1: According to Velcro's official website, there is no such thing as Velcro.: "http://www.velcro.com.hk/eng/p1.asp"
Page 9, Position 2: Splenda was an insecticide that became a sweetener when an assistant misheard an order to 'test' it as 'taste' it.: "http://issuu.com/kclalumni/docs/intouch-modified"
Page 9, Position 3: Samsung's first product was dried fish.: "http://www.samsung.com/uk/aboutsamsung/corporateprofile/history06.html"
Page 9, Position 4: Wrigley's originally made soap.: "http://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Wrigley__William.html"
Page 10, Position 1: Chewing gum costs 3p a stick to buy but 10p a blob to clean off the pavement.: "http://www.communityclean.co.uk/news/westminster-gum-facts.aspx"
Page 10, Position 2: Second Street is the most common street name in the USA. First Street is the third most common.: "http://www.nlc.org/build-skills-networks/resources/cities-101/most-common-u-s--street-names"
Page 10, Position 3: The oldest bridge in Paris is the Pont Neuf, or 'New Bridge'.: "http://www.paris.fr/english/heritage-and-sights/bridges/bridges/pont-neuf/rub_8277_dossier_34707_port_19143_sheet_7888"
Page 10, Position 4: More than half the fish in the USA labelled as tuna is not tuna.: "http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/59-of-the-tuna-americans-eat-is-not-tuna/273410/"
Page 11, Position 1: Half of all animal and plant species live in only one country and nowhere else.: "http://lntreasures.com/"
Page 11, Position 2: Half of British adults don't believe in evolution.: "http://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/feb/01/evolution-darwin-survey-creationism"
Page 11, Position 3: Most clams begin life as males, but half of them turn female when older.: Marshall, David The Clam Hunter (Xlibris Corporation, 25 Oct 2010) p.17
Page 11, Position 4: The Green Zone Golf Club is on the border of Finland and Sweden: half the holes are in one country and half in the other.: "http://www.golfeurope.com/euro_clubs/green_zone/"
Page 12, Position 1: The first woman to play golf was Mary Queen of Scots.: "http://www.britishgolfmuseum.co.uk/faqs"
Page 12, Position 2: Agatha Christie was a keen surfer.: "http://www.museumofbritishsurfing.org.uk/2012/03/01/museum-of-british-surfing-opens-april-6-2012/"
Page 12, Position 3: George W. Bush was a college cheerleader.: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1005/cheerleader.1960s/content.4.html
Page 12, Position 4: Bruce Lee was Hong Kong's 1958 cha-cha dance champion.: "http://www.bruceleefoundation.com/index.cfm/pid/10585"
Page 13, Position 1: The oldest dance still performed is the Austrian shoe-slapping dance.: "http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/528370/Schuhplattler"
Page 13, Position 2: The oldest animal ever found was a 405-year-old Icelandic clam. It was killed by researchers trying to work out its age.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2007/10/071029-oldest-clam.html"
Page 13, Position 3: Women look their oldest at 3.30 p.m. on Wednesdays.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9818180/Women-look-their-oldest-at-3.30pm-every-Wednesday.html"
Page 13, Position 4: Nudiustertian means 'relating to the day before yesterday'.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 14, Position 1: The word 'journey' is from the French journée and once meant the distance one could walk in a day.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=journey"
Page 14, Position 2: The Swahili for 'journey' is safari.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=safari&searchmode=none"
Page 14, Position 3: The Express, the Telegraph, the Economist, the Times, the Star and the Independent were all London-based stagecoaches in the 1830s.: Engel, Matthew, Eleven Minutes Late: A Train Journey to the Soul of Britain (London: MacMillan, 2009)
Page 14, Position 4: The Solar System is travelling round the galaxy at more than half a million miles per hour.: "http://discovermagazine.com/2007/aug/the-sun-flies-like-a-bullet"
Page 15, Position 1: A Manx shearwater flies over 5 million miles in its lifetime.: "http://www.rte.ie/tv/wildjourneys/manx-shearwater.html"
Page 15, Position 2: Zugunruhe is the restlessness of caged birds in the migration season.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 15, Position 3: Urban birds have learned to line their nests with cigarette butts. Nicotine is a powerful insecticide that wards off mites, lice and fleas.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/marlboro-palace-how-city-birds-feather-their-nests-8382454.html"
Page 15, Position 4: The nectar of citrus plants contains caffeine to attract bees.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/science/plants-use-caffeine-to-lure-bees-scientists-find.html?_r=0Â§"
Page 16, Position 1: David Cameron used to be president of the Oxfordshire Bee Keepers' Association.: "https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/61359/ministers-interests.pdf"
Page 16, Position 2: Pannage was a tax on keeping pigs in royal forests that was paid in pigs.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 16, Position 3: Henry VIII put a tax on beards in 1535, but made sure his own was exempt.: "http://theweek.com/article/index/242550/10-of-the-worlds-most-bizarre-taxes"
Page 16, Position 4: King David I of Scotland gave tax rebates to subjects with good table manners.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/9793044/Sorry-The-English-and-their-Manners-by-Henry-Hitchings-review.html
Page 17, Position 1: William the Conqueror had been in England for a fortnight before the battle of Hastings.: Norwich, John Julius, A History of England in 100 Places (London: John Murray, 2011) p.60
Page 17, Position 2: King John was named 'Softsword' for his feeble military activities.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/lusig_01.shtml"
Page 17, Position 3: In the Hundred Years War, the French called the English 'godons' because they were always shouting 'God damn'.: Lace, William W., Hundred Years' War (Lucent Books, 1 Jan 1994) p.97
Page 17, Position 4: Lalochezia is using swearing to relieve stress or pain.: "http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/lalochezia"
Page 18, Position 1: The words proctalgia, proctodynia, pygalgia and rectalgia all mean 'pain in the backside'.: "http://www.neatorama.com/2008/05/03/10-insulting-words-you-should-know/"
Page 18, Position 2: In Exodus 33:23, God shows Moses his backside: 'And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts..: "http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Exodus-33-23/"
Page 18, Position 3: St Martin of Tours exorcised people by shoving his arm down their throats and forcing the devil out of their anus.: "http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=9608"
Page 18, Position 4: 500,000 Italians visit an exorcist every year.: "http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-rite-exorcism-in-the-movies/"
Page 19, Position 1: 'The devil's port-gate' was an Elizabethan euphemism for the vagina.: Sands, Kathleen R., Demon Possession in Elizabethan England, (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1 Jan 2004) p.119
Page 19, Position 2: In the 18th century, 'bum-fodder' and 'arse-wisp' both meant toilet paper.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=the%20waterless%20toilet%20is%20it%20right%20for%20you"
Page 19, Position 3: On an average day, Britons spend 14 hours and 39 minutes sitting down.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7738663/Britons-spend-more-than-14-hours-a-day-sitting-down.html"
Page 19, Position 4: Before dentists' chairs were invented, the patient's head was clenched between the surgeon's knees.: The Independent [London (UK)] 15 Aug 2011
Page 20, Position 1: The electric chair was invented by a dentist.: "http://www.ccadp.org/electricchair.htm"
Page 20, Position 2: The first guillotine was built by a harpsichord maker.: "http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19980508&id=94laAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aksDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4591
Page 20, Position 3: The first private detective agency was started by a criminal.: "http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?brand=general&docId=InU-Li-VAC9277&doc.view=print"
Page 20, Position 4: Speed dating was the brainchild of a rabbi.: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4803880
Page 21, Position 1: The quickest possible round-the-world flight time by commercial airline is 44 hours.: "http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/flying-around-the-world.html"
Page 21, Position 2: The remains of birds hit by aeroplanes are known as 'snarge'.: "http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/multimedia/2005/09/68937"
Page 21, Position 3: 80% of plane crashes occur in the first three or last eight minutes of a flight.: "http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0
Page 21, Position 4: Only 5% of the world's population has ever been on an aeroplane.: "http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/weaving/leohickman.html"
Page 22, Position 1: Before Amy Johnson flew solo from Britain to Australia, the furthest she had flown was from Hendon to Hull.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3598467/She-mesmerised-the-world.html"
Page 22, Position 2: Nearly half of all airline pilots admit they have fallen asleep on the job.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/9688507/Four-in-ten-pilots-admit-falling-asleep-in-the-cockpit.html"
Page 22, Position 3: The first man-made object in space was the German V2 rocket.: "http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrocketv2.htm"
Page 22, Position 4: Russian cosmonauts routinely took guns into space in case re-entry landed them in the Siberian wilderness.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82"
Page 23, Position 1: In 1905, the city of Birmingham banned rifle shooting in pubs.: Taylor, Arthur, Played at the pub, (English Heritage, 2009) p.138
Page 23, Position 2: The gun laws in Tombstone, Arizona, are less strict today than they were at the time of the OK Corral.: "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-winkler/did-the-wild-west-have-mo_b_956035.html"
Page 23, Position 3: In Kennesaw, Georgia, gun ownership is required by law.: "http://rense.com/general9/gunlaw.htm"
Page 23, Position 4: There is only one gun shop in Mexico: 90% of the country's firearms are smuggled in from the USA.: "http://www.theworld.org/2012/12/guns-and-the-us-mexico-border-what-atf-agents-see/"
Page 24, Position 1: On 18th February 1913, Pedro Lascuráin resigned as president of Mexico after holding office for less than an hour.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_LascurÃ¡in"
Page 24, Position 2: The Marianas Trench in the Pacific is so deep that a coin dropped into it from the surface will take more than an hour to reach the bottom.: "http://sciencefocus.com/qa/how-long-would-pebble-take-reach-bottom-mariana-trench"
Page 24, Position 3: Spiders can survive for hours underwater by entering a self-induced coma.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2009/04/090424-spider-resurrection-coma-drowning.html"
Page 24, Position 4: A bite from the Brazilian wandering spider results in an erection that lasts for several hours.: "http://www.livescience.com/4429-natural-viagra-spider-bite-erection.html"
Page 25, Position 1: In Britain, spiders outnumber people by more than 500,000 to 1.: "http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/327292-four-million-hairy-legs-per-person"
Page 25, Position 2: The Natural History Museum in London has 22,000 drawers filled with beetles.: "http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/beetles/2013/05/31/a- fishy-work-experience?fromGateway=true"
Page 25, Position 3: If dung beetles disappeared from the plains of Africa, its human inhabitants would be up to their waists in excrement within a month.: Daily Telegraph 12 Nov 2005 (quoting David Attenborough)
Page 25, Position 4: Until biological softener was invented in 1908, the standard way to soften leather was to smear it with dog faeces.: Uhlig, Helmut, Industrial enzymes and their applications (J. Wiley, 1998) p.353
Page 26, Position 1: Entrance to the Tower of London used to be free if you brought a dog or a cat to feed to the lions.: "http://www.lse.ac.uk/lifeAtLSE/London-Life/londonLandmarks.aspx"
Page 26, Position 2: The Eiffel Tower was scheduled to be pulled down in 1909.: "http://www.livescience.com/29391-eiffel-tower.html"
Page 26, Position 3: The Louvre was built in 1190 as a defence against Viking raids.: "http://traveltips.usatoday.com/louvre-museum-paris-france-60153.html"
Page 26, Position 4: The Statue of Liberty wears size 879 shoes.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/northamerica/usa/newyork/10157989/Statue-of-Liberty-50-fascinating-facts.html"
Page 27, Position 1: Charles II of England wore stilettos to his coronation.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21151350"
Page 27, Position 2: Samantha Cameron is the great-great-great-great-great-great-great- granddaughter of Charles II's mistress, Nell Gwyn.: "http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/samanthacameron/"
Page 27, Position 3: David Cameron is a great-great-great-great-great-grandson of King William IV.: "http://www.britroyals.com/faqs.htm"
Page 27, Position 4: At least 170 civil servants in the UK are paid more than the prime minister.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10200387"
Page 28, Position 1: The House of Commons chamber can only seat three-quarters of the country's MPs.: "http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1950/oct/24/motion-for-address-in-reply"
Page 28, Position 2: In July 2013, more people in Britain believed in ghosts than supported the Labour Party.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7996187.stm""http://www.theguardian.com/politics/datablog/2013/jul/15/tories-level-labour-poll-full-results"
Page 28, Position 3: More people in Britain describe their religion as 'Jedi Knight' than are members of the Tory party.: "http://politicalscrapbook.net/2012/12/star-bores-census-reveals-more-jedi-knights-than-lib-dems-or-tories/"
Page 28, Position 4: Since the 2001 census, the number of people in Britain claiming to be Jedi has fallen by more than half.: "http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/2011-census-unusual-trends-jedi-1485032"
Page 29, Position 1: Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter. He was fitting a door when George Lucas asked him to audition for Star Wars.: "http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AKqMW5ChgScC&pg=PA118&dq=harrison+ford+installing+door+zoetrope&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JlonUvL1JYbF7AbQ9IDIAQ&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=harrison%20ford%20installing%20door%20zoetrope&f=false"
Page 29, Position 2: Ozzy Osbourne worked in a morgue and a slaughterhouse.: "http://www.ozzyhead.com/faq.htm"
Page 29, Position 3: Warren Beatty worked as a rat-catcher.: "http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/movies/galleries/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=28102822&page=10"
Page 29, Position 4: Danny DeVito is a qualified hairdresser.: "http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/movies/galleries/gallery.aspx?cp-documentid=28102822&page=12"
Page 30, Position 1: The average woman has 150 different hairstyles in her lifetime.: "http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/toniampguy-survey-claims-women-have-150-hairstyles-in-a-lifetime/story-fneszy80-1226670204287"
Page 30, Position 2: In 1950, 7% of American women dyed their hair. In 2013, it was 75%.: "http://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/everyday-innovations/hair-coloring.htm"
Page 30, Position 3: Healthy hair can stretch by 50% when wet.: Kerr, Susan, The Health & Beauty Handbook (McGraw-Hill/Contemporary, 1 Aug 1997) p.59
Page 30, Position 4: Your hair grows more quickly when you're anticipating sex.: "http://hairlossgeeks.com/50-insane-facts-about-hair/"
Page 31, Position 1: Plants grow more quickly if you talk to them in a Geordie accent.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/9598253/Want-better-plants-Talk-to-them-in-a-Geordie-accent.html"
Page 31, Position 2: Magnolias are the oldest surviving flowering plants; they first appeared 100 million years ago.: "http://www.fbga.asn.au/MtLoftyBG.htm"
Page 31, Position 3: The rarest flower in Britain is the lady's slipper orchid: a single specimen lives on a golf course in Lancashire under police surveillance.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/8667684.stm"
Page 31, Position 4: The symbol of the Alzheimer's Society of Canada is the forget-me-not.: "http://www.alzheimer.ca/en/ns/About-us/About-the-Alzheimer-Society/Values/Forget-Me-Not-Symbol"
Page 32, Position 1: The existence of photographic memory has never been scientifically proven.: "http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=i-developed-what-appears-to-be-a-ph"
Page 32, Position 2: A decapitated planarian flatworm grows a new brain complete with all its old memories.: "http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/16/decapitated-worms-regrow-heads-keep-old-memories/"
Page 32, Position 3: A human liver can grow back even after 75% of it has been removed.: "http://www.pacifichealth.com/protocols/liver.html"
Page 32, Position 4: 95% of all avocados on sale today are descended from one tree grown by a Milwaukee postman in 1926.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Hass"
Page 33, Position 1: In French, avocat means both 'lawyer' and 'avocado'.: "http://www.wordreference.com/fren/avocat"
Page 33, Position 2: In German, Strauss means both 'ostrich' and 'bunch of flowers'.: "http://translation.babylon.com/german/Strauss/"
Page 33, Position 3: In Norwegian, pålegg is 'anything that could conceivably be put in a sandwich'.: "http://www.proz.com/kudoz/norwegian_to_english/other/100687-pÃ¥legg.html"
Page 33, Position 4: In Old Norse, kveis meant 'uneasiness after debauchery'.: "http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/hangover1.htm"
Page 34, Position 1: Gambrinous means 'being full of beer'.: "http://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/3802/Gambrinous"
Page 34, Position 2: Hops contain antioxidants, but you'd have to drink 118 gallons of beer a day to see any health benefit.: "http://www.livescience.com/13288-intoxicating-beer-facts-health.html"
Page 34, Position 3: French wrestler André the Giant once drank 119 beers in six hours.: "http://www.drunkard.com/issues/10_06/10_06_andre_giant.html"
Page 34, Position 4: In 1876, the Munich Health Department ruled that breastfeeding women only needed to drink two pints of beer a day.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/were-only-here-for-the-beer-1336900.html"
Page 35, Position 1: Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Raven' was originally going to be about a talking parrot.: "http://www.eapoe.org/works/mabbott/tom1p084.htm"
Page 35, Position 2: The last speaker of the Amazonian Ature language was a parrot.: "http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/upload/266d1c3b-ab4e-4690-8ffc-63ad04c4c32e_Muehlmann%202011.pdf"
Page 35, Position 3: Parrots can live for 80 years.: "http://www.parrotsr4ever.org/Long_Lives.aspx"
Page 35, Position 4: There are whales alive today that were born before Moby-Dick was written in 1851.: "http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/01/there-are-whales-alive-today-who-were-born-before-moby-dick-was-written/"
Page 36, Position 1: If a dead whale is found on a British beach, it is the legal property of the monarch.: "http://lawcommission.justice.gov.uk/docs/Legal_Oddities.pdf"
Page 36, Position 2: The first two police officers sworn into the Metropolitan Police were both later sacked for 'drunkenness in the streets'.: "http://www.historybytheyard.co.uk/1829-30_recruits.htm"
Page 36, Position 3: The 'de-militarised' zone between North and South Korea is the world's most militarised zone.: "http://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/index.php?i=15340&a=66345"
Page 36, Position 4: The 1784 'Kettle War' between the Netherlands and the Holy Roman Empire involved only a single shot. It hit a kettle.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettle_War"
Page 37, Position 1: 21% of British households don't possess a kettle.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9798786/Kettle-sales-lose-steam-as-coffee-machines-grow-ever-more-popular.html"
Page 37, Position 2: One in eight British adults owns a onesie.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2269995/Sales-onesies-soar-people-owns-adult-babygrows.html"
Page 37, Position 3: Two-thirds of British children aged 5 to 13 can work a DVD player, but fewer than half can tie their shoelaces.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/trending-kids-today-cant-even-tie-their-own-shoelaces-7536499.html"
Page 37, Position 4: 60% of British meals are eaten in front of the TV.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2292657/Britons-eat-meals-television-new-research-reveals-nation-dining-table-dodgers.html"
Page 38, Position 1: Early BBC TV showed pictures and sound alternately: they only had one transmitter so couldn't do both at the same time.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/resources/tvhistory/baird_bbc.shtml"
Page 38, Position 2: Until the 1920s, television was also known as Hear-seeing, Seeing by Wireless, Optiphone, Farscope and the Electric Telescope.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/resources/tvhistory/"
Page 38, Position 3: 'TV dinners' were so-called because the compartments resembled the screen and knobs on an old-style round-cornered TV.: "http://www.mortaljourney.com/2010/11/1950-trends/tv-dinners"
Page 38, Position 4: Rounded corners on electronic devices have been patented by Apple.: "http://freakonomics.com/2012/08/03/apple-vs-samsung-who-owns-the-rectangle/"
Page 39, Position 1: Nokia once made gas masks: the Finnish army used them until 1995.: Oldale, John, Who, or Why, or Which, or What (Particular Books, 2011) p.90
Page 39, Position 2: The French company Bich changed its name to Bic to stop people in English-speaking countries pronouncing it 'bitch'.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/the-secret-is-not-putting-too-fine-a-point-on-it-1524605.html"
Page 39, Position 3: Play-Doh was originally designed as wallpaper cleaner.: "http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/playdoh.htm"
Page 39, Position 4: The first bubblegum produced bubbles that had to be removed from the face with turpentine.: "http://www.wholepop.com/features/chewing_gum/blibber_blubber.htm"
Page 40, Position 1: James I of England only ever washed the tips of his fingers.: "http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/stuart.htm"
Page 40, Position 2: Louis XIII of France wasn't bathed until he was almost seven.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/non_fictionreviews/3672185/The-murky-past-of-cleanliness.html"
Page 40, Position 3: According to a passenger from Sudan, the first London Underground trains smelt 'like crocodile breath'.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/9478183/London-Underground-Tube-line-trivia.html"
Page 40, Position 4: The air in London is cleaner now than at any time since the 16th century.: "http://www.consumidoreslibres.org/cc_sd_final.pdf"
Page 41, Position 1: In the 16th century, Britain had one pub for every 200 people.: "http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/395706/Binge-drinking-Tudor-style-Even-in-the-16th-century-there-were-worries-about-boozing"
Page 41, Position 2: At any one time, 45 million people in the world are drunk.: Philbin, Tom, The Book of Percentages (Adams Media, 18 Jun 2009) p.59
Page 41, Position 3: Hangovers cost the US economy more than $220 billion in lost productivity each year.: "http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/the-economic-cost-of-hangovers/277546/"
Page 41, Position 4: A popular Roman hangover cure was deep-fried canary.: "http://www.channel4.com/4food/features/top-10s/holiday-hangover-cures"
Page 42, Position 1: Pliny the Elder advised tying a fox's genitals to the brow to cure headaches.: Pliny the Elder, The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 5 (G. Bell & sons) p.335â€¬â€¬â€¬â€¬
Page 42, Position 2: Chopin whistled or played chords on the piano when he had trouble urinating.: "http://bibliolore.org/2013/01/16/chopins-sympathetic-nerves/"
Page 42, Position 3: Giving Prozac to a snail renders it unable to stick to surfaces.: The Journal of Improbable Research, May 2013
Page 42, Position 4: Viagra was developed to treat angina.: "http://www.about-ed.com/viagra-history"
Page 43, Position 1: Fatal heart attacks were unknown before 1900. The first medical description of one in Britain was in 1925.: Le Fanu, James, The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine (Basic Books, 2012)
Page 43, Position 2: The human heart is not on the left-hand side of the body, it's in the middle.: "http://www.webmd.com/heart/picture-of-the-heart"
Page 43, Position 3: Each time a fertile man's heart beats, he makes 1,500 new sperm.: "http://blog.sciencemusings.com/2010/04/with-every-beat-of-my-heart.html"
Page 43, Position 4: Over a lifetime, the human heart pumps enough blood to fill a football stadium.: Clarke, Randolph Lee, The Book of Health: A Medical Encyclopedia for Everyone (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1973) p.194
Page 44, Position 1: In 1903, the three largest sports stadiums in the world were all in Glasgow.: Mortimer, Gavin, A History of Football in 100 Objects (Serpentâ€™s Tail 2012) p.41
Page 44, Position 2: The pregnancy of the frilled shark lasts for three years, the longest in nature.: "http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/12-animals-with-the-longest-gestation-period/sharks"
Page 44, Position 3: The tuatara, a New Zealand reptile that pre-dates the dinosaurs, has three eyes.: "http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/tuatara"
Page 44, Position 4: Babies have three times as many taste buds as adults.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/the-day-i-ate-like-a-baby-the-secret-to-having-a-happy-eater-8298315.html"
Page 45, Position 1: Squid taste with their tentacles.: "http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/jul/17/giant-squid-attack-san-diego-divers"
Page 45, Position 2: The Chinese fruit Siraitia grosvenorii is 300 times sweeter than sugar.: "http://www.olemu.com/siraitia_grosvenorii45864.htm"
Page 45, Position 3: The principal killer of elephants in American zoos is obesity.: "http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/to-measure-elephant-obesity-one-researcher-rates-pachydermal-butts/"
Page 45, Position 4: Americans eat three times more cheese than they did in 1970.: "http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2013/09/25/americans-eat-more-cheese-than-ever-before/#.Up8tlRZCgwQ"
Page 46, Position 1: Kunga cake is an East African food made from millions of crushed midges.: "http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/results.asp?image=041228"
Page 46, Position 2: The star-nosed mole can identify and eat an insect quicker than you can read the word 'mole'.: "http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/32505/title/A-Nose-for-Touch/"
Page 46, Position 3: Flamingo tongues were a delicacy in ancient Rome.: "http://www.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Flamingo_Feeding.html"
Page 46, Position 4: A tiger's tongue is so rough that if it licked your hand it would draw blood.: Higgins, Maria Mihalik, Cats: from tigers to tabbies (Discovery Channel Pub., 1998) p.25
Page 47, Position 1: More is known about the behaviour of big cats in Africa than that of domestic cats in Britain.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/secret-life-of-the-cat.html"
Page 47, Position 2: In 17th-century England, effigies of Guy Fawkes were stuffed with live cats to make the figure scream as it burned.: Sharpe, J.A. Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day (Harvard University Press, 2005) p.98
Page 47, Position 3: The Kattenstoet was a medieval festival in Belgium in which cats were thrown from the town's belfry.: "http://www.kattenstoet.be/en/home.html"
Page 47, Position 4: In 1879, the Belgian city of Liège commissioned 37 cats to deliver mail to nearby villages. The project was a complete failure.: "http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50815F8355B127B93C6A91788D85F428784F9"
Page 48, Position 1: John Lennon and Paul McCartney both had cats named Jesus.: "http://mentalfloss.com/article/29696/john-lennon-was-crazy-cat-lady"
Page 48, Position 2: The Beatles classic 'Yesterday' was originally titled 'Scrambled Eggs'.: "http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=82"
Page 48, Position 3: 'I'm a Poached Egg' is a love song by George Gershwin.: Furia, Philip, Ira Gershwin (Oxford University Press) p.241
Page 48, Position 4: Albert Einstein claimed his second-best idea was to boil his eggs in his soup, thus saving on washing-up.: "http://oaks.nvg.org/sa5ra17.html"
Page 49, Position 1: The Moon is shaped like an egg: it only looks round because the big end points towards Earth.: "http://lro.gsfc.nasa.gov/moonfacts.html"
Page 49, Position 2: The coldest known place in the Solar System is in a crater at the north pole of the Moon.: "http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091217/full/news.2009.1149.html"
Page 49, Position 3: Oymyakon in Russia is the coldest inhabited town on Earth: its only hotel has no hot water and an outside toilet.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8445831.stm"
Page 49, Position 4: Between 2010 and 2013, the London Fire Brigade rescued 18 children with their heads stuck in toilet seats.: "http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/news/LatestNewsReleases_2807201320.asp"
Page 50, Position 1: After just four moves in a game of chess, there are 318,979,564,000 possibilities for the layout of the board.: Darling, David, The Universal Book of Mathematics: From Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes (John Wiley & Sons, 28 Oct 2004) p.65
Page 50, Position 2: The 1978 chess final at HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs was between 'Moors Murderer' Ian Brady and disgraced MP John Stonehouse.: "http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jun/28/ian-brady-learned-moors-murderer"
Page 50, Position 3: In 1913, Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Tito, Freud, Jung and Wittgenstein were all living in Vienna.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22196605"
Page 50, Position 4: Dublin, Glasgow, London, Petroleum, Coal, Wax Goforth, Stay and Jump are all towns in Kentucky.: "https://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/"
Page 51, Position 1: The Irish pub furthest from Dublin is Waxy O'Shea's in Invercargill, New Zealand.: "http://www.waxys.co.nz"
Page 51, Position 2: Villages in County Durham include Pity Me and No Place.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pity_Me"
Page 51, Position 3: There are six villages in France called Silly, 12 called Billy and two called Prat.: "http://www.map-france.com/search/?search=silly""http://www.map-france.com/search/?search=billy""http://www.map-france.com/search/?search=prat"
Page 51, Position 4: There are 11 places in Utah called Mollys Nipple, Mollies Nipple or Molleys Nipple.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollie's_Nipple"
Page 52, Position 1: Female giant jumping rats have four nipples: two in the armpits and two in the groin.: "http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Jersey+Zoological+Park"
Page 52, Position 2: Buzz is Arabic for 'nipple'.: de Boinod, Adam Jacot, The Meaning of Tingo: and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World (Penguin UK, 5 Oct 2006)
Page 52, Position 3: Dad is Albanian for 'babysitter'.: de Boinod, Adam Jacot, The Meaning of Tingo: and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World (Penguin UK, 5 Oct 2006)
Page 52, Position 4: Waterponie is Afrikaans for 'jet-ski'.: de Boinod, Adam Jacot, The Meaning of Tingo: and Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World (Penguin UK, 5 Oct 2006)
Page 53, Position 1: 10,000 horses were killed at the battle of Waterloo.: "http://www.euronews.com/2010/06/22/re-enacting-the-battle-of-waterloo/"
Page 53, Position 2: The first Skyscraper was a particularly tall horse that won the Epsom Derby in 1789.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper_(horse)"
Page 53, Position 3: Snickers bars are named after a horse owned by the Mars company.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1947574/Mars-to-bring-back-Marathon-bars.html"
Page 53, Position 4: Humans have one more bone in their bodies than horses.: "http://www.eclectic-horseman.com/content/view/352/33/"
Page 54, Position 1: Human bone is four times stronger than concrete.: "http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?id=00000001839&action=displayContent"
Page 54, Position 2: Your brain cells live longer than any other cells in your body.: "http://www.livescience.com/27423-brain-cells-outlive-bodies.html"
Page 54, Position 3: You have taste receptors in your lungs.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1323501/Human-lungs-taste-buds-detect-bitter-substances.html"
Page 54, Position 4: The Cornish for 'heart' is colon.: "http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26192/26192-h/26192-h.htm"
Page 55, Position 1: Hands evolved before arms.: Schmidt, Hans-Martin and Lanz, Ulrich Surgical Anatomy of the Hand (Thieme, 20 Feb 2004) p.1
Page 55, Position 2: After a double hand transplant, right-handed patients can become left-handed.: "http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-04/07/double-hand-transplant-re-awakens-brain-control"
Page 55, Position 3: Mothers over 40 are twice as likely to have left-handed children as women in their 20s.: "http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg12717262.800-science-older-mothers-have-more-lefthanded-babies-.html"
Page 55, Position 4: Until the early 20th century, left-handedness in a wife was grounds for divorce in Japan.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-105625/Why-right-leftie.html"
Page 56, Position 1: The Japanese for 'poverty' is bimbo.: Buchanan, Daniel Crump, Japanese Proverbs and Sayings (University of Oklahoma Press, 1965) p.240
Page 56, Position 2: Raicho, meaning 'thunderbird', is Japanese for the rock ptarmigan or snow chicken.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raich%C5%8D"
Page 56, Position 3: Chicken, Alaska, was going to be called Ptarmigan, Alaska, but no one could agree on the spelling.: "http://www.livingalaskaproject.com/ptarmigan-pilgrimage/"
Page 56, Position 4: Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost and easternmost state in the USA.: "http://geography.about.com/b/2013/05/27/alaska-is-northernmost-westernmost-and-easternmost-state.htm"
Page 57, Position 1: 'Alaska strawberries' was 19th-century slang for 'dried beans'.: "http://prhs.ccrsb.ca/images/documents/Newsletter-June11.pdf"
Page 57, Position 2: Empress Isabelle of Bavaria bathed in strawberry juice.: "http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0A11FD355911738DDDAC0994DA415B8585F0D3"
Page 57, Position 3: In the Azerbaijani town of Naftalan, people bathe in crude oil to ease joint pains.: "http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/oct/19/oil-chloe-dewe-mathews-caspian"
Page 57, Position 4: Male eland antelopes let other males know how tough they are by clicking their knees.: "http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2008/11/04/eland-antelopes-click-their-knees-to-prove-their-dominance/"
Page 58, Position 1: Anglerfish have black-lined stomachs to stop their insides giving them away after they eat something luminous.: "http://www.marinebio.net/marinescience/04benthon/dswater.htm"
Page 58, Position 2: The longest recorded flight of a domestic chicken lasted 13 seconds.: "http://www.henkeeping.co.uk/strange-facts.html"
Page 58, Position 3: The highest-ever jump by a rabbit measured 3 feet 3 inches.: "http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-2000/highest-jump-by-a-rabbit/"
Page 58, Position 4: A rabbit was the only casualty of the first bomb in the Second World War to fall on British soil.: Key, Robert, 1945: The World We Fought For (Hamish Hamilton, 1985)
Page 59, Position 1: 95% of baby rabbits don't survive beyond their first six months.: "http://www.rabbitweb.net/wild-babies.asp"
Page 59, Position 2: In three years, two mating rabbits can theoretically produce 33 million relatives.: "http://www.south-kyme.co.uk/May%20June%20Issue%202013.pdf"
Page 59, Position 3: The world's biggest rabbit, Ralph from East Sussex, costs £50 a week to feed.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2301884/Hopping-worlds-fattest-Easter-bunny-Hungry-rabbit-Ralph-weighs-3st-8lbs--thats-heavier-average-year-old-child.html"
Page 60, Position 1: Earmuffs were invented by a 13-year-old.: "http://www.inventivekids.com/2012/03/12/march-13-is-ear-muff-day/"
Page 60, Position 2: Within seven years of their invention, 60% of the US population owned boomboxes.: "http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/guess-whats-the-fastest-adopted-gadget-of-the-last-50-years/254948/"
Page 60, Position 3: A collection of boomerangs and a Z-bed were found in Tutankhamun's tomb.: Fagan, Brian M. The 70 Greatest Inventions of the Ancient World (Thames & Hudson, 2004)
Page 60, Position 4: Tutankhamun died of a broken leg.: "http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/17/malaria-killed-king-tutankhamun"
Page 61, Position 1: Some whales are born with a small leg protruding from their body.: "http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/11/01/html/ft_20011101.4.html"
Page 61, Position 2: Whales have hip bones, which means they must have once left the oceans, grown legs, decided they didn't like it and gone back into the sea again.: "http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/ocean-giants/going-aquatic-cetacean-evolution/7577/"
Page 61, Position 3: The barstools on Aristotle Onassis's yacht were upholstered with whales' foreskins.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10162341/Aristotle-Onassiss-yacht-was-a-floating-Xanadu-that-seduced-them-all.html"
Page 61, Position 4: Moby-Dick was based on a real sperm whale called Mocha Dick.: "http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/mobydick.html"
Page 62, Position 1: Geronimo's real name was Goyathlay, meaning 'he who yawns'.: "http://www.indians.org/welker/geronimo.htm"
Page 62, Position 2: Yawning cools your brain, like a fan cools the inside of a computer.: "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/22/yawn-cool-brain_n_975927.html"
Page 62, Position 3: Babies yawn in the womb; they also swallow, stretch and hiccup.: "https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=15971"
Page 62, Position 4: Babies up to the age of six months can swallow and breathe at the same time.: "http://www.livescience.com/7468-hyoid-bone-changed-history.html"
Page 63, Position 1: Pandiculation is yawning and stretching at the same time.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 63, Position 2: There is enough tissue in a human lung to cover a tennis court.: "http://science.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/lungs-article/"
Page 63, Position 3: There is enough carbon in your body to make 9,000 pencils.: "http://www.indiana.edu/~ensiweb/chem.life.intro.html"
Page 63, Position 4: You lose a pound of carbon in weight every night just from breathing.: "http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/06/19/193556929/every-night-you-lose-more-than-a-pound-while-youre-asleep-for-the-oddest-reason"
Page 64, Position 1: Diamonds boil at 4,027°C.: "http://www.webelements.com/carbon/"
Page 64, Position 2: -40° Celsius and -40° Fahrenheit are the same temperature.: "http://www.weathernotebook.org/transcripts/1999/02/10.html"
Page 64, Position 3: 15°C is the highest temperature ever recorded in Antarctica.: "http://wmo.asu.edu/antarctica-highest-temperature"
Page 64, Position 4: There are 300 lakes beneath Antarctica that are kept from freezing by the warmth of the Earth's core.: "http://blogs.nature.com/news/2013/01/antarctic-team-reaches-lake-whillans.html"
Page 65, Position 1: Husky dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994.: "http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_antarctica/environment/wildlife/removal_of_sledge_dogs.php"
Page 65, Position 2: When Roald Amundsen travelled to the South Pole, he ate his huskies on the way back.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/south_approaches_01.shtml"
Page 65, Position 3: Only one dog has ever been to both the North and South Poles.: "http://articles.latimes.com/1985-01-06/news/mn-6925_1_sir-ranulph"
Page 65, Position 4: During the 1962 World Cup, a dog ran onto the pitch and urinated on Jimmy Greaves.: "http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/animal-pitch-invaders-cricketing-hogs-1872528"
Page 66, Position 1: Russian cosmonauts urinate on the right rear wheel of the bus taking them to the space shuttle to bring themselves luck.: "http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/12/yuri-gagarin-superstitions-space-russian-cosmonauts"
Page 66, Position 2: The 'I'm Feeling Lucky' button on Google costs the company $110 million a year in lost ad revenue.: "http://www.helium.com/items/1513852-google-im-feeling-lucky-search"
Page 66, Position 3: In 2006, a man named Ronald Man had a heart attack and crashed his car; the impact worked like a defibrillator and restarted his heart.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-380900/Car-crash-saves-heart-attack-victims-life.html"
Page 66, Position 4: James Dean's last appearance on film before his fatal car crash in 1955 was in a road-safety commercial.: "http://www.snopes.com/movies/actors/dean.asp"
Page 67, Position 1: In 1895, the only two cars in Ohio crashed into each other.: Transactions - National Safety Congress, National Safety Council (1955) p.111
Page 67, Position 2: The odds of hitting two holes-in-one in the same round of golf are 67 million to one.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291689/Golfer-defies-67m-odds-hit-holes-round.html"
Page 67, Position 3: Mo Farah, Sir Roger Bannister, Sir Chris Hoy, Jason Kenny and Sir Steve Redgrave were all born on March 23rd.: "http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/team-gb-medal-winners-were-1256892"
Page 67, Position 4: Moses, Raphael, Arnold Bennett, Captain Oates and Ingrid Bergman all died on their birthdays.: "http://www.born-today.com/Today/diedonbirthday.htm"
Page 68, Position 1: The ancient city of Alexandria was built so that the sun shone down the main street on Alexander the Great's birthday.: "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/alexandria-align-sun-alexander-great_n_1969570.html"
Page 68, Position 2: Galileo was born on the day that Michelangelo died.: "http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2013/02/11/130211crat_atlarge_gopnik"
Page 68, Position 3: People who die of old age are more likely to die at 11 a.m. than at any other time.: "http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/you-are-most-likely-to-die-at-11-am/265427/"
Page 68, Position 4: Three US presidents died on 4th July: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in 1826, and James Monroe five years later.: "http://www.livescience.com/37959-5-surprising-fourth-of-july-facts.html"
Page 69, Position 1: Between April and July 1776, US states issued more than 90 different Declarations of Independence.: "http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/07/06/reviews/970706.06ryersot.html"
Page 69, Position 2: John Adams, 2nd president of the USA, took up smoking at the age of eight.: "http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/g02.htm"
Page 69, Position 3: John Tyler, 10th president of the USA, was born in 1790 but two of his grandsons are still alive.: "http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/01/president-tyler-grandson-alive.html"
Page 69, Position 4: When George W. Bush, 43rd president of the USA, arrived in the White House, he found the Clinton administration had removed the 'W' keys from all the computers.: "http://www.salon.com/2001/05/23/vandals/"
Page 70, Position 1: 'President Clinton of the USA' is an anagram of 'to copulate, he finds interns'.: "http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/anagrams.html"
Page 70, Position 2: In 1999, the president of Niger was Major Wanke.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/574825.stm"
Page 70, Position 3: In 1939, 835 sheep were killed by a single lightning strike in Utah.: "http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=336&dat=19991228&id=Ot1WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=COwDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6941
Page 70, Position 4: The best way to avoid being struck by lightning is to crouch down away from any trees with your bottom sticking up in the air.: "http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/lightning-safety-tips/"
Page 71, Position 1: Blowing air up an armadillo's bottom causes it to leap three feet into the air.: "http://www.dirtdoctor.com/Armadillo_vq7.htm"
Page 71, Position 2: Air trapped inside hedgehogs can make them blow up like a balloon. They should be carefully deflated with a syringe before they burst.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-22631197"
Page 71, Position 3: The Victorians kept hedgehogs in their kitchens to control cockroaches.: "http://101londonmuseums.com/2013/03/04/13-the-dickens-museum/"
Page 71, Position 4: If a cockroach touches a person, it immediately runs away and washes itself.: "http://www.nwf.org/News-and-Magazines/National-Wildlife/Animals/Archives/1993/The-Bug-We-Love-to-Hate.aspx"
Page 72, Position 1: Rats urinate on food to mark it as edible.: "http://www.ratbehavior.org/UrineMarking.htm"
Page 72, Position 2: Monkeys urinate on themselves to attract a mate.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/8345552/Monkeys-urinate-on-themselves-to-attract-a-mate.html"
Page 72, Position 3: An ostrich can kill a lion with a single blow.: "http://www.elpasozoo.org/Africa-ostrich.php"
Page 72, Position 4: Being attacked by an ostrich left Johnny Cash with an addiction to painkillers.: "http://sabotagetimes.com/music/the-man-in-black-and-the-ostrich-attack-how-an-ostrich-set-johnny-cash-back-on-the-road-to-addiction/"
Page 73, Position 1: Early Arabic texts refer to cannabis as 'the bush of understanding' and 'the shrub of emotion'.: Booth, Martin, Cannabis: A History (Random House, 30 Sep 2011) p.66
Page 73, Position 2: In 1850, cannabis was used in the USA to treat tetanus, typhus, cholera, rabies, dysentery, alcoholism, anthrax, leprosy, snake bites, tonsillitis and insanity.: Booth, Martin, Cannabis: A History (Random House, 30 Sep 2011) p.66
Page 73, Position 3: Ketamine was the most commonly used anaesthetic during the Vietnam War.: "http://projectghb.org/content/ketamine-information"
Page 73, Position 4: A Macedonian soldier from 300 bc was more likely to survive treatment for a wound than a British soldier at Sebastopol in 1854.: BBC History Magazine, November 2012
Page 74, Position 1: Patients admitted to hospital at the weekend are 40% more likely to die than those admitted during the working week.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9611577/Hospital-death-rates-jump-at-the-weekend-by-up-to-40-per-cent.html"
Page 74, Position 2: A human being can survive for nine seconds at 1,000 °C without suffering lasting damage.: Wonderpedia Magazine July 2013
Page 74, Position 3: Since 1940, 157 people have fallen from planes without parachutes and survived.: "http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/safety/4344036"
Page 74, Position 4: Since 1990, more people have been killed by sandcastles than by sharks.: "http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2007/06/danger-lurking-at-seaside.html"
Page 75, Position 1: Shark Bay, Australia, is now called 'Safety Beach'. It changed its name to attract tourists.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/internationalproperty/3361110/Property-in-Australia-Off-to-Oz-Good-on-ya-mate.html"
Page 75, Position 2: Kangaroo Island was named in 1802 by Matthew Flinders after he and his crew slaughtered 31 kangaroos there and made them into soup.: "http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/ki.htm"
Page 75, Position 3: At birth, a kangaroo is smaller than a cherry.: "http://animals.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/mammals/gray-kangaroo/"
Page 75, Position 4: Because opossums have forked penises, early naturalists thought males mated with the female's nose.: "http://www2.dnr.cornell.edu/ext/info/pubs/Wildlife/NYwildlife/virginia%20opossum.pdf"
Page 76, Position 1: A renifleur is someone who gets sexual pleasure from smells.: "http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/renifleur"
Page 76, Position 2: The human nose can distinguish between over 10,000 different smells.: "http://science.howstuffworks.com/life/human-biology/question139.htm"
Page 76, Position 3: Rhinotillexomania is the scientific term for being unable to stop picking your nose.: "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7852253"
Page 76, Position 4: It is impossible to hum while holding your nose.: "http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pinch-Your-Nose-Try-Hum/dp/0340584181"
Page 77, Position 1: Humpback whales can sing non-stop for 20 hours.: "http://www.nature.com/news/1999/991105/full/news991111-1.html"
Page 77, Position 2: Nightingales can remember over 200 different songs.: "http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/29458/title/Ruffling-feathers/"
Page 77, Position 3: The fastest known muscle in nature is found in the throats of songbirds.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2008/07/080710-fastest-muscle_2.html"
Page 77, Position 4: The superb fairy wren teaches its chicks to sing while they are still in the egg.: "http://www.theguardian.com/science/grrlscientist/2012/nov/13/animalbehaviour-zoology"
Page 78, Position 1: Ludo was invented in ancient India.: "http://gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/VirtualExhibits/Whitehill/parcheesi/"
Page 78, Position 2: Jenga means 'to build' in Swahili.: "http://hasbro.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/97/~/jenga-facts"
Page 78, Position 3: Chinese checkers was invented in Germany.: "http://www.playchinesecheckers.com/CCHistory.html"
Page 78, Position 4: Samuel Taylor Coleridge invented the sport of rock-climbing.: "http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/12/unjustifiable-risk-story-british-climbing"
Page 79, Position 1: William Webb Ellis died in France, completely unaware he had been credited with the invention of rugby.: "http://www.therugbyhistorysociety.co.uk/didhe.html"
Page 79, Position 2: The French Vichy government banned rugby league because they considered it a communist sport.: Morning Star, 22 Oct 07
Page 79, Position 3: Rugby School's first official rugby kit in 1871 included a bow tie.: "http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/apparel.htm"
Page 79, Position 4: The Nazi uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2413371/Shameful-truth-Hugo-Bosss-links-Nazis-revealed-As-Russell-Brand-thrown-party-accusing-fashion-designer-helping-Hitler.html"
Page 80, Position 1: When Josef Mengele fled to Argentina he went through customs with several suitcases full of human body parts.: Goni, Uki, The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina (Granta, 2002)
Page 80, Position 2: Iran is the only country in the world where it is legal to sell your kidneys.: "http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/27/iran-legal-trade-kidney"
Page 80, Position 3: In Alabama, it is illegal to recommend shades of paint without a licence.: "http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2008/08/license_to_design"
Page 80, Position 4: The Knights Templar's most important rule was to avoid kissing women.: Addison, Charles G., The History of the Knights Templar (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852) p.13
Page 81, Position 1: The ancient Greek city of Megara held a version of the Olympic Games which included a kissing contest. Only boys were allowed to enter.: "http://www.lilith-ezine.com/articles/sex/The-History-of-the-Kiss.html"
Page 81, Position 2: PE teachers were originally banned from the modern Olympics because they were professionals.: "http://www.cnrs.fr/cw/en/pres/compress/dopage/dopage2.html"
Page 81, Position 3: At the 1908 Olympic Games in London, Great Britain won gold, silver and bronze in the tug of war.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tug_of_war_at_the_1908_Summer_Olympics"
Page 81, Position 4: The Kalenjin people of Kenya make up 0.05% of the world's population but have won almost 50% of its major distance-running events since 1980.: "http://anthropology.ua.edu/bindon/ant475/Papers/Beardsley.pdf"
Page 82, Position 1: The fastest 100 metres run by an eight-year-old today would have won bronze at the 1896 Olympics.: "http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/05/sports/olympics/the-100-meter-dash-one-race-every-medalist-ever.html"
Page 82, Position 2: The 1988 Olympics included the sport of solo synchronised swimming.: "http://www.olympic.org/Assets/OSC%20Section/pdf/QR_sports_summer/Sports_Olympiques_natation_synchronisÃ©e_eng.pdf"
Page 82, Position 3: Polar bears can swim 60 miles without stopping.: "http://www.nhptv.org/natureworks/polar.htm"
Page 82, Position 4: An ostrich could run the London Marathon in 45 minutes.: "http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/physics/animal-kingdom-top-marathon-runners-ostrich"
Page 83, Position 1: A garden snail would take three years and two months to make its way from John O'Groats to Land's End.: The End to End Story at Landâ€™s End (exhibition)
Page 83, Position 2: Light travels from John O'Groats to Land's End in 0.00469 seconds.: The End to End Story at Landâ€™s End (exhibition)
Page 83, Position 3: 8,000 years ago, Britain had so many trees that a squirrel could go from John O'Groats to Land's End without touching the ground.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2004/08_august/26/british_isles.pdf"
Page 83, Position 4: Nemophilia is the love of spending time in forests.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 84, Position 1: Two out of three trees in the world are dangerously parched.: "http://www.npr.org/2013/04/28/179675435/the-sounds-of-thirsty-trees"
Page 84, Position 2: The only way to tell if trees are short of water is to record the sounds they make: the thirstier they are, the louder they get.: "http://www.npr.org/2013/04/28/179675435/the-sounds-of-thirsty-trees"
Page 84, Position 3: Different branches on the same ash tree can be male, female or both at once.: "http://www.rfs.org.uk/learning/Ash"
Page 84, Position 4: Oysters change their sex up to four times a year.: Stott, Rebecca, Oyster (Reaktion Books, 2004) p.29
Page 85, Position 1: Fruit bats enjoy fellatio.: "http://www.livescience.com/9754-surprising-sex-behavior-bats.html"
Page 85, Position 2: Men are more likely to die during sex if they're cheating on their wives.: "http://www.nbcnews.com/health/men-who-cheat-their-wives-more-likely-die-heart-attack-795283"
Page 85, Position 3: More than one-third of men using dating sites are already married.: "http://www.onlinedatingmagazine.com/features/marriedmen.html"
Page 85, Position 4: More than one-third of married Canadians sleep in separate rooms.: "http://www.gh-exams.com/a-third-of-married-couples-in-canada-have-separate-bedrooms/"
Page 86, Position 1: Ptolemy VII married his sister Cleopatra II, who was also his brother's widow. So his wife was not only his sister but his sister-in-law.: "http://utpress.utexas.edu/index.php/books/staprt"
Page 86, Position 2: Einstein, Rachmaninoff, Darwin, H. G. Wells and Edgar Allan Poe all married their first cousins.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coupled_cousins"
Page 86, Position 3: When filling in forms, Agatha Christie always gave her occupation as 'married woman'.: "http://caravanmagazine.in/books/murder-she-wrote"
Page 86, Position 4: 90% of the world's teenage mothers aged 16 to 19 are married.: "http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/07/14/world-population-day-2013-a-spotlight-on-adolescent-pregnancy/"
Page 87, Position 1: In London, women over 40 are giving birth at twice the rate of teenagers.: "http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article3623319.ece"
Page 87, Position 2: In Mexican slang, to 'mother' something is to wreck it, anything that 'has no mother' is very cool, and 'mothers!' means 'whoops!.: "http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2010/10/mexican_slang"
Page 87, Position 3: In Korean, there are no words for 'brother' or 'sister', but there are words for an older or younger brother, and an older or younger sister.: Sohn, Ho-Min, Korean (Routledge, 1994) p.532
Page 87, Position 4: Having a younger brother or sister can increase your blood pressure by more than 5%.: "http://www.livescience.com/24855-brothers-raise-blood-pressure.html"
Page 88, Position 1: It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.: "http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Kenai/community/2013_article/07052013.html"
Page 88, Position 2: A midge beats its wings 62,750 times a minute.: "http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/nmnh/buginfo/insflght.htm"
Page 88, Position 3: It takes a male flea six to eight hours to unfold all the different parts of its penis.: "http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20000811/ai_n14321234"
Page 88, Position 4: Woodlice have 14 legs.: "http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/Documents/Woodlice%20fact%20sheet.pdf"
Page 89, Position 1: The vampire spider is attracted to the smell of human feet.: "http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/nature/news-vampire-spider-attracted-smell-human-feet"
Page 89, Position 2: Mice enjoy the smell of marijuana.: "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/25/stoner-mice-eat-marijuana_n_2552594.html"
Page 89, Position 3: The Japanese word kareishu describes the smell of old people.: "http://www.nbcnews.com/health/old-person-smell-real-yes-its-not-what-you-think-803558"
Page 89, Position 4: Moths can smell one another from seven miles away.: "http://www.livescience.com/21933-moth-week-facts.html"
Page 90, Position 1: The faint trace of perfume left in the wake of a passing person is known as sillage.: "http://boisdejasmin.com/2011/02/perfume-vocabulary-fragrance-terms-sillage.html"
Page 90, Position 2: In 2007, the makers of Stilton marketed Eau de Stilton, a perfume to 'recreate the earthy and fruity aroma' of the cheese.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/4761989.stm"
Page 90, Position 3: A 'cheeseling' is a small cheese.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 90, Position 4: 'Cheeselips' is another name for woodlice: they were once used to curdle milk.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 91, Position 1: A glass of milk left in the Lut Desert in Iran will not go off: the heat is so intense it kills all the bacteria.: "http://www.explorra.com/attractions/lut-desert_8918"
Page 91, Position 2: All Neanderthals were lactose intolerant.: "http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16224-neanderthal-genome-already-giving-up-its-secrets.html"
Page 91, Position 3: Lee Pearson, winner of ten Paralympic golds for dressage, is allergic to horses.: "http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/paralympics-dressage-star-lee-pearson-1289024"
Page 91, Position 4: Pigs suffer from anorexia.: "http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/103764.article"
Page 92, Position 1: There were fewer than 50 restaurants in Paris before the 1789 Revolution; by 1814 there were more than 3,000.: Kelly, Ian, Cooking for Kings (Short Books 2003)
Page 92, Position 2: The first Indian restaurant in the UK opened 50 years before the first fish-and-chip shop.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4290124.stm""http://www.federationoffishfriers.co.uk/pages/facts-and-figures-603.htm"
Page 92, Position 3: The oldest known English cookbook is called the Forme of Cury.: "http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/"
Page 92, Position 4: An English person from 2013 could not understand an English person from 1300 without a translator.: "http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Devon/Exeter"
Page 93, Position 1: In the 14th century, a high-spirited person was known as a 'great-willy'.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 93, Position 2: Great Cockup is a hill in Cumbria. Other Great British place names include Great Snoring and Great Fryup.: "http://www.ashton-under-lyne.com/placenames.htm"
Page 93, Position 3: Fletcher Christian and William Wordsworth were at school together in Cockermouth, Cumbria.: "http://www.lakedistrictletsgo.co.uk/famous_people/williamwordsworth.html"
Page 93, Position 4: Wordsworth had no sense of smell.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2026464/Anosmia-Wonder-like-sense-smell-It-stinks.html"
Page 94, Position 1: Before sending his six-year-old son, Auberon, to boarding school, Evelyn Waugh threatened to change the family name to Stinkbottom.: "http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/8059231/memories-and-inspirations/"
Page 94, Position 2: Daniel Defoe changed his name from Daniel Foe in order to sound more upmarket.: "http://www.biography.com/people/daniel-defoe-9269678"
Page 94, Position 3: Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's was originally going to be called Connie Gustafson.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/truman-capotes-heroine-holly-golightly-by-another-name-8557496.html"
Page 94, Position 4: James Bond was originally going to be called James Secretan.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/the-names-secretan-james-secretan-early-draft-of-casino-royale-reveals-what-ian-fleming-wanted-to-call-his-super-spy-8572375.html"
Page 95, Position 1: Margaret Thatcher was offered passport number 007 but she turned it down.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/diary-1305663.html"
Page 95, Position 2: Brendan O'Carroll, star of Mrs Brown's Boys, was once Mrs Thatcher's butler.: "http://www.theguardian.com/media/mediamonkeyblog/2013/apr/18/mrs-browns-boys-thatcher"
Page 95, Position 3: In the 19th century, a five-foot six-inch footman cost £20 a year, while a full six-footer would set you back £40.: May, Trevor, The Victorian Domestic Servant, (Osprey Publishing, 1998)
Page 95, Position 4: When they reach a height of 100 metres, trees stop growing leaves.: "http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729004.800-why-trees-cant-grow-taller-than-100-metres.html#.UjBXixYTNz8"
Page 96, Position 1: Ten trees were needed to make the paper to print the 2013 report on the environmental impact of the British HS2 rail scheme.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2283974/Ten-trees-needed-make-just-copy-50-000-page-HS2-green-report.html"
Page 96, Position 2: The British Standards Institution has a 5,000 word report on the correct way to make a cup of tea.: "http://www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/oct/02/10"
Page 96, Position 3: When Swindon station opened in 1840, all the trains passing through it had to stop for a ten-minute tea break.: "http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/675915.how_town_was_put_on_the_map_by_brunel/"
Page 96, Position 4: British soldiers in the First World War had a tea ration of six pints a day.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/49/a4046249.shtml"
Page 97, Position 1: Turning up the music in a bar by 22% makes people drink 26% faster.: "http://gizmodo.com/5928061/how-bars-use-music-to-get-you-drunk-faster"
Page 97, Position 2: To 'dibble' is to drink like a duck, lifting your head after each sip.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 97, Position 3: Lifting your head on a neutron star would use more energy than climbing Mount Everest.: Arnold, Nick, The Seriously Squishy Science Book (Horrible Science 2007) p.71
Page 97, Position 4: The energy burned off by the average footballer in a single match is equivalent to 15 Jaffa Cakes.: Evening Standard [London (UK)] 07 May 2002
Page 98, Position 1: Boys' GCSE results dip by almost half a grade in World Cup and European Championship years.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069435/Euro-2012-TV-hit-GCSE-results.html"
Page 98, Position 2: 60% of Premier League footballers go bankrupt within five years of retirement.: "http://espnfc.com/conversation?id=1362310&cc=5739"
Page 98, Position 3: Somebody in the UK is declared bankrupt every 50 seconds.: "http://www.moneywise.co.uk/investing/financial-goals/20-ways-to-escape-debt-good"
Page 98, Position 4: Plutomania is the delusion that one is immensely rich.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 99, Position 1: Hewlett-Packard printer ink is 20 times more expensive than 2003 vintage Dom Pérignon champagne.: "http://planetivy.com/news/9355/printer-ink-more-expensive -than-dom-perignon-infographic/"
Page 99, Position 2: It is 14 million times cheaper to store 1gb of data on a hard drive than it was in 1981.: "http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/02/18/amazing-facts-and-figures-about-the-evolution-of-hard-disk-drives/"
Page 99, Position 3: There are 2,436 millionaire bankers in the UK, compared to 170 in Germany and 162 in France.: "http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/24/cap-top-bankers-pay"
Page 99, Position 4: The best credit profiles in the UK are held by men named Brian and women called Helen.: "http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cardsloans/article-2215569/Well-Brian-Helen-People-names-best-credit-profiles-average-UK.html"
Page 100, Position 1: Julius Caesar had two sisters, both called Julia.: "http://www.allabouthistory.org/julius-caesar-history-faq.htm"
Page 100, Position 2: Karl and Jenny Marx named all four of their daughters Jenny.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_von_Westphalen"
Page 100, Position 3: George Foreman has five sons called George: George Jr, George III, George IV, George V and George VI, and a daughter called Georgetta.: "http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/gossip/lat-mg-babynames-georgeforeman-la0004116388-20130314
Page 100, Position 4: Emlyn Hughes's son is called Emlyn and his daughter, Emma-Lynn.: "http://www.theguardian.com/football/2001/jun/20/theknowledge.sport"
Page 101, Position 1: Almost half of newly hatched storks abandon their nest to look for a foster parent who might feed them better.: "http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/60703/1/nest%20switching.pdf"
Page 101, Position 2: At least 60% of species on Earth are parasites.: "http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929270.300-parasitism-is-the-most-popular-lifestyle-on-earth.html#.UfYsVKUTPfY"
Page 101, Position 3: There are ten times more bacterial cells in your body than human ones.: "http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-humans-carry-more-bacterial-cells-than-human-ones"
Page 101, Position 4: The average human navel contains 67 different species of bacteria.: "http://web.ncsu.edu/abstract/science/wms-belly-button-biodiversity/"
Page 102, Position 1: Omphalodium is another name for tummy button.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 102, Position 2: Michelangelo was called a heretic for giving Adam a belly button on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.: "http://www.theologynetwork.org/blog/2008-08/navel-or-no"
Page 102, Position 3: Rembrandt's The Night Watch was so over-restored in the 1940s it was nicknamed The Day Watch.: "http://www.rembrandtpainting.net/rembrandt's_night_watch.htm"
Page 102, Position 4: Edvard Munch's The Scream is based on a Peruvian mummy he saw in a Paris museum.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/mummies_01.shtml"
Page 103, Position 1: The Louvre has a naked version of the Mona Lisa, painted by one of Da Vinci's pupils.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SalaÃ¬"
Page 103, Position 2: Victor Hugo made detailed erotic drawings of all the women he slept with.: Grunfeld, Frederick V., Rodin: A Biography (Oxford University Press, 1989)
Page 103, Position 3: The most expensive sex position offered by ancient Greek prostitutes was called keles, 'the racehorse'.: "http://factsanddetails.com/world.php?itemid=2019&catid=56"
Page 103, Position 4: Buckingham Palace is built on the site of a brothel.: "http://city-of-london.com/london-attractions-buckingham-palace.html"
Page 104, Position 1: When Queen Victoria arrived in 1837, there were no bathrooms in Buckingham Palace.: "http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/autumn00/bathe.cfm"
Page 104, Position 2: The word 'palace' comes from the Palatine Hill in Rome, where the emperors lived.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=palace"
Page 104, Position 3: The Roman emperor Elagabalus invented a whoopee cushion which he used at dinner parties.: Ball, Warwick, Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire (Routledge, 4 Jan 2002) p.412
Page 104, Position 4: Whoopi Goldberg got her nickname from her childhood flatulence.: "http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2010/jul/07/whoopi-goldberg-west-end-sister-act"
Page 105, Position 1: Laurel and Hardy are known as Dick and Doof in Germany and Gog and Cokke in Denmark.: Louvish, Simon, Stan and Ollie: The roots of comedy (St. Martin's Griffin June 23, 2005) p.22
Page 105, Position 2: In 1379, more than 600 years ago, a baby girl in Yorkshire was christened Diot Coke.: "http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1760572"
Page 105, Position 3: The Mayan calendar had 18 months, including 'Pop', 'Zip', 'Zac', 'Mac' and 'Moan'.: Thomas, Cyrus, The Maya Year (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894)
Page 105, Position 4: The Comper Mouse, Currie Wot, Dart Kitten, English Electric Wren, Luton Minor, Thruxton Jackaroo, Pobjoy Pirate, Sopwith Grasshopper and Watkinson Dingbat are all names of early British aeroplanes.: Watkinson Dingbat (wikipedia)"Comper Mouse (wikipedia)"Currie Wot (wikipedia)"Dart Kitten (wikipedia)"English Electric Wren (wikipedia)"Pobjoy Pirate (wikipedia)"Sopwith Grasshopper (wikipedia)"Thruxton Jackaroo (wikipedia); "http://www.lutonminor.com"
Page 106, Position 1: Aerodontia is the branch of dentistry dealing with problems caused by flying.: "http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/aerodontia"
Page 106, Position 2: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand 1/2,500 of an inch in diameter.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/health/mary-roach-on-studying-food-and-how-humans-eat-it.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0"
Page 106, Position 3: Carp have teeth in their throats.: "http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-eastman/reprints/003%20Eastman%201971.pdf"
Page 106, Position 4: A blue whale's throat is the same diameter as its navel: about the size of a side plate.: "http://articles.latimes.com/1998/nov/22/news/mn-46395""http://seymourcenter.ucsc.edu/PDF/Ms.%20Blue's%20Measurements%20Summary.pdf"
Page 107, Position 1: The krill eaten by a blue whale every day weigh as much as 40,000 cheeseburgers.: "http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/blue-whale/"
Page 107, Position 2: One krill is no longer than your little finger, but their swarms are so big they can be seen from space.: "http://animals.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/invertebrates/krill/"
Page 107, Position 3: An astronaut is someone who flies aircraft higher than 50 miles above sea level.: "http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-perspec-0115-things-20120114
Page 107, Position 4: When Skylab burned up in Earth's atmosphere in 1979, the government of Western Australia fined NASA $400 for littering. The fine was eventually paid in 2009.: "http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2009/07/09/2621733.htm""http://news.yahoo.com/skylabs-grave-remains-1st-american-space-station-australia-102152606.html"
Page 108, Position 1: In the USA, one-third of the domestic waste sent to landfill is grass clippings.: "http://www.thelawninstitute.org/education/?c=183384"
Page 108, Position 2: Five species of grass account for half the calories in the human diet.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poaceae"
Page 108, Position 3: Americans eat 10 billion doughnuts every year.: "http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/extras/2013/06/07/instant-index-philadelphia-orchestra-plays-for-flight-stuck-on-the-runway/"
Page 108, Position 4: Obese drivers are almost twice as likely to die in a car accident.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9817496/Obese-drivers-more-likely-to-die-in-car-crashes.html"
Page 109, Position 1: Car doors injure around 600 cyclists in the UK every year.: Carmarthen Journal 20 Mar 2013
Page 109, Position 2: Tolstoy had his first cycling lesson at 67.: "http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/how-tolstoy-learned-to-ride-a-bike-and-other-tales-of-late-life-learning/"
Page 109, Position 3: Elgar had a bicycle called 'Mr Phoebus'.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dutch-take-to-elgars-song-cycle-1283932.html"
Page 109, Position 4: The Arabic word for a hamster translates as 'Mr Saddlebags'.: "http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/The-Untold-Story-of-the-Hamster-aka-Mr-Saddlebags.html"
Page 110, Position 1: Rodents prefer peanut butter to cheese.: "http://departments.juniata.edu/biology/eco/documents/Anderson_etal.pdf"
Page 110, Position 2: The world's largest rodent was a Venezuelan guinea pig the size of a buffalo.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2003/09/0922_030922_giantrodent.html"
Page 110, Position 3: The world's largest land invertebrate was Arthropleura, a ten-foot millipede that lived in prehistoric Scotland.: "http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/15/largest_landdwelling_bug_of_al/"
Page 110, Position 4: The bird with the largest vocabulary was Puck the Budgie, who died in 1998. He knew 1,728 words, the same as a four-year-old child.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2222115/Chatty-pets-A-beluga-whale-astounds-keepers-speaking-like-human.html"
Page 111, Position 1: The recently extinct Ubykh language of southern Russia had 84 consonants but only two vowels.: "http://languagesoftheworld.info/geolinguistics/obituary-the-ubykh-language.html"
Page 111, Position 2: The Sedang language of Laos and Vietnam has more than 50 vowel sounds.: "http://www.translateme.co.nz/Langauge_Trivia_Folder/how_we_talk.htm"
Page 111, Position 3: Oaia aia e a ei' is a Romanian sentence made only of vowels. It means 'That sheep is hers..: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/yoursay/weird_words/other_languages/who_needs_consonants_norwegian.shtml"
Page 111, Position 4: Vowel-schmowel: the practice of adding a rhyming word beginning with sch- to another is called 'shm-reduplication'.: "http://www.academia.edu/209796/Metalinguistic_shmetalinguistic_The_phonology_of_shm-reduplication"
Page 112, Position 1: We dot our 'i's, but Shakespeare 'tittled' his.: "http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/jot-or-tittle.html"
Page 112, Position 2: The poet A. E. Housman kept a notebook in which he jotted down insults and unpleasant remarks that occurred to him.: Irvine, William B., A Slap in the Face: Why Insults Hurt--And Why They Shouldn't (Oxford University Press, 11 Jan 2013)
Page 112, Position 3: 'Son-of-a-bitch stew' was a cowboy dish made from the internal organs of a whole cow and an onion.: Davidson, Alan, The Penguin Companion to Food (Penguin Books (UK), 2002) p.880
Page 112, Position 4: Sob Lake in Canada began life as 'Son of a Bitch Lake'. It was named after a trapper who had a log cabin on its shore.: Akrigg, G.V.P. and Akrigg, Helen B., 1001 British Columbia place names (Discovery Press, 1970) p.9
Page 113, Position 1: Jellyfish Lake in the Philippines contains more than 13 million jellyfish.: "http://www.coralreefresearchfoundation.org/CRRFassets/Reports/OTM_FactSheet.pdf"
Page 113, Position 2: Rudyard Kipling got his name from Rudyard Lake, Staffordshire, the place where his parents met.: "http://www.rlsr.org/Lake.htm"
Page 113, Position 3: Fish in polluted lakes lose their sense of smell.: "http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/2013/fish-smell"
Page 113, Position 4: Sunbathing on the shore of Lake Karachai in Russia for one hour can give you a fatal dose of radiation.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2215023/Is-polluted-place-Earth-The-Russian-lake-hour-beach-kill-you.html"
Page 114, Position 1: There is one Kalashnikov in circulation for every 70 people on Earth.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/business/a-kalashnikov-factory-in-russia-survives-on-sales-to-us-gun-owners.html?pagewanted=all"
Page 114, Position 2: IKEA sells one bookcase somewhere in the world every ten seconds.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20123362"
Page 114, Position 3: Heinz sells two sachets of ketchup each year for every person on Earth.: "http://www.heinz.com/our-company/press-room/trivia.aspx"
Page 114, Position 4: Heinz baked beans were first sold in Britain at Fortnum & Mason, as an exclusive luxury imported from America.: "http://transitionculture.org/2013/01/14/the-british-bean-is-back-an-interview-with-josiah-meldrum-of-hodmedod-and-a-transition-culture-competition/"
Page 115, Position 1: Every Heinz baked bean passes through a laser beam to check that it is the right colour.: "http://www.heinz.co.uk/ourfood/beans/didyouknow"
Page 115, Position 2: The first laser was said to have the power of one 'Gillette' as it could burn through a single razor blade.: "http://www.aps.org/programs/education/highschool/teachers/upload/Physics-of-Lasers-Teacher-Edition.pdf"
Page 115, Position 3: In the first seven years after it opened in 2001, only one company traded on the Cameroon stock exchange.: "http://www.economist.com/node/18958611"
Page 115, Position 4: The central European republic of Carpatho-Ruthenia existed for just one day, in 1939.: "http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ua-cu39.html"
Page 116, Position 1: There is only one Jewish citizen in Afghanistan.: "http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/lone-jewish-resident-afghanistan-kosher-diet-maintains-tradition-article-1.962726"
Page 116, Position 2: There are only two mentions of sneezing in the Bible.: "http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Kings+4:35&version=NKJV""http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+41:18&version=NKJV"
Page 116, Position 3: The Russian village of Kozino has only one resident, a 76-year-old woman called Rimma.: "http://www.geographical.co.uk/Magazine/Dying_villages_-_Sep_12.html"
Page 116, Position 4: The Andamanese language has only two words for numbers: they mean 'one' and 'more than one'.: "http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/23511/Andamanese-language"
Page 117, Position 1: More than 800 languages are spoken in New York today.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/nyregion/29lost.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0"
Page 117, Position 2: Ancient Rome was eight times more densely populated than modern New York.: The Observer, 28th October 2012
Page 117, Position 3: At the end of Roman mime plays, audiences could demand that the female lead strip on stage.: Manuwald, Gesine, Roman Republican Theatre, (Cambridge University Press (9 Jun 2011)) p.179
Page 117, Position 4: In the 1970s, the British stripper Frank Jakeman insured his penis for £1 million.: "http://www.businessinsider.com/10-of-the-worlds-craziest-insurance-policies-2010-3?op=1"
Page 118, Position 1: In Norway, stripping counts as an art form for tax purposes.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6213222.stm"
Page 118, Position 2: In the USA, ransom payments to kidnappers are tax-deductible.: "http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/09/05/pay-ransom-save-income-tax/"
Page 118, Position 3: In Armenia, chess is a compulsory school subject.: "http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/03/201331792224757326.html"
Page 118, Position 4: Eton College was founded to provide free schooling for poor boys.: "http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/harrymount/100069421/every-school-could-do-with-a-little-bit-of-eton/"
Page 119, Position 1: Jean-Jacques Rousseau gave all five of his children to a foundling hospital so they wouldn't interfere with his work.: "http://www.historyguide.org/europe/rousseau.html"
Page 119, Position 2: By the time they reach 17, most British children will have been driven 80,000 miles by their parents.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1481137/Parents-drive-5000-miles-every-year-for-children.html"
Page 119, Position 3: The average British child makes its first mobile-phone call at the age of eight.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/4680507/Children-get-first-mobile-phone-at-average-age-of-eight.html"
Page 119, Position 4: There are 300,000 child soldiers in the world.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconflict/soldier.shtml"
Page 120, Position 1: There is only one pig in Afghanistan.: "http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/emmahartley/9729687/Afghanistan_only_has_one_pig/"
Page 120, Position 2: Bush Market in Kabul, named after George W. Bush, sells food and supplies stolen from US military bases.: "http://www.npr.org/2012/08/21/159534013/in-afghan-bazaar-u-s-supplies-at-bargain-prices"
Page 120, Position 3: When the British invaded Afghanistan in 1839, they brought 300 camel-loads of wine.: "http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1305/19/fzgps.01.html"
Page 120, Position 4: Camels have three sets of eyelids and eight sets of eyelashes.: "http://animal.discovery.com/mammals/question104.htm"
Page 121, Position 1: Dinosaurs had no eyelashes.: Long, John A. Feathered Dinosaurs: The Origin of Birds (OUP USA, 8 Jan 2009)
Page 121, Position 2: Crocodiles' faces are ten times more sensitive than human fingertips.: "http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2012/11/08/crocodile-faces-are-more-sensitive-than-human-fingertips/"
Page 121, Position 3: Alligators' penises are permanently erect, but concealed inside their bodies.: "http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/13/the-alligator-has-a-permanently-erect-bungee-penis/"
Page 121, Position 4: Squirrels forget where they've buried three-quarters of their nuts.: "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9344441?dopt=Abstract"
Page 122, Position 1: The most common place to hide household valuables is in the sock drawer; this is also the first place that burglars check.: "http://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/391234/Secret-of-the-sock-drawer"
Page 122, Position 2: Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I, pawned the Crown Jewels to raise money for the English Civil War.: "http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/henrietta-maria.htm"
Page 122, Position 3: Louis XIV had a coat with 123 diamond buttons on it.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/scienceandnaturebookreviews/3571437/They-haunt-our-dreams.html"
Page 122, Position 4: Jacques Chirac, president of France, spent £60,000 a year on spring vegetables.: The Daily Telegraph 29th August 2003
Page 123, Position 1: The world's most expensive car, a 1957 Ferrari Testarossa, was sold in 2011 for £10,750,000.: "http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/21/autos/ferrari_world_record_price/index.htm"
Page 123, Position 2: The world's most expensive sheep was sold in 2009 for £231,000.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8226054.stm"
Page 123, Position 3: A person who illegally exports sheep is called an 'owler'.: "http://www.smuggling.co.uk/gazetteer_se.html"
Page 123, Position 4: Selling illegal cigarettes is known by US police as 'smurfing'.: "http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21567111-when-government-gets-greedy-some-people-turn-crime-urge-smurf"
Page 124, Position 1: The world's largest producer of cigarettes is the Chinese government.: "http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/y4997e/y4997e0g.htm"
Page 124, Position 2: Urea, the main ingredient in urine, is added to cigarettes to enhance their flavour.: "http://www.bag.admin.ch/themen/drogen/00041/00618/13196/13202/index.html?lang=en"
Page 124, Position 3: Tobacco companies use kitty litter to make cigars bigger.: "http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-01/tobacco-firms-save-1-billion-with-kitty-litter-in-cigars.html"
Page 124, Position 4: US patent no. 3,234,948, held by Stuart M. Stebbings, is for cheese-flavoured cigarettes.: "http://www.google.com/patents/US3234948"
Page 125, Position 1: Feta is the oldest-known cheese: it is mentioned in The Odyssey.: "http://greekfood.about.com/od/greekcheeses/p/prof_feta.htm"
Page 125, Position 2: At the age of nine, the Carthaginian leader Hannibal took an oath of perpetual hatred against the Romans.: "http://www.livius.org/ha-hd/hannibal/hannibal.html"
Page 125, Position 3: At the age of ten, Pharaoh Rameses II was a captain in the army and had his own harem.: MacQuitty, William, Ramesses the Great, (Crown, 1 Aug 1978)
Page 125, Position 4: The Roman emperor Caligula took revenge on the sea for sinking his father's fleet by attacking the English Channel.: "http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2102/was-the-roman-emperor-caligula-as-crazy-as-they-say"
Page 126, Position 1: Kayak is an Inuit word meaning 'man's boat'; strictly speaking, the Olympic women's version should be called the umiak competition.: "http://kayak.charkyair.com"
Page 126, Position 2: A bronze in kayaking is Togo's only Olympic medal, won in 2008 by a man who had only been to Togo once.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/sports/olympics/13kayak.html"
Page 126, Position 3: There are only two sets of escalators in Wyoming.: "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/18/wyoming-has-only-2-escalators_n_3616861.html"
Page 126, Position 4: Costa Rica is home to the world's only sloth orphanage.: "http://www.slothsanctuary.com"
Page 127, Position 1: A sloth can take a month to digest a single meal.: "http://www.rainforest-alliance.org.uk/kids/species-profiles/sloth"
Page 127, Position 2: Queen Victoria could eat a seven-course meal in under half an hour.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16659349"
Page 127, Position 3: 'Restaurants' were originally meat soups for 'restoring' strength.: Kelly, Ian, Cooking for Kings (Short Books 2003)
Page 127, Position 4: When Menelik II, emperor of Ethiopia, felt unwell, he would eat a few pages of the Bible.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/books/review/26eskin.html?pagewanted=all"
Page 128, Position 1: The Bible is available in 2,426 languages.: "http://www.churchsociety.org/crossway/documents/Cway_108_Coxbible.pdf"
Page 128, Position 2: More than 40% of the world's Catholics live in South America.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21443313"
Page 128, Position 3: Pope John XII was killed by a jealous husband in the act of committing adultery.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sexually_active_popes"
Page 128, Position 4: Pope John XX never existed.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_(numbering)"
Page 129, Position 1: Five of the last eight popes died in years when Wales won the Six Nations rugby tournament.: "http://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a2768"
Page 129, Position 2: In the Koran, Jesus is mentioned five times more often than Mohammed.: "http://www.islam101.com/history/people/prophets/jesus/christ_in_islam2.htm"
Page 129, Position 3: Earthworms have five hearts.: "http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~rlenet/Earthworms.html"
Page 129, Position 4: Only five in a thousand seahorses survive to adulthood.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2002/06/0614_seahorse_recov_2.html"
Page 130, Position 1: Herbert Spencer, who coined the phrase 'survival of the fittest', was the only one of eight siblings to reach adulthood.: "http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spencer/"
Page 130, Position 2: Only 2% of Kuwaitis are over 65.: "http://www.umsl.edu/services/govdocs/wofact98/139.htm"
Page 130, Position 3: Centenarians are the fastest-growing demographic in the UK.: "http://www.theguardian.com/society/2007/jan/03/longtermcare.guardiansocietysupplement"
Page 130, Position 4: Henry Ford could still do handstands at the age of 75.: "http://www.trinidadexpress.com/commentaries/Taking-an-age-209760331.html?m=y&smobile=y"
Page 131, Position 1: Basketball, racquetball, volleyball and Father's Day all began in a YMCA.: "http://www.ymcanwfl.org/about/our-history"
Page 131, Position 2: More phone calls are made on Mother's Day than on any other day.: "http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/05/07/us-mothers-survey-idUSTRE64611R20100507"
Page 131, Position 3: More reverse-charge calls are made on Father's Day than on any other day.: "http://www.snopes.com/holidays/fathersday/collect.asp"
Page 131, Position 4: Male ants do not have fathers.: "http://news.sciencemag.org/2005/06/fire-ants-start-sexual-revolution"
Page 132, Position 1: A queen ant can fertilise her eggs with sperm she's stored for 30 years.: "http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=1144"
Page 132, Position 2: A velvet ant is a type of wasp.: "https://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/cimg344.html"
Page 132, Position 3: Bees are vegetarian wasps.: "http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/zoo00/zoo00827.htm"
Page 132, Position 4: Bees turn nectar into honey by regurgitating it into the mouths of other bees.: "http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/bee6.htm"
Page 133, Position 1: The extinct gastric brooding frog used her stomach as a womb and gave birth by vomiting.: "http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/15/resurrecting-the-extinct-frog-with-a-stomach-for-a-womb/"
Page 133, Position 2: Woodchucks can't 'chuck-up'.: "http://www.livescience.com/28764-rodents-inability-to-vomit.html"
Page 133, Position 3: A tick is ten times larger after dinner than before.: "http://www.arun.gov.uk/main.cfm?type=TICKSANDLYMEDISEAS"
Page 133, Position 4: Japanese yellow swallowtail butterflies can see with their bottoms.: "http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=seeing-without-eyes"
Page 134, Position 1: The potoo bird can see with its eyes shut.: "http://www.burdr.com/2010/06/common-potoo/"
Page 134, Position 2: Chickens can see daylight 45 minutes before humans can.: Olsen, Diane, A Nature Lover's Almanac: Kinky Bugs, Stealthy Critters, Prosperous Plants & Celestial Wonders (Gibbs Smith, 2012) p.125
Page 134, Position 3: Astronauts at the International Space Station witness 16 sunrises and sunsets every 24 hours.: "http://blogs.esa.int/luca-parmitano/tag/skin-b/"
Page 134, Position 4: The pumping station at Cricklewood was used as the location for the engine room in the movie Titanic.: "http://www.metroclassified.co.uk/media/images/MM5THJULY2013EDITION_5879.pdf"
Page 135, Position 1: The first-ever international cricket tour had to be postponed due to the French Revolution.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_national_cricket_team"
Page 135, Position 2: The first-ever air-conditioning system was installed in the House of Commons.: "http://www.hevac-heritage.org/electronic_books/comfort_AC/2-CAC0.pdf"
Page 135, Position 3: The first-ever actress to appear naked in a film was called Louise Willy.: "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224804/"
Page 135, Position 4: Sigmund Freud's first research project was on the sex life of the eel.: "http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/09/eels/prosek-text/5"
Page 136, Position 1: Eel blood is toxic to humans.: "http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40B16F73E5913738DDDA00894DC405B8985F0D3"
Page 136, Position 2: The cigarette snail is so called because a bite from its venomous tooth leaves you just enough time to smoke a cigarette before you die.: "http://animals.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/invertebrates/geographers-cone-snail/"
Page 136, Position 3: Moths can be trained to detect plastic explosives.: "http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1173177.htm"
Page 136, Position 4: Piranhas enjoy beans and other vegetables.: "http://www.ehow.co.uk/facts_6816690_piranha_s-diet.html"
Page 137, Position 1: One in every 1,000 babies is born with teeth.: "http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-08-24/features/8703040491_1_teeth-born-tooth"
Page 137, Position 2: The average age of a human fat cell is ten years.: "http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7192/full/453169a.html"
Page 137, Position 3: Your eyebrows renew themselves every 64 days.: "http://www.newscientist.com/special/body"
Page 137, Position 4: The human body has the ability to regenerate the tips of lost fingers or toes.: "http://www.nbcnews.com/science/human-tissue-regeneration-its-just-over-horizon-6C10984423"
Page 138, Position 1: On Pluto, a 12-stone person would weigh less than 12 pounds.: "http://www.livescience.com/33356-weight-on-planets-mars-moon.html"
Page 138, Position 2: The atmospheric pressure on Venus is equivalent to being half a mile under the sea on Earth.: "http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/tharriso/ast105/Ast105week08.html"
Page 138, Position 3: The volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io spew fountains of lava 250 miles high.: "http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/io-volcanoes-displaced.html"
Page 138, Position 4: Every winter on Uranus lasts for 42 years.: "http://www.universetoday.com/19305/seasons-on-uranus/"
Page 139, Position 1: For Christmas 1936, Salvador Dalí sent Harpo Marx a harp with barbed-wire strings. Harpo sent back a photograph of himself with bandaged fingers.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3665391/Harpo-and-Dali-a-surreal-double-act.html"
Page 139, Position 2: Drachenfutter is a present from a German to his wife to apologise for being out late. It means 'dragon fodder'.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3639409/Drachenfutter-Saudade-Onsay.html"
Page 139, Position 3: In Canada, Santa has his own postal code: HOH OHO.: "http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/h0h0h0.asp"
Page 139, Position 4: In 2009, a man dressed as Santa Claus robbed a bank in Tennessee: he claimed he needed money to 'pay his elves'.: "http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/bad-santa-robs-us-bank-to-1045800"
Page 140, Position 1: On any given day, half of the world's population are wearing jeans.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17101768"
Page 140, Position 2: The small pocket in the front of a pair of jeans was designed for pocket watches.: "http://www.lbc.co.uk/what-is-the-small-pocket-on-jeans-11109"
Page 140, Position 3: In the 1840s, trousers were known as 'sit-down-upons'.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8135928.stm"
Page 140, Position 4: The largest millipede in Tanzania is known as the wandering leg sausage.: "http://species.asu.edu/2012_species08"
Page 141, Position 1: Insects outnumber humans by 200 million to one.: "http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=877"
Page 141, Position 2: No more than two flies are allowed by law in any public toilet in China.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18170693"
Page 141, Position 3: The horse fly Scaptia beyonceae is named for its 'pretty bootylicious' golden abdomen.: "http://www.livescience.com/17903-gold-butt-beyonce-fly.html"
Page 141, Position 4: A photo of Pamela Anderson was taped to his handlebars by cyclist Mario Cipollini in the 1999 Tour de France to boost his testosterone levels.: "http://www.theguardian.com/sport/shortcuts/2012/jul/15/scandalous-history-tour-de-france"
Page 142, Position 1: Wendy in Peter Pan was based on the daughter of the man who inspired Long John Silver in Treasure Island.: "http://shadesofadamastor.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/long-john-silvers-daughter.html"
Page 142, Position 2: François le Clerc is the only known pirate to have had a peg-leg.: Price, Sean Stewart, Pirates: Truth and Rumors B (Capstone, 1 Jul 2010) p.20
Page 142, Position 3: Sir Arthur Aston, Governor of Oxford in the English Civil War, was murdered in Ireland in 1649 by having his brains bashed out with his own wooden leg.: "http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/aston.htm"
Page 142, Position 4: In 1796, in a cricket match between Greenwich Pensioners with One Arm and Greenwich Pensioners with One Leg, Greenwich Pensioners with One Leg won by 103 runs.: "http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/98/98676.html"
Page 143, Position 1: Mark Twain said he wanted to dig up Jane Austen and beat her over the skull with her own shin bone.: "http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/austen"
Page 143, Position 2: If Jane Austen hadn't broken off her engagement, she would have been known as Mrs Harris Bigg-Wither.: "http://www.jasa.net.au/japeople/biggwither.htm"
Page 143, Position 3: One in ten women cares more for a fictional man than for her partner.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10064508/One-woman-in-ten-cares-more-about-fictional-playboy-than-her-own-partner.html"
Page 143, Position 4: Dame Judi Dench has the James Bond theme as her ringtone.: "http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/news/judi-dench-recalls-ringtone-blushes-28876922.html"
Page 144, Position 1: Almost everyone living in Pompeii escaped when Vesuvius erupted.: "http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/mount-vesuvius1.htm"
Page 144, Position 2: 500 million people are at risk from volcanoes in the world today.: "http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/hazards/primer/"
Page 144, Position 3: 80% of the world's gold was created by earthquakes.: "http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/03/scienceshot-earthquakes-deposit-gold-fault-zones"
Page 144, Position 4: Half the gold ever mined has come from one place: Witwatersrand, South Africa.: "http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/the-origin-of-gold-in-south-africa/1"
Page 145, Position 1: There is enough gold in the Earth's core to coat its entire surface to a depth of 1.5 feet.: "http://discovermagazine.com/2006/sep/innerfortknox"
Page 145, Position 2: The amount of gold in one human body is 0.2 mg; to mint one gold sovereign would need 40,000 people.: "http://chemistry.about.com/od/lecturenoteslab1/a/Elemental-Composition-Of-The-Human-Body-By-Mass.htm"
Page 145, Position 3: In the American Gold Rush, only one in 25 prospectors found any gold.: "http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=799&dat=19980724&id=peVPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ylEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3067
Page 145, Position 4: Using nuclear reactors, it is possible to turn lead into gold; though it is much easier to turn gold into lead.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation"
Page 146, Position 1: If North Dakota were an independent nation, it would be the world's third-largest nuclear power.: "http://www.bismarckstate.edu/news/?NID=49"
Page 146, Position 2: Burning Mountain, Australia, is a natural coal fire that has been alight for 6,000 years.: "http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/NationalParks/parkHome.aspx?id=N0503"
Page 146, Position 3: Crayons, tights and aspirin are all made from oil.: "http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/reduce-dependency-oil.htm"
Page 146, Position 4: Russian bears get high by sniffing discarded aviation fuel.: "http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/junkie-russian-bears-high-sniffing-1771007"
Page 147, Position 1: Paddington Bear was originally 'from darkest Africa' until it was pointed out that there are no bears in Africa.: "http://www.totallylatinamerica.com/peru-travel-news/northern-peru-the-chaparri-nature-reserve-hello-paddington-bear.php"
Page 147, Position 2: 50% of people in India do not have a lavatory.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-17362837"
Page 147, Position 3: 40 million people in China live in caves.: "http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2011-11-01/china-usa-infrastructure-economy/51018908/1"
Page 147, Position 4: Half the world's deaths from air pollution occur in China.: "http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/dpettit/global_toll_of_air_pollution_o.html"
Page 148, Position 1: The Chinese state television company is called CCTV.: "http://english.cntv.cn"
Page 148, Position 2: Fortune cookies originated in America. First imported to China in the 1990s, they were advertised as 'Genuine American Fortune Cookies'.: "http://www.today.com/id/26195698/ns/today-today_in_beijing/t/six-chinese-foods-arent/"
Page 148, Position 3: The e-reader was invented in 1949.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2270525/The-e-reader-Spanish-teacher-precursor-Kindle-1949.html"
Page 148, Position 4: A group of kittens is called a 'kindle'.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 149, Position 1: J. K. Rowling has no middle name.: "http://entertainment.time.com/2013/07/16/the-name-game-j-k-rowling-and-the-power-of-brand/"
Page 149, Position 2: Harry Potter in Calcutta (India), Harry Potter and the Big Funnel (China) and Tanya Grotter and the Magical Double Bass (Russia) are all Harry Potter rip-offs.: "http://mentalfloss.com/article/31430/13-brazen-harry-potter-knock-offs-around-world"
Page 149, Position 3: Working titles for The Great Gatsby included Trimalchio in West Egg and The High-Bouncing Lover.: "http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n13/thomas-powers/the-road-to-west-egg"
Page 149, Position 4: Something That Happened was the original title of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.: "http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~unsworth/courses/entc312/f02/search.cgi?title=Of+Mice+and+Men"
Page 150, Position 1: The first manuscript of Of Mice and Men was chewed up by John Steinbeck's dog, Toby.: "http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/aug/03/johnsteinbeck.classics"
Page 150, Position 2: A quarter of dog owners sign their pet's name on greeting cards.: "http://www.petfinder.com/for-shelters/facts-pet-ownership.html"
Page 150, Position 3: A medium-sized tube of toothpaste contains enough chemicals to kill 13 dogs.: "http://www.merckmanuals.com/vet/toxicology/fluoride_poisoning_fluorosis/overview_of_fluoride_poisoning.html"
Page 150, Position 4: In the UK, you must legally report a road accident involving a dog, but not one involving a cat.: "https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q434.htm"
Page 151, Position 1: Wearing jeans is illegal in North Korea.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2013/04/130406-north-korea-kim-jung-un-counterfeit-gulag-world-facts/"
Page 151, Position 2: Drink-driving is not illegal in Indonesia.: "http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2012/02/drink-driving-indonesia"
Page 151, Position 3: Aborting a child because of its sex is legal in Sweden.: "http://www.thelocal.se/19392/20090512/"
Page 151, Position 4: Saudi Arabian women are only allowed to ride bicycles for 'entertainment purposes'.: "http://world.time.com/2013/04/03/saudi-women-can-now-ride-bicycles-in-public-kind-of/"
Page 152, Position 1: In 1643, the Puritans passed an act forbidding 'the ringing of bells for pleasure'.: "http://allsaintswokinghambells.org.uk/AbHistory/"
Page 152, Position 2: The UK Shadow Business Secretary, Chuka Umunna, was one of the choirboys who sang the Mr Bean theme tune.: "http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b2e9e3a6-ef46-11e2-bb27-00144feabdc0.html"
Page 152, Position 3: Until 1972, the national anthem of the Maldives was sung to the tune of 'Auld Lang Syne'.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Jameel_Didi"
Page 152, Position 4: In America, Tarzan's yell is a registered trademark.: "http://www.erbzine.com/mag19/1929.html"
Page 153, Position 1: Two-thirds of adults who sing their children to sleep prefer pop music to lullabies.: The Week 16 November 2013
Page 153, Position 2: Two-thirds of human communication is by gesture, not speech.: Miller, P.W. Improving communication through what you don't say (VocEd) p.22-23.
Page 153, Position 3: The Queen does the washing-up once a year. There's a special hut at Balmoral for her to do it in.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/7975175/Tony-Blair-A-Journey-the-cast.html?image=3"
Page 153, Position 4: 78% of women say they would love to receive a romantic letter or poem, but only 50% of men have ever written either.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249208/Modern-men-struggling-chivalry.html"
Page 154, Position 1: John Milton sold the rights of Paradise Lost for £10.: "http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/john-milton-sells-the-copyright-to-paradise-lost"
Page 154, Position 2: Arthur Conan Doyle was one of the judges at the world's first-ever bodybuilding contest.: "http://historyofbodybuilding.org"
Page 154, Position 3: Stanley Kubrick financed his early movies by playing illegal chess for money in New York parks.: "http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/apr/05/playing-chess-with-kubrick/"
Page 154, Position 4: The Spice Girls are mentioned five times in the Oxford English Dictionary, under 'girl power', 'big', 'merchandised', 'popularist' and 'tabloid'.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 155, Position 1: In the 19th century, Goldilocks was known as Silver Hair.: "http://www.lancingrep.co.uk/pdf/Goldilocks.PDF"
Page 155, Position 2: In 19th-century versions of Cinderella, her sisters called her 'Cinder-slut'.: "http://www.math.grinnell.edu/~simpsone/Ft/cinderella.html"
Page 155, Position 3: Christian names in the Philippines include Bing, Bong, Bambi, Bogie, Girlie, Peanut and Bumbum.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9435751.stm"
Page 155, Position 4: President Aquino of the Philippines is known as Noynoy and his sisters are called Pinky and Ballsy.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/9435751.stm"
Page 156, Position 1: Wagner only ever wore pink silk underwear.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/germany/9785055/Wagner-bicentenery-on-the-trail-of-Richard-Wagner.html"
Page 156, Position 2: After she died, Queen Victoria's underwear was divided up between her courtiers and sold as souvenirs.: "http://www.victorianamagazine.com"
Page 156, Position 3: Tallulah Bankhead acted in Lifeboat (1944) without any underpants on. When the film crew complained, the director Alfred Hitchcock said, 'I don't know whether that's a concern for wardrobe or hairdressing..: "http://thehollywoodart.blogspot.co.uk/2008/07/american-hitchcock-part-i-1940-1953.html"
Page 156, Position 4: Johnny Depp collects Barbie dolls.: "http://www.examiner.com/article/johnny-depp-s-barbie-collection-depp-says-it-s-one-of-the-things-i-m-good-at"
Page 157, Position 1: When Einstein saw his baby sister for the first time, he thought she was a toy. 'Where are the wheels?' he asked.: "http://www.npl.co.uk/educate-explore/factsheets/einstein/"
Page 157, Position 2: Buzz Lightyear has more space experience than Buzz Aldrin: the toy spent 468 days there in 2008-9, beating the record for the longest human space flight.: "http://www.space.com/7304-buzz-lightyear-ticker-tape-parade-record-spaceflight.html"
Page 157, Position 3: Pixar devised the key characters and plots of A Bug's Life, WALL.E, Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo in a single lunch meeting.: "http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20080626/ARCHIVES/306269897"
Page 157, Position 4: In the average lunch, you eat about 150,000 kilometres of DNA.: "http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@msh_peda/documents/web_document/wtdv033080.pdf"
Page 158, Position 1: Before Norfolk's railway was built, it was quicker to travel to Amsterdam by sea than to London by road.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwich"
Page 158, Position 2: In 2010, a traffic jam near Beijing in China stretched for 100 kilometres and lasted nine days.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-11062708"
Page 158, Position 3: In any one week, London Underground escalators travel the equivalent of twice round the world.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/uk/london/9789966/London-Underground-150-fascinating-Tube-facts.html"
Page 158, Position 4: 'Lunting' is walking at the same time as pipe-smoking.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 159, Position 1: The Scots king who succeeded Macbeth was called Lulach the Idiot.: Pollard, Justin, History: The Interesting Bits (Hachette UK, 20 Aug 2009)
Page 159, Position 2: Denmark pawned the Shetland Islands in 1468. In theory, they could buy them back for 60,000 florins.: "http://www.scotslanguage.com/Insular_uid118"
Page 159, Position 3: In Braveheart, Mel Gibson's modern black jockey shorts can be seen under his kilt.: "http://www.jonhs.com/moviegoofs/braveheart.htm"
Page 159, Position 4: Harris tweed is not made on the Isle of Harris; it's made on the Isle of Lewis.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-22825865"
Page 160, Position 1: Sporrans are traditionally made from otters.: "http://www.westcoastkilts.com/highland-dress/sporrans/"
Page 160, Position 2: Sea otters have as many hairs on each square centimetre of their bodies as human beings have on their entire heads.: "http://www.otternet.com/species/seaotter.htm"
Page 160, Position 3: Fake soy sauce can be made from human hair.: "http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/hair_made_soy_sauce_an_update"
Page 160, Position 4: Queen bumblebees go bald in old age.: "http://www.bumblebee.org/lifeMate.htm"
Page 161, Position 1: Only one woman's age is given in the Bible: Abraham's wife, Sarah (127).: "http://www.oztorah.com/2007/08/asking-a-woman-her-age-chayyei-sarah/"
Page 161, Position 2: Old people who completed secondary education as children are, on average, a centimetre taller than those who don't.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9968478/Education-can-make-you-taller-in-old-age.html"
Page 161, Position 3: Half the brain of an eight-year-old child can be removed with no ill effects.: "http://www.actionablebooks.com/summaries/incognito/"
Page 161, Position 4: Since the first stone tools were made, the human brain has tripled in size.: Gill, P., Cognition, Communication and Interaction (Springer, 26 Oct 2007) p.325
Page 162, Position 1: Your brain makes a million new connections every second.: "http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/stellent/groups/corporatesite/@msh_peda/documents/web_document/wts040949.pdf"
Page 162, Position 2: Your brain uses less power than the light in your fridge.: "http://alphasmagazine.com/your-brain-runs-on-less-power-than-your-refrigerator-light/"
Page 162, Position 3: Eigengrau ('brain grey') is the colour your eyes see in total darkness.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau"
Page 162, Position 4: Elvis wore blue suede shoes to his senior prom.: "http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0
Page 163, Position 1: Charles Manson once wrote songs for The Beach Boys.: "http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/heart-of-darkness-a-charles-manson-timeline-20131121"
Page 163, Position 2: Chopin only performed 30 concerts in his entire life.: "http://www.classicfm.com/composers/chopin/guides/chopin-life/"
Page 163, Position 3: Irving Berlin couldn't read or write music and could only play the piano in F sharp.: "http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2664/if-irving-berlin-could-not-read-or-write-music-how-did-he-compose"
Page 163, Position 4: When Beethoven conducted the premiere of his Ninth Symphony in Vienna, he was completely deaf. After it ended, one of the soloists had to turn him around so he could see the audience applauding.: "http://cso.org/uploadedFiles/1_Tickets_and_Events/Program_Notes/061810_ProgramNotes_Beethoven_Symphony9.pdf"
Page 164, Position 1: Public applause is banned in Belarus.: "http://www.themoscownews.com/international/20110628/188794857.html"
Page 164, Position 2: In the 16th century, French actors hired rieurs (laughers) and chatouilleurs (ticklers) to sit in the audience and cheer everyone up.: "http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/119756/claque"
Page 164, Position 3: The sound of arguments can affect the brains of sleeping babies.: "http://www.livescience.com/28165-sounds-of-arguing-affect-babies-brains.html"
Page 164, Position 4: Gilbert and Sullivan split up after an argument about the cost of a carpet at the Savoy Theatre.: "http://gilbertandsullivansociety.wordpress.com/members/g-s-trivia/"
Page 165, Position 1: There's a carpet shop in Dublin called 'Lino Ritchie'.: "http://www.linoritchie.ie/index.php"
Page 165, Position 2: Cardiff has a tiling-supplies outlet called 'Bonny Tiler'.: "http://bonnytiler.co.uk"
Page 165, Position 3: Bristol has a mobile kebab truck called 'Jason Donervan'.: "http://www.bristol-culture.com/2013/02/18/jason-donovan-set-to-visit-jason-donervan/"
Page 165, Position 4: Portsmouth has a locksmith called 'Surelock Homes'.: "http://www.surelockathome.com"
Page 166, Position 1: In the Sherlock Holmes stories, the first names of Moriarty and his brother are only mentioned once. Both are called James.: "http://sherlock-holm.es"
Page 166, Position 2: James I of Scotland was murdered in a sewer.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8102822.stm"
Page 166, Position 3: James II of Scotland had a huge bright red birthmark, which led to the nickname 'Fiery Face'.: "http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/james-ii-scots-killed-roxburgh"
Page 166, Position 4: James II of England was known in Ireland as 'James the Be-Shitten'.: "http://www.jss.org.uk/cw/Charles_Waterton/demerara-2.htm"
Page 167, Position 1: 'Science' and 'shit' both come from the ancient word skheid, meaning to 'separate' or 'divide'.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=shit"
Page 167, Position 2: Science students who wear white lab coats perform better in tests.: "http://www.psmag.com/science/the-brain-focusing-power-of-the-lab-coat-40108/"
Page 167, Position 3: Ernest Rutherford, who said, 'All science is either physics or stamp collecting,' won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.: "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ernest_Rutherfordu""http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1908/"
Page 167, Position 4: The chemical company Bayer lost the trademark for aspirin as part of Germany's reparations for the First World War.: "http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blaspirin.htm"
Page 168, Position 1: Suicide causes more deaths than murder and war combined.: "http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/05/22/why-suicide-has-become-and-epidemic-and-what-we-can-do-to-help.html"
Page 168, Position 2: Suicide was a criminal offence in the UK until 1961.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14374296"
Page 168, Position 3: Bacteria that catch viruses may commit suicide to protect their neighbours from infection.: "http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34784/title/The-Upside-of-Suicide/"
Page 168, Position 4: The man who wrote 'I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside' killed himself after being booed off stage in Glasgow.: "http://www.marksheridan.org/html/steps_to_suicide.html"
Page 169, Position 1: All the property in Glasgow is worth less than the houses in Elmbridge, Surrey.: "http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/29afc54a-6c80-11e2-b73a-00144feab49a.html"
Page 169, Position 2: There are more people buried in Brookwood cemetery in Surrey than there are living in Southampton, Swindon or Oldham.: "http://www.tbcs.org.uk/about_the_cemetery.htm""http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_districts_by_population"
Page 169, Position 3: Surrey libraries account for one-fifth of all UK borrowing of E. L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9778722/How-Fifty-Shades-of-Grey-set-pulses-racing-in-the-libraries-of-Surrey.html"
Page 169, Position 4: The Kama Sutra provides advice on tongue-twisters and cockfighting.: "http://wealthymatters.com/2012/05/31/the-64-arts-of-the-kama-sutra/"
Page 170, Position 1: In the Middle Ages, erect penises were thought to be full of pressurised air.: "http://www.urologichistory.museum/content/about/resources/rugendorffmedstamps.cfm"
Page 170, Position 2: The pistol shrimp uses jets of water to generate a sonic boom as loud as Concorde's.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1085398/Deadly-pistol-shrimp-stuns-prey-sound-loud-Concorde-UK-waters.html"
Page 170, Position 3: 'Skunk' comes from the Algonquian word seganku, meaning 'he who squirts'.: "http://www.nhptv.org/wild/names.asp"
Page 170, Position 4: A startled hagfish can unleash more than five gallons of defensive slime.: Oâ€™Hanlon, Redmond, Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic (Penguin UK 3 Jun 2004)
Page 171, Position 1: Uliginous means 'having a slimy nature'.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 171, Position 2: Slugs dislike copper; their slime reacts with it and gives them an electric shock.: "http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7427.html"
Page 171, Position 3: A slug's anus is on its head.: "http://www.goscienceseven.com/Slug/sluganatomyresearch.html"
Page 171, Position 4: A shirime is a Japanese monster with an eye in place of an anus.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirime"
Page 172, Position 1: Buddy Holly was so short-sighted he couldn't read the top line of the eye chart.: "http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203833104577072583452885006.html"
Page 172, Position 2: Dante Gabriel Rossetti always wore two pairs of spectacles.: "http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/pr5246.a43.rad.html"
Page 172, Position 3: Schubert slept with his glasses on, in case he got an idea during the night.: Yadgar, Obie, Obie's Opus (AuthorHouse, 1 Mar 2007) p.182
Page 172, Position 4: When he gets writer's block, Dan Brown hangs upside down to get his creative juices flowing.: "http://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2013/may/13/dan-brown-authors-writers-block"
Page 173, Position 1: A pipistrelle bat weighs less than a 2p coin.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/norfolk/kids/halloween/halloween_bats_10_things.shtml"
Page 173, Position 2: The copper in a pre-1992 2p coin is now worth more than 3p.: "http://wordpress.mrreid.org/2012/01/23/the-cost-of-coins/"
Page 173, Position 3: In 2011, a Georgian woman, digging for copper to sell as scrap, sliced through a cable and cut off the whole of Armenia from the Internet.: "http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/06/georgian-woman-cuts-web-access"
Page 173, Position 4: In 1999, the king of Bhutan allowed his country Internet access to celebrate his Silver Jubilee.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/358230.stm"
Page 174, Position 1: Thailand has a special language used exclusively for talking to the king.: "http://thaitranslation.wordpress.com/tag/rachasap/"
Page 174, Position 2: Carl XVI of Sweden is only the tenth Swedish king named Carl; Carls I to VI were mythical.: "http://www.sandersofoxford.com/describe?id=27706"
Page 174, Position 3: Princess Lilian of Sweden was born in Swansea, the daughter of a market trader.: "http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Swansea-family-tells-link-Sweden-s-Princess/story-18490885-detail/story.html"
Page 174, Position 4: Prince Philip is 483rd in line to the British throne.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1032652/The-West-Country-travel-agents-wife-612th-line-throne-unlikely-Britons-list-royal-succession.html"
Page 175, Position 1: Queen Elizabeth II is descended from the Prophet Mohammed.: "http://www.thelocal.fr/20130706/uk-royal-baby-related-to-muhammad-french-expert"
Page 175, Position 2: The Queen is a Knight of the Elephant (Denmark), a Knight of the Golden Fleece (Spain) and a Knight of the White Eagle (Poland).: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_titles_and_honours_of_Queen_Elizabeth_II"
Page 175, Position 3: According to the 2011 census, one in three Londoners was born abroad.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20677515"
Page 175, Position 4: Only 20% of the Royal Mint's coins are made for the UK.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8622336.stm"
Page 176, Position 1: The first image on American television was the dollar sign.: "http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/Television.htm"
Page 176, Position 2: China has a greater reserve of US dollars than the USA itself.: "http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34314.pdf"
Page 176, Position 3: The ancient Chinese believed that the thicker your earlobe, the wealthier you would be.: "http://www.buzzle.com/articles/chinese-art-of-face-reading.html"
Page 176, Position 4: The most expensive coffee in the world is made from the dung of Thai elephants.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkpicturegalleries/9737226/Elephant-dung-coffee-Black-Ivory-beans-passed-through-the-animals-guts.html"
Page 177, Position 1: The Anglo-Saxons called the little finger the 'ear finger' because it's the one you use to pick wax out of your ears.: "http://www.bartleby.com/81/6453.html"
Page 177, Position 2: The Romans called the middle finger digitus impudicus, the 'obscene' or 'offensive' finger.: "http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2010/03/middlefinger.pdf"
Page 177, Position 3: Galileo's middle finger is on display at a museum in Florence.: "http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/jun/08/galileo-fingers-museum-florence"
Page 177, Position 4: Russian, Spanish and Persian use the same words for 'fingers' as for 'toes'.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digit_(anatomy)"
Page 178, Position 1: The fleshy bulb at the base of your thumb is called the thenar.: "http://depts.washington.edu/msatlas/122.html"
Page 178, Position 2: Elephants suck their trunks as children suck their thumbs.: "http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/sites/kids/NGS/wpf/printcreature/african-elephant.html"
Page 178, Position 3: Rubik's cubers can suffer from cubist's thumb and Rubik's wrist.: "http://www.rubiks.com/world/cube_facts.php"
Page 178, Position 4: The 'tiny arms' of Tyrannosaurus rex could each lift the equivalent of two adult humans.: "http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/dinosaurcontroversies/a/Why-Did-T-Rex-Have-Such-Tiny-Arms.htm"
Page 179, Position 1: After losing his right arm in battle, Horatio Nelson developed a phantom limb in its place. He considered it 'direct proof for the existence of the soul'.: "http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/8778061/agonies-and-ecstasies/"
Page 179, Position 2: When three people were rushed to hospital in the 1990s with twisted intestines, the Chinese state media issued warnings about hula-hooping.: "http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1992-03-31/news/1992091033_1_hula-hooping-china-beijing"
Page 179, Position 3: In the Dutch version of Cluedo, Professor Plum is called Professor Pimpel.: "http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/dec/20/cluedo-new-rebrand-family"
Page 179, Position 4: In the Polish version of Scrabble, the letter Z is only worth one point.: "http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Scrabble-letter-distributions"
Page 180, Position 1: Znuz is an old word for 'frost'.: "http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~rgavin/mg2/cuts/scratch/indico/exclude/src/libxslt-1.1.18/tests/multiple/out/letterz.orig"
Page 180, Position 2: Snowbroth is snow which has been trodden down into a mush.: "http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snow-broth"
Page 180, Position 3: New York gets 15 times as much snow as the South Pole.: "http://www.livescience.com/21677-antarctica-facts.html""http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weatherall.php3?s=330527&refer=&units=us"
Page 180, Position 4: The snow on Venus is made from heavy metals.: "http://news.discovery.com/space/the-metallic-snows-of-venus-130610.htm"
Page 181, Position 1: Until 323 bc, Venus's appearances in the morning and evening were thought to be different planets.: "http://www.buzzle.com/articles/who-discovered-venus.html"
Page 181, Position 2: Venus is the most common natural object to be mistaken for a UFO.: "http://www.livescience.com/32849-7-ways-to-generate-a-great-space-hoax.html"
Page 181, Position 3: The most popular item in the FBI's online reading room is an unconfirmed report of a UFO over New Mexico.: "http://boingboing.net/2013/03/30/ufo-memo-the-fbis-most-viewe.html"
Page 181, Position 4: Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service on the day he was shot.: "http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/kids/inside/html/spring98-2.html"
Page 182, Position 1: Richard Nixon applied unsuccessfully to join the FBI.: "http://vault.fbi.gov/Pres.%20Richard%20Nixons%20FBI%20Application/Pres.%20Richard%20Nixons%20FBI%20Application%20Part%201%20of%201"
Page 182, Position 2: The US Republican Party hasn't won a presidential election without a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket since 1928.: "http://spectator.org/archives/2011/07/13/republicans-on-uneasy-street"
Page 182, Position 3: The Democrats and Republicans ran over a million TV ads in 2012: it would take more than a year to watch them all.: "http://www.npr.org/2012/11/05/164362224/the-good-bad-and-ugly-of-this-years-campaign-ads"
Page 182, Position 4: When George Washington campaigned for election in Virginia in 1758, he bought every eligible voter three pints of alcohol.: "http://mentalfloss.com/article/12384/swilling-planters-bumbo-how-george-washington-won-votes-campaign-ads"
Page 183, Position 1: Ebriety is the opposite of sobriety.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 183, Position 2: In the late Middle Ages, you could pay taxes with beer.: Homer, Trevor, The Book of Origins (Plume May 29, 2007) p.131
Page 183, Position 3: In 1695, the American colonies levied a tax on bachelors to encourage men to marry.: "http://www.tax.org.uk/Resources/CIOT/Documents/2012/01/Inaugural_Lecture.pdf"
Page 183, Position 4: In 1831, only 3% of the population of Britain was eligible to vote.: "http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/struggle_democracy/getting_vote.htm"
Page 184, Position 1: Switzerland only gave women the vote in 1971.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/7/newsid_2738000/2738475.stm"
Page 184, Position 2: The man who sent the world's first email in 1971 can't remember what it said.: "http://www.businessinsider.com/every-first-on-the-internet-2013-2?op=1"
Page 184, Position 3: In 1973, British Rail was granted a patent for a spaceship.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4801928.stm"
Page 184, Position 4: The guillotine was last used in France in 1977.: "http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/09/dayintech_0910"
Page 185, Position 1: The hollow bit in the top of a brick is called a frog.: "http://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0
Page 185, Position 2: The wire cage holding the cork in a bottle of champagne is called an agraffe.: "http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/agraffe"
Page 185, Position 3: The metal clip for a light bulb inside a lamp shade is called a harp.: "http://www.lampsusa.com/lampshade-buying-tips.aspx"
Page 185, Position 4: The head of a cauliflower is called a curd.: "http://www.garden.org/plantguide/?q=show&id=3327"
Page 186, Position 1: The fermented-cabbage museum in Seoul has 100,000 visitors a year.: "http://www.kimchimuseum.co.kr/foreigner/english/intro.asp"
Page 186, Position 2: South Korea has a toilet theme park started by a Mr Duck, who was born in an outside lavatory.: "http://www.ripleys.com/weird/daily-dose-of-weird-wtf-blog/strange-places-and-customs/toilet-theme-park/"
Page 186, Position 3: There are 34,000 statues of Kim Il Sung in North Korea.: French, Paul, North Korea: The Paranoid Peninsula: A Modern History (Zed Books, 15 Sep 2007) p.67
Page 186, Position 4: 90% of archaeological artefacts in the UK are found by amateur treasure hunters.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2013/03/130306-finders-keepers-treasure-hunting-law-uk-us/"
Page 187, Position 1: Only one pirate is known to have buried any treasure.: "http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2728/did-pirates-bury-their-treasure"
Page 187, Position 2: There is only one recorded case of 'walking the plank'.: "http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/walk-the-plank.html"
Page 187, Position 3: There is no historical evidence for any pirate having ever owned a pet parrot.: "http://pirates.hegewisch.net/animals.html"
Page 187, Position 4: Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management contains recipes for parrot pie, roast wallaby and curried kangaroo.: "http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/household-management/author/beeton/sortby/1/n/200000013/page-1/"
Page 188, Position 1: Colonel Sanders' secret recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken is written in pencil on a scrap of paper and kept in a high-security vault in Lexington, Kentucky.: "http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/04/05/foods-biggest-secret-recipes-kept-safe/"
Page 188, Position 2: The ingredient that makes Brussels sprouts bitter is cyanide.: "http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-03/fyi-why-does-some-food-taste-bad-some-people-and-good-others"
Page 188, Position 3: 15 apricot kernels contain enough cyanide to kill a child.: "http://uk.askmen.com/sports/foodcourt_100/127_eating_well.html"
Page 188, Position 4: A key ingredient of gunpowder is human urine.: "http://www.wisegeek.org/can-you-really-make-gunpowder-from-urine.htm"
Page 189, Position 1: Lobsters' bladders are in their heads.: "http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/040816/16lobster.htm"
Page 189, Position 2: The Chinese soft-shelled turtle urinates through its mouth.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2012/10/121012-turtles-urine-pee-mouth-science-animals-weird/"
Page 189, Position 3: The Vietnamese fish Phallostethus cuulong has its penis under its chin.: "http://phys.org/news/2012-08-penis-head-fish-vietnam.html"
Page 189, Position 4: In 1994, 'Rasputin's severed penis' was offered to an auction house, but it turned out to be a dried sea cucumber.: "http://www.scribd.com/doc/101553518/The-Penis-Name-Book-A-Guide-to-Naming-Man-s-Best-Friend"
Page 190, Position 1: A sea cucumber eats through its anus.: "http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/14/giant-sea-cucumber-eats-with-its-anus/"
Page 190, Position 2: Slender pearlfish live inside the bottoms of sea cucumbers.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/16251726"
Page 190, Position 3: Cucumbers are 95% water.: "http://www.gardeningchannel.com/the-health-benefits-of-cucumbers/"
Page 190, Position 4: All the instruments of the First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra are made into soup after each performance.: "http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20030307friday.html"
Page 191, Position 1: John Cage's composition 0' 0" (1962) is for chopped vegetables and blender.: "http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19920813&slug=1507219"
Page 191, Position 2: In 1941, Henry Ford made a car out of soy beans.: "http://www.thehenryford.org/research/soybeancar.aspx"
Page 191, Position 3: The man who built the town stocks in Boston charged so much he became the first man to be punished in them.: "http://mentalfloss.com/article/49779/first-man-boston-stocks-was-man-who-built-them"
Page 191, Position 4: Special Brew was created by Carlsberg in honour of Winston Churchill.: "http://www.carlsberggroup.com/brands/Pages/Carlsbergspecialbrew.aspx#.UjGfoqUTM0o"
Page 192, Position 1: There is a brewer in Oregon who makes beer from yeast collected from his own beard.: "http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/brewmaster-makes-beer-from-his-beard-yeast/"
Page 192, Position 2: According to Guinness, 162,719 pints of 'black gold' are absorbed by beards and moustaches each year.: "http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/25/jamiewilson"
Page 192, Position 3: Frank Beard is the only member of ZZ Top who doesn't have a beard.: "http://classicrock.about.com/od/artistprofilesrz/p/zz_top.htm"
Page 192, Position 4: During the Napoleonic wars, British troops referred to French soldiers' moustaches as 'appurtenances of terror'.: "http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/25/alexis-petridis-fashion-moustache"
Page 193, Position 1: Grenade is French for 'pomegranate'.: "http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-french/pomegranate"
Page 193, Position 2: Serviette is French for 'briefcase'.: "http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/serviette"
Page 193, Position 3: Motdiése (or 'sharp-sign word') was coined by the French in 2013 to avoid using the English word 'hashtag'.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/world/europe/france-striking-a-blow-for-the-mother-tongue.html?_r=0"
Page 193, Position 4: Until 2013, French had no word for French kissing. Galocher ('to kiss with tongues') is now an official entry in the 2014 Petit Robert French dictionary.: "http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/30/french-kiss-enters-dictionary-galocher"
Page 194, Position 1: King John I of France was proclaimed king five months before he was born. He only lived for five days.: "http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/304656/John-I"
Page 194, Position 2: Marie Térése, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, was queen of France for 20 minutes.: "http://www.examiner.com/article/historical-profile-marie-therese-of-france"
Page 194, Position 3: A 'moment' is officially defined as 90 seconds.: "http://www.unc.edu/%7Erowlett/units/dictM.html"
Page 194, Position 4: The average US shareholding lasts 22 seconds.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/9021946/How-long-does-the-average-share-holding-last-Just-22-seconds.html"
Page 195, Position 1: The Mayan calendar had five days a year that were known as 'days with no name'.: "http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-mayan.html"
Page 195, Position 2: The Saxon word for January was Wulfmonath: the month when starving wolves were bold enough to enter villages.: "http://www.sacred-texts.com/time/smd/smd03.htm"
Page 195, Position 3: In 15th-century France, one in every four days was an official holiday.: Ehrenreich, Barbera, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy
Page 195, Position 4: The Russian Olympic team arrived 12 days late for the 1908 London Olympics because they were still using the Julian Calendar.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/2490555/Beijing-Olympics-Shooting-guide-Britains-Richard-Faulds-back-on-winning-form-olympics.html"
Page 196, Position 1: The Royal Train is never more than 15 seconds late and must stop within six inches of its mark or it will miss the red carpet.: Daily Mail [London (UK)] 04 May 2002
Page 196, Position 2: All the departure boards at Grand Central Station are exactly one minute wrong.: "http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/02/the-clocks-at-grand-central-station-are-permanently-wrong/272768/"
Page 196, Position 3: All telephone services in the USA were suspended for one minute during the funeral of Alexander Graham Bell.: "http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2010/08/0804alexander-graham-bell-funeral-silence/"
Page 196, Position 4: The first mobile-phone call took place on 3rd April 1973. Motorola's general manager called their rivals AT&T to let them know they'd got there first.: "http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0403"
Page 197, Position 1: Lord Byron was the first man to swim from Europe to Asia.: "http://www.swimhellespont.com/the-hellespont/"
Page 197, Position 2: John Maynard Keynes's mother, Florence, was the first female mayor of Cambridge.: "http://www.nndb.com/people/248/000024176/"
Page 197, Position 3: The first-ever football chant was written by Edward Elgar.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11411360"
Page 197, Position 4: Enid Blyton liked to play tennis in the nude.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/ripping-yarns-enid-blytons-secret-life-1644921.html"
Page 198, Position 1: The Famous Five never had 'lashings of ginger beer', but they did have 'lashings of hard-boiled eggs' and 'lashings of poisonous snakes'.: "http://www.enidblytonsociety.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4824"
Page 198, Position 2: In Ian Fleming's original books, James Bond drinks 101 whiskies but only 19 vodka Martinis.: "http://cocktails.about.com/od/history/tp/jamesbond_cocktails.htm"
Page 198, Position 3: Roget's Thesaurus has an index which is longer than the book itself.: "http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/2001/05/winchester-p3.htm"
Page 198, Position 4: The most common book people lie about having read is George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10286930/More-than-half-of-us-lie-about-reading-classic-novels.html"
Page 199, Position 1: George Orwell's French teacher was Aldous Huxley.: "http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/aldous-huxley-is-hired-at-eton"
Page 199, Position 2: Handel and Jimi Hendrix lived at the same house in London 250 years apart.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/hendrix-in-britain-emandem-handels-house-2055752.html"
Page 199, Position 3: Mozart once proposed to Marie Antoinette.: "http://www.minerva.mic.ul.ie//vol2/shaw.html"
Page 199, Position 4: Newborn babies like Mozart and Vivaldi, but are indifferent to Beethoven.: "http://birthpsychology.com/free-article/importance-prenatal-sound-and-music"
Page 200, Position 1: Beethoven had particularly hairy hands.: Comini, Alessandra, The Changing Image of Beethoven: A Study in Mythmaking (Sunstone Press, 2008) p.68
Page 200, Position 2: Hairy-legged tights are sold in China to protect girls from unwanted male attention.: "http://metro.co.uk/2013/06/18/hairy-stockings-aimed-at-deflecting-unwanted-male-attention-3845865/"
Page 200, Position 3: In ancient China, panda fur was used for sanitary towels.: "http://www.mum.org/"
Page 200, Position 4: All the pandas in the world belong to China.: "http://www.livescience.com/39559-panda-research-plan.html"
Page 201, Position 1: 30,000 dogs a day are slaughtered in China for meat and fur.: "http://news.sky.com/story/1075143/china-dogs-clubbed-to-death-at-abattoirs"
Page 201, Position 2: The Swiss are the only Europeans who eat dog meat.: "http://www.thelocal.ch/20121227/dogs-still-eaten-in-switzerland"
Page 201, Position 3: There are enough nuclear shelters in Switzerland to house the entire population.: "http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss_news/Bunkers_for_all.html?cid=995134"
Page 201, Position 4: 66% of Mumbai's inhabitants live in just 8% of the city's area.: "http://www.pkdas.com/pdfs/Asian-Social-Forum-Hyderabad.pdf"
Page 202, Position 1: 36,000 people in Bangladesh talk Koch.: "http://www.ethnologue.com/language/KDQ/"
Page 202, Position 2: The British surname 'Cock' is four times less common today than it was in 1881.: "http://www.theguardian.com/uk/blog/2009/mar/25/surnames-being-changed"
Page 202, Position 3: The most popular name in China is Wang: there are 93 million Wangs in China.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1554330/Too-many-Wangs-as-China-runs-out-of-names.html"
Page 202, Position 4: Welshite is a mineral named after its discoverer, Wilfred R. Welsh.: "http://www.mindat.org/min-4267.html"
Page 203, Position 1: In Indonesian, a jayus is a joke so terrible and badly told that it becomes funny.: "http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/2008/10/12/ten-most-difficult-words-to-translate/"
Page 203, Position 2: Until the mid-19th century, Indonesia's Banda Islands were the world's only source of nutmeg and mace.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18551857"
Page 203, Position 3: Chemical Mace, the protective spray, is named after the medieval weapon not the spice.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=mace"
Page 203, Position 4: Salt and pepper are provided by NASA for astronauts in liquid form.: "http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/teachingfromspace/dayinthelife/eating-adil-index.html"
Page 204, Position 1: Silly Putty was taken on Apollo 8 to secure tools in weightless conditions.: "http://history1900s.about.com/od/1950s/a/sillyputty.htm"
Page 204, Position 2: It is impossible to whistle in a spacesuit.: "http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast04oct_1/"
Page 204, Position 3: Dolphins use their unique whistles to call each other by 'name'.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23410137"
Page 204, Position 4: Ne Win, former prime minister of Burma, bathed in dolphin's blood, believing it kept him youthful.: "http://www.economist.com/node/1491554"
Page 205, Position 1: Dolphins can stay awake for 15 days at a time.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/9616671/Dolphins-stay-awake-for-15-days-by-sleeping-with-one-half-of-brain.html"
Page 205, Position 2: Sloths sleep for ten hours in the wild, but 16 hours in zoos.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7396356.stm"
Page 205, Position 3: People who suffer from dysania find it difficult to get out of bed in the morning.: "http://www.naturdoctor.com/Chapters/Research/CFS.html"
Page 205, Position 4: Tragomaschalia is having smelly armpits.: "http://www.dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/tragomaschalia"
Page 206, Position 1: Human body odour is irresistible to female goats on heat.: "http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/08/12/1172989.htm"
Page 206, Position 2: The South American hoatzin or 'stink bird' has the slowest digestion of any bird and smells strongly of rotting manure.: "http://earthsky.org/earth/lifeform-of-the-week-hoatzins-are-odd-birds"
Page 206, Position 3: The best way to repel a shark is to wave rotting flesh from one of its dead relatives at it.: "http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/shark-week/about-this-show/worst-shark-attack.htm"
Page 206, Position 4: A single rotten log in a forest contains between 300 and 400 species of fungi.: "http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/08/10/what-lurks-in-logs/"
Page 207, Position 1: Kiwis smell like field mushrooms.: "http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-02-09/researchers-say-kiwis-smell-like-mushrooms-or/2273458"
Page 207, Position 2: Franz Schubert was short and fat. His friends called him 'the mushroom'.: "http://www.classicfm.com/composers/schubert/guides/schubert-20-facts-about-great-composer/schubert-portrait-8/"
Page 207, Position 3: Schubert was a pall-bearer at Beethoven's funeral.: "http://www.bhso.org.uk/repert-137-Schubert-Symphony-no-9-in-C-major-The-Great.htm"
Page 207, Position 4: William Walton became a composer 'to get away from Oldham'.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/arts/music-walton-at-100-is-winning-the-race.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm"
Page 208, Position 1: The explorer Thor Heyerdahl once spent hours waiting for a taxi at the BBC only to find that the driver had been there all along, waiting for 'four Airedales'.: "http://www.rane.com/par-h.html"
Page 208, Position 2: The first woman to run the 400-metre hurdles in under 53 seconds was called Marina Stepanova.: "http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443792604577573390080549680.html"
Page 208, Position 3: In 2012, the Olympic hurdler Vania Stombolova failed to reach the semi-finals after she fell at the first hurdle.: "http://www.smh.com.au/olympics/athletics-london-2012/stambolovas-games-campaign-stumbles-over-at-first-hurdle--literally-20120807-23r16.html"
Page 208, Position 4: In February 2013, Hartlepool United beat Notts County 2-1. Hartlepool's scorers were Hartley and Poole.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21209277"
Page 209, Position 1: In a 90-minute football match, the average player is in possession of the ball for 53.4 seconds.: "http://www.thesecretfootballer.com/articles/12790/journos-friday-thoughts-32/"
Page 209, Position 2: The only football team with a 100% win rate against Barcelona is Dundee United.: "http://www.thecourier.co.uk/sport/blogs/ian-roache/barcelona-s-downfall-is-a-big-deal-and-not-just-for-dundee-united-fans-1.89994"
Page 209, Position 3: Manchester United FC started out as Newton Heath LYR (Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway) FC.: "http://www.manutd.com/en/Club/History-By-Decade/1878-to-1909.aspx"
Page 209, Position 4: The first professional baseball team was the Cincinnati Red Stockings.: "http://www.1869reds.com"
Page 210, Position 1: Before forming The Beatles, Lennon and McCartney billed themselves as The Nerk Twins.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1078752/Meet-The-Nerk-Twins--John-Paul-called-gig-double-act--8211-drinkers-sleepy-Berkshire-pub.html"
Page 210, Position 2: Simon and Garfunkel were originally called Tom and Jerry.: "http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Simon-and-Garfunkel-Biography/06ED600CAA2727E848256896000D574C"
Page 210, Position 3: Tom and Jerry were originally called Jasper and Jinx.: "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032953/trivia"
Page 210, Position 4: New Jersey was originally called Lorraine.: "http://www.nj.gov/state/archives/eventnjdaypressphoto.html"
Page 211, Position 1: Oxford Circus and Piccadilly Circus were both once called Regent Circus. The present names were invented by bus drivers to avoid confusion.: "http://www.metadyne.co.uk/Oxo.pdf"
Page 211, Position 2: Bus Company Island is a nature reserve in Kent.: "https://www.canterbury.gov.uk/media/230181/riversidespg.pdf"
Page 211, Position 3: Nottingham was first named Snottingham, after a Viking called Snot.: "http://www.localhistories.org/nottingham.html"
Page 211, Position 4: Names of British castles include Almond, Cadbury, Cooling, Eye, Fail, Fast and Stalker.: "http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/linlithgow/almondcastle/index.html""http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadbury_Castle
Page 212, Position 1: There are towns in Kentucky called Twenty-six, Seventy-six and Eighty-eight.: "http://theweek.com/article/index/241136/8-towns-whose-names-are-numbers"
Page 212, Position 2: The four highest mountains on Earth, Everest, K2, Kanchenjunga and Lhotse, were first scaled in 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956 respectively.: "http://www.abovethehimalaya.com/blog/top-10-highest-mountains-in-the-world/"
Page 212, Position 3: As well as K2, there are four other mountains too remote to have local names: K7, K9, K12 and K25.: "http://www.unlockingthearchives.rgs.org/highlightsandevents/?pageversion=1717&pageid=176"
Page 212, Position 4: The world's highest unclimbed peak is Gangkhar Puensu in Bhutan. The mountain is considered sacred and climbing above 6,000 metres is banned by the government.: "http://climbing.about.com/od/mountainclimbing/a/GangkharPuensu.htm"
Page 213, Position 1: According to Mormonism, the Garden of Eden was in Missouri.: "http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/gardenofeden.htm"
Page 213, Position 2: A gobemouche is someone who believes anything they're told.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 213, Position 3: 'DOH' is the abbreviation for Doha International Airport in Qatar.: "http://www.flightstats.com/go/Airport/airportDetails.do;jsessionid=53A16C8B54F55D1A01039C863F94D00E.web4:8009?airportCode=DOH"
Page 213, Position 4: Saudi Arabia imports sand.: "http://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/saudi-arabia-running-out-of-sand.html"
Page 214, Position 1: In the ancient Kush Empire of North Africa, a double chin was considered the height of beauty.: "http://antiquitynow.org/2013/01/10/recent-archaeological-discovery-reveals-that-in-antiquity-thin-was-out-and-stylishly-plump-was-in/"
Page 214, Position 2: The point of the chin is called the pogonion.: "http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/pogonion"
Page 214, Position 3: Bed makers Silent Night employ a professional bed tester whose bottom is insured for £1 million.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/7519564.stm"
Page 214, Position 4: William Pitt the Younger was so thin he was nicknamed 'The Bottomless Pitt'.: "http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/pharos/collection_pages/18th_pages/P344_1948/TXT_SE-P344_1948.html"
Page 215, Position 1: After pregnancy, women have permanently larger feet.: "http://www.livescience.com/27583-foot-size-pregnancy.html"
Page 215, Position 2: The lower the ratio between a man's index and ring fingers, the longer his penis will be.: "http://healthland.time.com/2011/07/06/penis-size-it-may-be-written-in-the-length-of-his-fingers/"
Page 215, Position 3: Some sea slugs use a new penis every time they have sex.: "http://www.examiner.com/article/thumb-sized-sea-slug-boasts-detachable-penis"
Page 215, Position 4: A 'School of Undressing' was founded for women in Manhattan in 1937, in the belief that 'poor disrobing techniques' were driving up divorce rates.: "http://life.time.com/curiosities/how-a-wife-should-undress-dubious-advice-from-burlesque-stars-of-the-1930s/"
Page 216, Position 1: The Yagan of Australia use mamihlapinatapei to mean 'the wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but who are both reluctant to start'.: "http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?id=7192"
Page 216, Position 2: The Amondawa people of the Amazon have no word for 'time'.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711"
Page 216, Position 3: Latin and Gaelic have no words for 'yes' or 'no'.: "http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=961"
Page 216, Position 4: Sgiomlaireachd (pron. scum-leerie) is a Scots Gaelic word meaning 'the kind of friend who only drops in at mealtimes'.: "http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/03/travel/the-language-of-eden.html?pagewanted=2"
Page 217, Position 1: To groak is to silently watch people while they're eating, hoping they'll ask you to join them.: "http://www.thefreedictionary.com/groak"
Page 217, Position 2: Twice as many forks as knives are sold in the UK: Britons increasingly eat with just a fork.: "http://www.allvoices.com/news/3720338/s/35833749-knives-are-out-as-diners-elect-to-eat-with-one-hand"
Page 217, Position 3: To pingle is a Norfolk word meaning to play with your food.: "http://www.norfolkdialect.com/glossary04.htm"
Page 217, Position 4: The makers of Pringles won a court case in 2008 arguing that Pringles aren't crisps. The verdict was overturned the following year.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7490346.stm"
Page 218, Position 1: People are 50% heavier and four inches taller than they were in 1900; the biggest changes to the human body for 50 centuries.: "http://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/oct/28/big-history-bill-gates-david-christian"
Page 218, Position 2: Brazils, cashews, coconuts, peanuts and walnuts are not nuts.: "http://www.life.illinois.edu/help/digitalflowers/Fruits/26.htm"
Page 218, Position 3: Juglandaceous means 'walnutty'.: "http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/juglandaceous"
Page 218, Position 4: One jar of Nutella is sold somewhere in the world every 2.5 seconds.: "http://www.nutella.co.uk/en/about_nutella"
Page 219, Position 1: In 2011, a lorry crashed on the M1 spilling enough Marmite to cover 24 million slices of toast.: "http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/nov/29/marmite-spill-m1"
Page 219, Position 2: Until rubber's uses were discovered in 1770, pencil marks were erased using lumps of fresh bread.: "http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpen.htm"
Page 219, Position 3: The best thing before sliced bread was wrapped bread. Sliced bread was advertised as 'The Greatest Forward Step Since Bread Was Wrapped'.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/eightyfive-years-of-the-best-thing-since-this-week-marks-the-anniversary-of-sliced-bread-8703970.html"
Page 219, Position 4: Ciabatta bread was invented in 1982.: "http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/apr/30/features11.g24"
Page 220, Position 1: Baker's yeast and humans share 18% of their genes.: "http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/05/1221502/-Our-Relatives-The-Grapes"
Page 220, Position 2: To read someone's entire genome out loud would take nine and a half years.: "http://genetichealth.jax.org/personalized-medicine/our-contributions/genes.html"
Page 220, Position 3: In a single day, a cow produces up to 320 pints of saliva.: "http://fyi.uwex.edu/wbic/2012/01/18/back-to-basics-ruminant-digestive-system/"
Page 220, Position 4: To flink is to behave in a cowardly manner.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 221, Position 1: Boanthropy is the delusion that you are an ox or cow.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 221, Position 2: Buffalo Bill killed bison, not buffalo.: "http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/american-buffalo-spirit-of-a-nation/introduction/2183/"
Page 221, Position 3: The word 'snapshot' was first used in 1808. It meant 'to fire at a fast-moving target without aiming properly'.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 221, Position 4: When taking snaps, the French say ouistiti ('marmoset'), the Bulgarians say zele ('cabbage'), the Estonians say hernesupp ('pea soup)' and the Thais say pepsi instead of 'cheese'.: "http://socyberty.com/languages/how-do-you-say-quotsmilequot-or-quotsay-cheesequot-in-other-languages/"
Page 222, Position 1: Over half the cheese eaten in the UK is Cheddar.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17996730"
Page 222, Position 2: The ploughman's lunch was invented in 1956 by the English Country Cheese Council.: "http://zythophile.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/the-ploughmans-lunch-guilty-or-innocent/"
Page 222, Position 3: Until the 15th century, 'cake' meant a flat, round loaf of bread.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cake"
Page 222, Position 4: Before cane sugar was introduced to Europe, food was often sweetened with parsnips.: "http://www.eattheseasons.com/Archive/parsnips.htm"
Page 223, Position 1: As the Earth moves it makes a musical note too low for human hearing: C sharp, 29 octaves below middle C.: "http://www.pianopianoforte.com/piano_music/piano_music_english/the%20sound%20of%20the%20planets.html"
Page 223, Position 2: Nobody has ever lasted more than 45 minutes in the world's quietest room.: "http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/alt-news/the-sound-of-silence-a.html"
Page 223, Position 3: In its entire lifespan, the average home power drill in the UK is only used for 20 minutes.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/9074388/Swap-and-share-the-new-ways-to-make-cash-by-swishing.html"
Page 223, Position 4: Steering wheels weren't introduced to British cars until 1898. The first cars had steering tillers.: "http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Steering_Wheel?rec=2732"
Page 224, Position 1: Killer whales were originally called 'whale killers'.: "http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/info-books/killer-whale/scientific-classification.htm"
Page 224, Position 2: Only one person is known to have been killed by a centipede.: "http://www.myriapoda.org/chilopoda/centipede_general_info.html"
Page 224, Position 3: The black mamba is not black; it gets its name from the colour of the inside of its mouth.: "http://animals.nationalgeographic.co.uk/animals/reptiles/black-mamba/"
Page 224, Position 4: An old name for the kestrel is windfucker.: "http://public.oed.com/aspects-of-english/shapers-of-english/surnames-as-sources-in-the-oed/"
Page 225, Position 1: Fox tossing was a popular 17th-century sport; the fox was fired into the air using a sling.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_tossing"
Page 225, Position 2: Dubai's Burj Khalifa skyscraper is so high, and its lifts are so fast, that you can watch the sun set at ground level, travel to the roof and watch it set again.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2159142/The-Burj-Khalifa-skyscraper-stands-tall-visitors-watch-sun-set-twice-minute.html"
Page 225, Position 3: The first skyscrapers were buildings with ten to 20 floors; today they are defined as those with more than 40.: "http://www.businessinsider.com/europes-10-tallest-skyscrapers-2012-9?op=1"
Page 225, Position 4: Locust swarms move so fast because each locust is trying to eat the one in front and avoid being eaten by the one behind.: "http://m.npr.org/news/Science/191348007"
Page 226, Position 1: Albatrosses can fly around the world in less than two months.: "http://www.backyardchirper.com/blog/wisdom-survives-tsunami-waves-officials-report/"
Page 226, Position 2: A Formula 1 racing car could get round the M25 in 48 minutes.: Newsham, Gavin, Sportonomics (London: Carlton Books, 2013)
Page 226, Position 3: Apollo 11's flag is no longer standing on the Moon. It was planted too close to the lunar module's lift-off site and was blown over by the exhaust.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19050795"
Page 226, Position 4: Exhaust emissions can be reduced by using pig's urine.: "http://www.edie.net/news/1/Pigs-urine-could-purify-pollution/10098/"
Page 227, Position 1: 22 of the first 29 US astronauts were firstborns.: "http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38683279/ns/health-childrens_health/t/sorry-kid-first-borns-really-are-smarter/#.UkGoGhYTNz8"
Page 227, Position 2: More people have been into space than have seen a snow tiger in the wild.: "http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-06-09/more-people-have-flown-into-space-than-seen-a-siberian-tiger-in-the-wild"
Page 227, Position 3: Snow leopards used to be called 'ounces'.: "http://snowleopardconservancy.org/kids/text/uncia.htm"
Page 227, Position 4: Astatine is an element so rare there is only an ounce of it in the whole world.: "http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/07/12/201481293/the-hardest-thing-to-find-in-the-universe"
Page 228, Position 1: More chemical elements have been discovered in Britain than in any other country.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_chemical_element_discoveries"
Page 228, Position 2: Over 98% of the Earth's crust is made of only eight chemical elements.: "http://www.rsc.org/education/teachers/resources/jesei/minerals/students.htm"
Page 228, Position 3: Half the mass of most rock is oxygen.: Bowen, Humphrey John Moule, Environmental Chemistry, Volume 2 (Royal Society of Chemistry, 1 Jan 1982) p.179
Page 228, Position 4: One gram of matter contains as much energy as 10,000 tonnes of TNT.: Gresh, Lois H., The Science of Supervillains ( Robert Weinber) p.139, John Wiley & Sons, 22 Nov 2004
Page 229, Position 1: The mass of a Higgs boson is 0.0000000000000000000003 grams.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22016504"
Page 229, Position 2: CERN is home to the world's largest magnet: it weighs more than the Eiffel Tower.: "http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/01/hadron-collider-201001"
Page 229, Position 3: The paint on the Eiffel Tower weighs as much as ten elephants.: "http://www.tour-eiffel.fr/images/PDF/about_the_Eiffel_Tower.pdf""http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/mammal/mesaxonia/elephantidae.php"
Page 229, Position 4: The water melting from the Greenland ice sheet each year weighs as much as a hundred million bowhead whales or a billion elephants.: "http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/sep/01/sermilik-fjord-greenland-global-warming"
Page 230, Position 1: The polar ice cap is melting so quickly that, by 2050, ships will be able to sail to the North Pole.: "http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/mar/04/ships-sail-north-pole-2050"
Page 230, Position 2: If the temperature in the UK reaches 50°C, the roads will melt.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23315384"
Page 230, Position 3: The Earth's core is about the same temperature as the surface of the sun.: "http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/04/26/Earths-core-hotter-than-thought-hot-as-suns-surface/UPI-23241367007255/"
Page 230, Position 4: In 1673, Dover and Calais were joined by ice.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7865001.stm"
Page 231, Position 1: There are more deer in Britain today than at any time since the last Ice Age.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21688447"
Page 231, Position 2: Fighting male deer can lock antlers and starve to death.: "http://animals.jrank.org/pages/3311/Deer-Cervidae-RED-DEER-Cervus-elaphus-SPECIES-ACCOUNTS.html"
Page 231, Position 3: Moose masturbate by rubbing their antlers on trees.: "http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2009/07/hands_or_paws_or_anything_they_got.html"
Page 231, Position 4: Egyptian pharaohs ritually masturbated into the Nile to ensure an abundance of water.: Richardson, Dan, Egypt (Rough Guides, 2003) p.369
Page 232, Position 1: Rose water was the world's most popular flavour until the discovery of vanilla.: "http://articles.baltimoresun.com/keyword/vanilla/featured/4"
Page 232, Position 2: The technical term for ice-cream brain freeze is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.: "http://wisciblog.com/2012/05/29/why-do-we-get-brain-freeze-sphenopalatine-ganglioneuralgia/"
Page 232, Position 3: Japanese ice-cream flavours include: cactus, raw horseflesh, squid gut, pit viper, goat, charcoal, collagen and Viagra.: "http://www.who-sucks.com/food/...""http://japanese.lingualift.com/blog/.../""http://www.travelandleisure.com/slidesho...""http://www.buzzfeed.com/nikkik5/8-wei..."
Page 232, Position 4: In the 12th century, one in ten Japanese was a Samurai.: "http://www.museum.ie/en/list/..."
Page 233, Position 1: In 1602, the Japanese government ordered all pet cats be released to kill the mice threatening the country's silkworms.: "http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/CCAH/local-assets/pdfs/FelHusCh1.pdf"
Page 233, Position 2: In the Pyrenees in the 18th century, farmers buried live cats to clear their land of weeds.: Darnton, Robert, The Great Cat Massacre (Basic Books, 1984) p.94
Page 233, Position 3: The magic word 'abracadabra' was first used to ward off malaria.: Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, Word Histories and Mysteries: From Abracadabra to Zeus edited by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 13 Oct 2004) p.171
Page 233, Position 4: There is a cult in Malaysia that worships a giant teapot.: "http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2008/03/05/teapot_cult/"
Page 234, Position 1: The philosopher Jeremy Bentham had a special teapot called Dickey.: "http://tera-3.ul.cs.cmu.edu/NASD/4dcb85c3-9fee-4c83-9e6d-fe6ce5522b59/China/disk4/76/76-6/31010989/PDF/00000059.pdf"
Page 234, Position 2: In Tibet, distances were traditionally measured by the number of cups of tea needed for each journey.: Braun, Stephen, Buzz: The Science and Lore of Alcohol and Caffeine (Oxford University Press, 19 Sep 1996) p.143
Page 234, Position 3: Britons drink 60 billion cups of tea every year.: "http://www.tea.co.uk/page.php?id=237"
Page 234, Position 4: In 2011, under pressure from animal-rights activists, PG Tips agreed to stop testing its tea on animals.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/pg-tips-maker-agrees-to-halt-animal-tests-on-its-tea-2202615.html"
Page 235, Position 1: In the UK, octopuses enjoy the same legal status as vertebrates.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2212703/Cheeky-octopus-foils-marine-scientists-efforts-probe-fishes-feeding-habits--stealing-entire-bait-box.html"
Page 235, Position 2: An octopus has horizontal pupils; whatever angle the octopus is at, its pupils always stay aligned with the horizon.: "http://www.orma.com/sea-life/octopus-facts/"
Page 235, Position 3: There is a fish that mimics an octopus mimicking a fish.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2012/01/120105-fish-mimics-octopus-kopp-science/"
Page 235, Position 4: Prozac makes fish angry.: "http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fish-on-prozac-prove-anxious-anti-social-agressive"
Page 236, Position 1: 80% of front-page newspaper articles are written by men.: "http://theopedproject.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/the-byline-survey-2011/"
Page 236, Position 2: More Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded to institutions than to women.: http://www.npr.org/2012/10/12/162813929/is-the-nobel-prize-a-boys-mostly-club
Page 236, Position 3: Only 5% of the art currently on display in American museums is by women.: "http://www.nmwa.org"
Page 236, Position 4: The average woman spends 16 months of her life crying.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1205789/Women-spend-year-months-lives-crying.html"
Page 237, Position 1: Saudi Arabia has the highest motor accident rate in the world and no women drivers.: "http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130312156489"
Page 237, Position 2: Three times as many Japanese people die in bathtubs as in car crashes.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/9235564/Probe-into-Japanese-bathtub-fatalities-after-14000-die-in-one-year.html"
Page 237, Position 3: 88% of adult Italians have had sex in a car.: The Sunday Telegraph [London (UK)] 06 Apr 2003
Page 237, Position 4: Tormentone is the Italian for a summer hit song that is always playing on your car radio.: "http://welshieinitaly.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/the-summer-torments-good-bad-and-ugly.html"
Page 238, Position 1: Fiat is an acronym of the Italian for 'Italian Car Factory of Turin'.: "http://www.autonews.com/article/20130515/OEM/305159946/fiat-mulls-u.s.-headquarters-after-chrysler-merger-report-says"
Page 238, Position 2: BMW stands for the German for 'Bavarian Motor Works'.: "http://www.englishlanguageterminology.org/acronyms-initials-abbreviations/what-does-bmw-stand-for.htm"
Page 238, Position 3: Mazda is the ancient Zoroastrian god of wisdom.: "http://smithspecialty.com/cars-we-service/foreign-import-autos/mazda-service-resource-olathe.html"
Page 238, Position 4: Samsung means 'three stars' in Korean.: "http://global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=24212"
Page 239, Position 1: Mitsubishi means 'three water chestnuts' in Japanese.: "http://www.info2india.com/automobile/mitsubishi/"
Page 239, Position 2: CT body scans expose the patient to the same amount of radiation as that experienced within a mile and a half of the Hiroshima bomb.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/10091543/An-experts-guide-to-risk.html"
Page 239, Position 3: Marie Curie exposed herself to so much radiation that her kitchen cookbooks are still radioactive.: "http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/1107/Marie-Curie-Why-her-papers-are-still-radioactive"
Page 239, Position 4: In 1930, a radium-infused jockstrap called the Scrotal Radiendocrinator went on the market, claiming to boost sexual virility.: "http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/offbeat-news/10-radioactive-products-that-people-actually-used/1388"
Page 240, Position 1: A spermologer is a collector of trivia.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 240, Position 2: Koinophilia is sexual attraction to average people.: "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8176954"
Page 240, Position 3: Economics students have more sexual partners than those of any other subject.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/student-life/9568564/Economics-students-are-most-promiscuous-survey.html"
Page 240, Position 4: Semen and seminar both come from the Latin for 'seed' or 'offspring'.: "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seminar"
Page 241, Position 1: The mean cost of bringing up a British child is estimated to be £218,024.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/household-bills/9823143/Cost-of-raising-a-child-hits-record-222000.html"
Page 241, Position 2: Regular use of sunblock has increased the incidence of rickets among British children.: "http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Lack-of-sun-has-led-to-rickets-in-children.htm"
Page 241, Position 3: American children get 11% of their daily energy intake from sugary drinks.: "http://www.kir.org/family_information/softdrinks.htm"
Page 241, Position 4: By 2050, one in three Americans will be diabetic.: "http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2010/r101022.html"
Page 242, Position 1: During the Seven Years War (1754-63), 1,512 British soldiers were killed in action and 100,000 were killed by scurvy.: "http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/Simon-Singh-Edzard-Ernst-Trick-or-Treatment.pdf"
Page 242, Position 2: In 1915, more men died on the Western Front than the total number of yards gained by either side.: MacDonald, Lyn, 1915: The Death of Innocence (Penguin UK, 17 Mar 1997)
Page 242, Position 3: 80% of men born in the Soviet Union in 1923 were dead by 1945.: "http://books.google.co.uk/books?ei=MznlUfu0C_OX0QWItIGgDQ&id=dGbuAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Soviet+Union%22+%22born+in+1923%22+%2280%25%22&q=+%22born+in+1923%22+%2280%25%22#search_anchor"
Page 242, Position 4: China's Taipang Rebellion (1850-64) killed 20 million people: a tenth of the world's population.: "http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/580815/Taiping-Rebellion"
Page 243, Position 1: The first country to ban foie gras on grounds of animal cruelty was Nazi Germany.: "http://legalfoiegras.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/nazi-germany-and-foie-gras.html"
Page 243, Position 2: Of almost 4,000 mammals in Berlin Zoo in 1939, only 91 survived the bombings of the Second World War.: "http://www.visitberlin.de/en/spot/zoological-garden-zoo-aquarium"
Page 243, Position 3: Half the world's 6,000 languages are not expected to survive into the next century.: "http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/Linguistics/Theses09/HoffmannThesis.pdf"
Page 243, Position 4: An apocaholic is a person obsessed with the possibility of imminent disaster. .: "http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/ff_apocalypsenot/all/"
Page 244, Position 1: Human settlement in the Pacific islands has led to the disappearance of a tenth of the world's bird species.: "http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/1017/20130325/humans-blame-pacific-bird-extinction-representing-10-percent-worlds-species.htm"
Page 244, Position 2: Animals found only in Fiji include the montane emo skink, the bicolored foxface and the twilight fangblenny.: "http://lntreasures.com/fiji.html"
Page 244, Position 3: In Fiji, until 2003, Prince Charles's birthday was a national holiday.: "http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=69974"
Page 244, Position 4: Hawaii is the only US state that still has the Union Jack as part of its flag.: "http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-hi_hi.html"
Page 245, Position 1: The largest ship ever built was too big to sail through the English Channel.: "http://www.interestingengineering.com/2011/01/seawise-giantthe-longest-ship.html"
Page 245, Position 2: Venice's Grand Canal isn't a canal, it's a seawater channel.: "http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/241163/Grand-Canal"
Page 245, Position 3: 'Bach' means brook or stream. Beethoven once remarked that Bach should be known as 'ocean', not 'brook'.: "http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/158025.article"
Page 245, Position 4: At its mouth, the Amazon River is nearly as wide as the Thames is long.: "http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_River"
Page 246, Position 1: A raindrop that falls into the Thames will pass through the bodies of eight people before it reaches the sea.: "http://www.watercoolersdirect.com/resources/10-facts-about-water-in-london.html"
Page 246, Position 2: It is impossible to suck water up through a straw more than 34 feet long.: "http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/180pressurefs.html"
Page 246, Position 3: Fell Beck Falls in Yorkshire is twice the height of Niagara.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1188009/Pictured-The-awe-inspiring-British-cave-swallow-entire-cathedral-whole.html"
Page 246, Position 4: The second-highest waterfall in Canada doesn't have a name.: "http://www.worldwaterfalldatabase.com/country-tallest-waterfalls/Canada/"
Page 247, Position 1: Toronto has a sports accessories store named 'The Merchant of Tennis'.: "http://www.merchantoftennis.com"
Page 247, Position 2: Canada's Olympic lacrosse team of 1904 had players called Rain-in-Face, Snake Eater and Man Afraid Soap.: "http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/feature/?fid=9340"
Page 247, Position 3: Writer Ambrose Bierce's siblings were Abigail, Amelia, Ann, Addison, Aurelius, Augustus, Almeda, Andrew, Albert, Arthur, Adelia and Aurelia.: "http://www.foliosociety.com/author/ambrose-bierce"
Page 247, Position 4: Annabelle, Daisy, Emma, Elizabeth, Gabriel, Joshua, Lulu, Maxine, Nicola, Sebastian, Vanessa, Verity and Winston are all varieties of potato.: "http://varieties.potato.org.uk/varietyindex.php%20?page_no=1"
Page 248, Position 1: Dutch poets you may not know include Jacob Cats, Hans Plomp, Hubert Poot, Wieny Curvers and Antony Staring.: "http://www.poeziecentrum.be/knipselmaplijsten-nederlandstalige-auteurs"
Page 248, Position 2: Cristiano Ronaldo's full name is Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro. He was named after Ronald Reagan.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/3144881.stm"
Page 248, Position 3: Ronald Reagan's chief of staff was called Donald Regan.: "http://www.economist.com/node/1858725"
Page 248, Position 4: The General Secretary of the Sri Lanka Teachers' Union is called Joseph Stalin.: "http://www.sundaytimes.lk/130728/education/"
Page 249, Position 1: There is a peer in the House of Lords called Lady Garden.: "http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmallparty/register/consumer-affairs-and-trading-standards.htm"
Page 249, Position 2: Between 2002 and 2010, 335 people visited A&E in America with pubic-hair-grooming injuries.: "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23040729"
Page 249, Position 3: New Yorkers bite 25 times more Americans than sharks do.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01531mw"
Page 249, Position 4: A 1998 health-and-safety report in Queensland, Australia, advised against placing 'any part of one's body in the mouth of a crocodile'.: "http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19960724&id=8lQlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=56UFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3652
Page 250, Position 1: In Queensland, pet rabbits are illegal.: "http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/57780/IPA-Keeping-Rabbits-As-Pets-PA15.pdf"
Page 250, Position 2: In Melbourne, singing an obscene ballad is punishable by six months in prison.: "http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/consol_act/soa1966189/s17.html"
Page 250, Position 3: The name Canberra resulted from a competition; losing entries included Democratia, Kangaremu and Australamooloo.: "http://www.icsm.gov.au/cgna/lesson/story01.html"
Page 250, Position 4: When people first came to Australia 40,000 years ago, the land was covered with tropical forests, brimming lakes and snow-capped mountains.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Indigenous_Australians"
Page 251, Position 1: A 2013 survey found that 10% of Britons think that Australia is further away than the Moon.: "http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/12/home-and-away-britons-believe-australia-is-farther-away-than-the-moon-3879872/?ITO=news-sitemap"
Page 251, Position 2: The inflexible gloves that astronauts wear cause their fingernails to fall off.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2010/09/100913-science-space-astronauts-gloves-fingernails-injury/"
Page 251, Position 3: The only mountain in Flanders is 156 metres high.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemmelberg"
Page 251, Position 4: First prize at the 2010 Karaoke World Championships in Moscow was one million dumplings.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11413500"
Page 252, Position 1: The doomed Hindenburg airship was equipped with a cigarette lighter; it was chained to a table in the smoking room.: "http://www.airships.net/hindenburg-smoking-room"
Page 252, Position 2: 'Flak' is an abbreviation of the German word Fliegerabwehrkanone 'pilot warding-off cannon'.: "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fliegerabwehrkanone"
Page 252, Position 3: A temherte slaq is an Ethiopian punctuation mark used to denote sarcasm.: "http://trueslant.com/erikkain/2010/05/28/temherte-slaq-the-long-lost-sarcasm-mark/"
Page 252, Position 4: In Finnish an exclamation mark is a 'shout mark'; in Spanish it's a 'wonder symbol'.: "http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/spanish-english/signo-de-admiraciÃ³n"
Page 253, Position 1: Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, is the only place in Britain whose name contains Roman numerals.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/englandcms/shropshire/ruyton/ruyton.swf"
Page 253, Position 2: In Roman law, balnearii were criminals who stole clothes from public baths.: "http://thelawdictionary.org/balnearii/"
Page 253, Position 3: The Roman army used cobwebs to dress wounds.: McCallum, Jack Edward, Military Medicine: From Ancient Times to the 21st Century (ABC-CLIO, 2008) p.272
Page 253, Position 4: Spiders recycle their webs by eating them.: "http://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/spiders-recycling/"
Page 254, Position 1: Black-lace weaver spiders increase their chances of survival by eating their mother before leaving the nest.: "http://blog.nus.edu.sg/lsm1303student2013/2013/04/11/yummy-mummy/"
Page 254, Position 2: The average Briton thinks there are 25 times as many teenage mothers as there actually are.: "http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/alex-massie/2013/07/abandon-all-hope-the-average-voter-thinks-one-in-four-britons-is-a-muslim"
Page 254, Position 3: Osburgh, first wife of Ethelwulf, was the mother of four English kings: Ethelbald, Ethelbert, Ethelred I and Alfred the Great.: "http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dearbornboutwell/fam2160.html"
Page 254, Position 4: Karl Marx's mother once said to him: 'I wish you would make some capital instead of just writing about it..: "http://www.harpercollins.com.au/books/Karl-Marx-Francis-Wheen/"
Page 255, Position 1: A new law in China in 2013 means citizens could face jail if they don't visit their parents.: "http://theweek.com/article/index/246361/in-china-adults-must-visit-their-aging-parentshellip-or-else"
Page 255, Position 2: The average British woman owns 22 items of clothing that she never wears.: "http://www.ecouterre.com/average-woman-owns-22-garments-she-never-wears-but-refuses-to-junk/"
Page 255, Position 3: For 214 years until 2012, it was illegal in Paris for women to wear trousers.: "http://www.france24.com/en/20130204-paris-women-trousers-law-revolution-equality-france"
Page 255, Position 4: Women's size 14 trousers are four inches bigger at the waist today than they were in the 1970s.: "http://www.economist.com/node/21552262"
Page 256, Position 1: Robert Wadlow, the tallest man in history, went to school at the age of five in a suit made for a 17-year-old.: "http://www.gbcnv.edu/hickson/wadlow.html"
Page 256, Position 2: Straitjackets used to be known as 'strait-waistcoats'.: "http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Strait-waistcoat"
Page 256, Position 3: The first piece of high-visibility clothing was a wedding dress.: "http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/jan/15/photography"
Page 256, Position 4: The first heart pacemaker had a battery that was wheeled around in a cart.: "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232561/"
Page 257, Position 1: In 1961, a Soviet surgeon in Antarctica became the first person to successfully remove his own appendix.: "http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/antarctica-1961-a-soviet-surgeon-has-to-remove-his-own-appendix/72445/"
Page 257, Position 2: In 1974, the Soviet Union drew up detailed plans to invade Manchester.: "http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/aug/25/ussr-planned-invasion-manchester-exhibition"
Page 257, Position 3: Russia's legal minimum monthly wage is £93. The minimum monthly cost of living there is £125.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/rbth/society/9775359/russia-rich-poor-divide.html"
Page 257, Position 4: Knowing that Angela Merkel is afraid of dogs, Vladimir Putin arrived to meet her in 2007 with his black Labrador.: "http://www.theguardian.com/world/german-elections-blog-2013/2013/sep/10/angela-merkel-origins-germany-election"
Page 258, Position 1: The word 'bully' once meant 'sweetheart'.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bully"
Page 258, Position 2: The man who voiced Mickey Mouse for 32 years married the woman who voiced Minnie Mouse for 27 years.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1185328/Man-voice-Mickey-Mouse-dies--wife-voice-Minnie-Mouse-side.html"
Page 258, Position 3: The actors who play Homer and Marge in the French version of The Simpsons are married in real life.: "http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/marge-and-homers-french-love-affair/story-e6frfmq9-1111114028534"
Page 258, Position 4: The married actors who voiced Popeye and Olive Oyl ate spinach at their wedding.: "http://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/popeye-and-olive-get-married-1939-27860.html"
Page 259, Position 1: Paul Winchell, the man who voiced Wacky Races villain Dick Dastardly, built and patented the first artificial heart in 1956.: "http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/winchell.html"
Page 259, Position 2: Mel Blanc, the voice of Bugs Bunny, has 'That's All Folks!' inscribed on his tombstone.: "http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Mel_Blanc_4-15-05.JPG"
Page 259, Position 3: A whole series of The Flintstones was recorded in Mel Blanc's bedroom when he was in a full-body cast after a car accident.: "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000305/bio"
Page 259, Position 4: Walt Disney was so poor in his twenties, he had to eat dog food.: "http://www.dailycal.org/2013/06/25/the-inglorious-twenties/"
Page 260, Position 1: Frederick the Great of Prussia drank coffee mixed with champagne and mustard.: "http://www.champaigncountyhistoricalmuseum.org/cchs2.html"
Page 260, Position 2: Charles II massaged his body with dust from mummified pharaohs in the hope that their 'greatness' would rub off on him.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1569618/Ancient-Egypts-fantastic-and-weird-history.html"
Page 260, Position 3: John Major failed the selection process to become a bus conductor.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/348932.stm"
Page 260, Position 4: The first woman to run a post office in Germany was later burned as a witch.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9079499/400-year-old-witchcraft-trial-resumes-in-Germany.html"
Page 261, Position 1: The average keyboard contains 3,295 germs per square inch.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3505414.stm"
Page 261, Position 2: The first computer mouse was called an x-y position indicator.: "http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa081898.htm"
Page 261, Position 3: At any given second, 6 million space bars are being hit around the world.: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPXxhgdtcXs&feature=youtu.be"
Page 261, Position 4: When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in 1911, people flocked to look at the space where it had been.: "http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/069d8662-be37-11e0-bee9-00144feabdc0.html"
Page 262, Position 1: 'Extramundane' describes the empty space in which the universe sits.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 262, Position 2: The silent letters in words like 'knife' are called aphthongs.: "http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Aphthong"
Page 262, Position 3: Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, spent nine years sitting facing a wall.: "http://oaks.nvg.org/bodhidharma.html"
Page 262, Position 4: From 1814 to 1830, the French flag was plain white.: "http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/fr_rest.html"
Page 263, Position 1: Brown dwarf stars are red or blue, but never brown.: "http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/81685/brown-dwarf"
Page 263, Position 2: Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way.: "http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/24/dung-beetles-navigate-via-the-milky-way-an-animal-kingdom-first/"
Page 263, Position 3: The largest known black holes are 20 billion times more massive than the Sun.: "http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/universe20110722.html"
Page 263, Position 4: 39 digits of pi are enough to measure the circumference of the universe to the accuracy of the width of a hydrogen atom.: "http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-craziest-thing-youll-ever-learn-about-pi"
Page 264, Position 1: The atom-bomb explosion at Hiroshima was generated by matter weighing no more than a paper clip.: "http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/tiny-answers.html"
Page 264, Position 2: The weight of the cows in any field will always be less than the weight of the worms beneath it.: "http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/graph/15504/above-and-below-ground-biomass"
Page 264, Position 3: When he died, Dr Atkins (of the best-selling Atkins diet) weighed over 18 stones.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/1453997/Atkins-diet-guru-weighed-18-stone.html"
Page 264, Position 4: Ben & Jerry became friends at gym class after the coach shouted at them for being 'the two slowest, fattest kids'.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/how-we-met-ben-cohen-and-jerry-greenfield-1621559.html"
Page 265, Position 1: Obesity kills three times as many people as malnutrition.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9742960/Obesity-killing-three-times-as-many-as-malnutrition.html"
Page 265, Position 2: One-third of Americans have eaten cold pizza for breakfast.: "http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/981a1Breakfast.pdf"
Page 265, Position 3: Cornflakes have more salt per ounce than salted peanuts.: "http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19850802&id=xBIQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=So0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=3656
Page 265, Position 4: There's only a one-calorie difference between a bowl of Frosties and a bowl of Special K. (The extra calorie is in Special K).: "http://www.kelloggs.co.uk/en_GB/special-k.html""http://www.kelloggs.co.uk/en_GB/frosties.html"
Page 266, Position 1: Following Hurricane Katrina, the use of names beginning with K increased by 9%.: "http://www.nancy.cc/2013/02/04/baby-names-influenced-by-hurricane-names/"
Page 266, Position 2: There are only four people called Kevin in the Dictionary of National Biography, and one of them is a woman.: "http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/index.html"
Page 266, Position 3: In 1880, 46 baby girls born in the USA were given the name John, 14 were named Cecil and 13 were called Frank.: "http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html"
Page 266, Position 4: St Kevin is the patron saint of blackbirds.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_of_Glendalough"
Page 267, Position 1: In the first quarter of 2012, Apple sold more iPhones than there were babies born in the world.: "http://www.news.com.au/technology/smartphones/more-iphones-are-sold-a-day-than-babies-born/story-fn6vihic-1226624327053"
Page 267, Position 2: Londoners check their phones 150 times a day, or once every six minutes.: "http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/health/are-you-a-slave-to-your-mobile-phone-8502598.html"
Page 267, Position 3: The average UK office worker gets 40 emails a day and almost half never post a letter.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2305712/British-workers-receive-10-000-emails-year--NEVER-pen-paper.html"
Page 267, Position 4: One in four British relationships begin online.: "http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/06/is-online-dating-destroying-love"
Page 268, Position 1: One in every seven minutes spent online is spent on Facebook.: "http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-accounts-for-1-in-every-7-online-minutes/6639"
Page 268, Position 2: Six new articles are published on Wikipedia every second.: "http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57575344-1/intel-reveals-what-happens-in-a-single-internet-minute/"
Page 268, Position 3: The word 'twitter' was first used by Geoffrey Chaucer in 1374.: "http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2012/10/chaucer-coined-twitter/58374/"
Page 268, Position 4: The average Briton will text the equivalent of two copies of the Complete Works of Shakespeare in a lifetime.: "http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/06/typical-mobile-phone-user-will-send-2million-words-of-text-messages-in-their-lifetime-3912739/"
Page 269, Position 1: William Shakespeare is an anagram of 'I am a weakish speller'.: "http://www.anagramgenius.com/archive/willia3.html"
Page 269, Position 2: The scientific name for kookaburras, Dacelo, is an anagram of Alcedo, the scientific name for kingfishers.: "http://library.sandiegozoo.org/factsheets/kookaburra/kookaburra.html"
Page 269, Position 3: Monday is the only day of the week with a single-word anagram ('dynamo').: "http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/wordtriv.htm"
Page 269, Position 4: Cornish Yarg cheese was invented by the Gray family; Yarg is 'Gray' spelt backwards.: "http://www.pongcheese.co.uk/shop/yarg-cornish-cheese-nettle-wrapped.html"
Page 270, Position 1: The fax machine was invented 30 years before the telephone.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/27/business/yourmoney/27fax.html"
Page 270, Position 2: The remote control was developed during the First World War by the German army.: "http://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/09/10/war-by-remote-control-2500-years-of-unmanned-vehicles/"
Page 270, Position 3: In the First World War, it was patriotic in the UK to kick dachshunds.: "http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/20/ivins.hillary/"
Page 270, Position 4: In the Second World War, the Americans renamed German measles 'liberty measles'.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2784577.stm"
Page 271, Position 1: The cougar, or mountain lion, holds the Guinness World Record for the animal with the most names: it has more than 40 in English alone.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Cougar"
Page 271, Position 2: The South American bullfrog is eaten as a delicacy in Dominica, where it is known as 'mountain chicken'.: "http://www.arkive.org/mountain-chicken/leptodactylus-fallax/"
Page 271, Position 3: The mountain goat is not a goat, the mountain ash is not an ash and mountain spinach is not spinach.: "http://home.howstuffworks.com/mountain-ash-tree.htm""http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/26/dining/spinach-of-a-different-color.html""http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20101003/NEWS/101009963"
Page 271, Position 4: The 'naked mole rat' is neither naked, a mole nor a rat.: "http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/animal-guides/animal-guide-queen-naked-mole-rat/473/"
Page 272, Position 1: The circus performer Pasqual Pinon was known as the 'Two-headed Mexican'. He only had one head and came from Texas.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasqual_Pinon"
Page 272, Position 2: Seven Mile Beach on Grand Cayman is five and a half miles long.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/2007647/The-worlds-best-beaches.html?image=6"
Page 272, Position 3: The town of Sevenoaks is home to eight oaks.: "https://www.kentadulteducation.co.uk/about-us/where-to-find-us/sevenoaks.aspx"
Page 272, Position 4: Tuvalu means 'cluster of eight' in Tuvaluan. There are nine islands in Tuvalu.: "http://tuvalu.southpacific.org"
Page 273, Position 1: The Royal Train is nine carriages long.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1393125/The-coal-was-painted-white-so-as-not-to-offend-Victoria.html"
Page 273, Position 2: The Andorran army is made up of ten soldiers.: "http://suite101.com/a/modern-military-history-of-andorra-a26925"
Page 273, Position 3: You can fold a piece of paper in half 13 times.: "http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/01/paper-folding-limits-pushed.html"
Page 273, Position 4: Bolivia has 37 official languages.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Bolivia"
Page 274, Position 1: Laotian rock rats were thought to be extinct for 11 million years until one was found for sale in a market in Laos in 2006, about to be turned into a kebab.: "http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_19-5-2005_pg9_6"
Page 274, Position 2: One in five doner kebabs in the UK poses a 'significant' threat to public health.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4355722/Two-kebabs-could-contain-a-weeks-worth-of-saturated-fat.html"
Page 274, Position 3: The average British kebab contains 98% of a person's daily salt requirement.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/4355722/Two-kebabs-could-contain-a-weeks-worth-of-saturated-fat.html"
Page 274, Position 4: Penguins can drink salt water.: "http://www.penguin.net.nz/faq/faq4.html"
Page 275, Position 1: Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole ate stewed penguin for Christmas dinner.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17371543"
Page 275, Position 2: Charles Darwin once ate roast armadillo and said he preferred it to duck.: "http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2009/02/darwin/quammen-text"
Page 275, Position 3: Darwin's tortoise Harriet died in 2006 at the age of 176.: "http://www.livescience.com/849-darwin-reputed-tortoise-dies-176.html"
Page 275, Position 4: The dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park were made using recordings of tortoises having sex.: "http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/fun/news/a472789/jurassic-park-dinosaur-noises-made-from-tortoises-having-sex.html"
Page 276, Position 1: Moths can confuse bats' ultrasound by wiggling their genitals.: "http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/07/scienceshot-vibrating-genitals-m.html?ref=hp"
Page 276, Position 2: Whales navigate hundreds of miles using a mental map created by bouncing sound off the sea floor.: "http://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/podcasts/2013/09/blinded_noise_transcript.html"
Page 276, Position 3: There are more than 3 million shipwrecks under the world's oceans.: "http://www.unesco.org/new/en/culture/themes/underwater-cultural-heritage/the-underwater-heritage/wrecks/"
Page 276, Position 4: Even when adjusted for inflation, the movie Titanic cost 50% more to make than the ship of the same name.: "http://www.infoplease.com/spot/titanic.html"
Page 277, Position 1: 94% of the world's information is stored digitally.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12419672"
Page 277, Position 2: 90% of all the data ever produced by humans was created in the last two years.: "http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130522085217.htm"
Page 277, Position 3: Every two days, Facebook records more 'likes' than there are people in the world.: "http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/news/a499364/facebook-reveals-most-checked-in-beaches.html"
Page 277, Position 4: The Internet domain name Googlesucks.com is owned by Google.: "http://digitaljournal.com/article/253693"
Page 278, Position 1: IBM was originally called the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.: "http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/logo/logo_4.html"
Page 278, Position 2: The first computer mouse was made of wood.: "http://coe.berkeley.edu/about/history-and-traditions/1963-douglas-engelbart.html"
Page 278, Position 3: The first golf balls were made of wood.: "http://library.thinkquest.org/10556/english/high/history/hist05.htm"
Page 278, Position 4: The first golf tees were little piles of sand.: "http://www.scottishgolfhistory.net/tee_term.htm"
Page 279, Position 1: Every grain of sand on the planet is unique.: Welland, Michael, Sand (Oxford University Press, 2009) p.22
Page 279, Position 2: Deserts make up 33% of the Earth's surface, but only 20% of them are sandy.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert"
Page 279, Position 3: The world's sandiest desert is the Great Sandy in Australia, but even that is only 50% sand.: Welland, Michael, Sand (Oxford University Press, 2009) p.143
Page 279, Position 4: Foster's, the Australian beer company, is the world's second-biggest producer of wine.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8483448/Fosters-votes-to-split-beer-and-wine-businesses.html"
Page 280, Position 1: Americans were so certain crime was caused by alcohol that, on the eve of Prohibition, some towns in Iowa sold their jails.: "http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/FunFacts/Prohibition.html"
Page 280, Position 2: A bank robbery that takes place out of office hours is classed as a mere burglary.: "http://www.translegal.com/legal-english-lessons/theft-larceny-burglary-and-robbery"
Page 280, Position 3: In 2013, a Milan court sentenced a homeless man to house arrest. Each night, police went round to his bit of pavement to make sure he was in his sleeping bag.: "http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/homeless-man-sentenced-to-house-arrest-in-milan-8703913.html"
Page 280, Position 4: Sir Thomas Malory, author of Le Morte d'Arthur, was the only person in England who wasn't pardoned after the Wars of the Roses.: "http://www.umsl.edu/~gradyf/medieval/Malorybio.pptâ€Ž"
Page 281, Position 1: Abraham Lincoln was inducted into the Wrestling Hall of Fame.: "http://article.wn.com/view/2013/06/25/Abraham_Lincoln_is_the_wrestling_hall_of_fame/#/video"
Page 281, Position 2: Before he became a writer, Franz Kafka was an accident insurance lawyer.: "http://www.egs.edu/library/franz-kafka/biography/"
Page 281, Position 3: Oliver Cromwell was a farmer until he was 40.: "http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Oliver_Cromwell.html"
Page 281, Position 4: Al Capone's business card described him as a used-furniture dealer.: "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0135330/bio"
Page 282, Position 1: In 1980, Saddam Hussein was awarded the key to the city of Detroit.: "http://www.foxnews.com/story/2003/03/27/saddam-hussein-helped-detroit-church-got-key-to-city/"
Page 282, Position 2: Mussolini's son was a top jazz musician.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4676934.stm"
Page 282, Position 3: Fidel Castro's son is a champion golfer.: "http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=92655"
Page 282, Position 4: General Franco kept the mummified hand of St Teresa of Avila on his bedside table until his death.: "http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/12/26/reviews/991226.26schillt.html"
Page 283, Position 1: American novelist Sherwood Anderson died from swallowing the toothpick in the olive in his Martini.: "http://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/sherwood-anderson"
Page 283, Position 2: Dostoevsky's father was drowned in vodka by his own serfs.: "http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/sites/core/files/text/Dostoevsky%20%26%20Context%20by%20Marijeta%20Bozovic.pdf"
Page 283, Position 3: Rodin died of pneumonia brought on by cold after being refused a room in the centrally heated museum where his sculptures were kept.: "http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0
Page 283, Position 4: Eugene Aserinsky, one of the founders of sleep research, died in a car crash after falling asleep at the wheel.: "http://www.sleepandhealth.com/files/journal/2004/2004_01.pdf"
Page 284, Position 1: Everyone sleeps in one of six different positions: 'foetus', 'log', 'yearner', 'soldier', 'freefaller' or 'starfish'.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3112170.stm"
Page 284, Position 2: The technical term for sleep-talking is somniloquy.: "http://wordsmith.org/words/somniloquy.html"
Page 284, Position 3: Most people dream five times a night.: "http://www2.ucsc.edu/dreams/FAQ/"
Page 284, Position 4: The 'mare' in 'nightmare' was a female demon who suffocated people in their sleep by sitting on their chests.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=nightmare"
Page 285, Position 1: Cocaine, LSD, speed and crystal meth are not narcotics.: "http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/179974-drug-vs-narcotics.html"
Page 285, Position 2: Ernest Shackleton took cocaine with him to the Antarctic to combat snow blindness.: "http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/27/161881513/cocaine-for-snowblindness-what-polar-explorers-packed-for-first-aid"
Page 285, Position 3: Pope Leo XIII carried a hip flask full of wine infused with cocaine.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/weekinreview/23cave.html?_r=0"
Page 285, Position 4: Coca-Cola started out as the non-alcoholic version of cocaine-based claret.: "http://bordeaux-undiscovered.co.uk/blog/2013/06/bordeaux-wine-merchant-launches-worlds-first-coca-cola-flavoured-wine/"
Page 286, Position 1: 'Alcohol' is from the Arabic al-kuhl, meaning 'the essence of things'.: "http://www.monashscientific.com.au/AlcoholWhatIs.htm"
Page 286, Position 2: There is a cloud in the constellation Aquila that has enough alcohol in it to make 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.: "http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/beercld.htm"
Page 286, Position 3: The world's oldest legal system, in ancient Mesopotamia, established beer as a unit of currency.: "http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/assyria/hammurabi.html"
Page 286, Position 4: The punishment for serving bad beer in ancient Babylon was drowning.: "http://www.assyriatimes.com/assyrian/knowledge/beer-ancient-and-noble-beverage/"
Page 287, Position 1: Robert Oppenheimer, 'the father of the atomic bomb', tried to kill his university tutor with a poisoned apple.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/books/review/robert-oppenheimer-a-biography-by-ray-monk.html?pagewanted=all"
Page 287, Position 2: In the Second World War, the USA and New Zealand secretly tested 3,700 'tsunami bombs' designed to destroy coastal cities.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/9774217/Tsunami-bomb-tested-off-New-Zealand-coast.html"
Page 287, Position 3: In 1958, the US Air Force lost a hydrogen bomb somewhere in Georgia.: "http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18587608"
Page 287, Position 4: In 2012, a Mr Kaboom of Akron, Ohio, caused panic after leaving an aluminium walking stick engraved with his surname outside City Hall.: "http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2012/10/05/city-hall-scare-is-traced-to-mr--kaboom.html"
Page 288, Position 1: In 1916, Samuel Born was given the key to the city of San Francisco for inventing the machine that inserts sticks into lollipops.: "http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/lollipops.htm"
Page 288, Position 2: The ancient Greek for 'little sticks' is 'bacteria'.: Weeks, Benjamin S. Microbes and Society (Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2008) p.111
Page 288, Position 3: The word 'mistletoe' comes from the Anglo-Saxon for 'dung on a stick'.: "http://www.aces.edu/counties/StClair/files/NRMistletoeGlover07.pdf"
Page 288, Position 4: When greeting one another, white-faced capuchin monkeys stick their fingers up each other's noses.: "http://www.phschool.com/science/science_news/articles/monkey_business.html"
Page 289, Position 1: King Alexander I of Greece died after being bitten by a pet monkey.: "http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=22&dat=19201026&id=IBI7AAAAIBAJ&sjid=jCoMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3793
Page 289, Position 2: George IV had a pet giraffe.: "http://australianmuseum.net.au/John-Gould-The-early-years/"
Page 289, Position 3: Henrik Ibsen kept a pet scorpion in an empty beer glass on his desk.: "http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0
Page 289, Position 4: Lord Kitchener had four spaniels called Shot, Bang, Miss and Damn.: Hastings, Max, Country Fair: Tales of the Countryside, Shooting and Fishing (HarperCollins UK, 8 Jun 2010)
Page 290, Position 1: You only need to be three feet underwater to be protected from bullets.: "http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2005/07/mythbusters_bulletproof_water.html"
Page 290, Position 2: The world record for holding one's breath underwater is 22 minutes.: "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/breath-world-record-stig-severinsen_n_2144734.html"
Page 290, Position 3: Newborn rats can survive underwater for 40 minutes.: Barrow, D., The Nerds Survival Guide (Aria Software Ireland Ltd, 1 Jan 2006) p.145
Page 290, Position 4: In the first century ad, polar bears fought seals in Roman amphitheatres flooded with water.: "http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/mammals/polar-bear.htm"
Page 291, Position 1: Every year, hundreds of elephant seal pups are crushed to death under mating adults.: "http://travelwild.com/antarctica-wildlife/southern-elephant-seal/"
Page 291, Position 2: Elephant seal milk is twice as thick as whipping cream.: "http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/wildlife/weddell_seals.htm""http://candy.about.com/od/candybasics/a/creamguide.htm"
Page 291, Position 3: Baikal seals live in Lake Baikal, 2,500 miles from the sea. Nobody knows how they got there.: "http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/06/15/most-inconvenient-seal/"
Page 291, Position 4: Nobody knows who invented the fire hydrant: the patent records were destroyed in a fire.: "http://www.firehydrant.org/pictures/hydrant_history.html"
Page 292, Position 1: Ignivomousness is the ability to vomit fire.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 292, Position 2: In the 19th century, angry cats were known as 'spitfires'.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 292, Position 3: The first Xerox photocopier was so prone to bursting into flames that it was fitted with its own fire extinguisher.: "http://boingboing.net/2011/04/21/xeroxs-first-success.html"
Page 292, Position 4: The first cloned cat was called 'CC', short for 'Carbon Copy'.: "http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2011/12/carbon-copy-cat-rise-fall-pet-cloning/"
Page 293, Position 1: Great white sharks are 200 times heavier than domestic cats, but their brains weigh almost the same.: "http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/facts.html"
Page 293, Position 2: A domestic cat has a stronger bite than a Komodo dragon.: "http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2008/04/080418-komodo-dragons.html"
Page 293, Position 3: Komodo dragons eat up to 80% of their body weight in a single meal.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Komodo_dragon"
Page 293, Position 4: Fleas can live for a year without eating.: "http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/insects-arachnids/flea.htm"
Page 294, Position 1: The UK's largest flea lives on the pygmy shrew, the UK's smallest mammal.: "http://www.fleafree.co.uk/flea_facts/en/bites.shtml"
Page 294, Position 2: A colony of the world's smallest ants could live comfortably inside the skull of the world's largest ant.: Wilson, Edward O., In Search of Nature (Island Press, 1 Jul 1996) p.47
Page 294, Position 3: The ad/bc dating system was devised by a monk called Dennis the Small.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/9693576/Jesus-was-born-years-earlier-than-thought-claims-Pope.html"
Page 294, Position 4: Dennis, Kevin, Justin and Marvin are the least likely names to be clicked on by women on dating websites.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2081166/Potential-partners-likely-click-unattractive-names-dating-websites.html"
Page 295, Position 1: The words 'whore' and 'charity' both come from a Germanic word meaning 'one who desires'.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=charity"
Page 295, Position 2: George IV only had sex with his wife, Caroline of Brunswick, three times, all in the first two days of their marriage.: Farquhar, Michael, Behind the Palace Doors: Five Centuries of Sex, Adventure, Vice, Treachery (Random House LLC, 1 Mar 2011) p.232
Page 295, Position 3: According to English folklore, if a woman feeds her husband roast owl, he will become completely subservient to her every wish.: Folklore Society, Publications, Volume 36
Page 295, Position 4: A male hippo attracts a female by spraying her with excrement.: "http://goafrica.about.com/b/2012/03/19/dung-showering-and-other-poopy-facts.htm"
Page 296, Position 1: A Mills and Boon-style romance in France is called a 'rose-water novel'.: "http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/high-brow-literati-turn-to-fifty-shades-at-paris-book-fair/story-fnb64oi6-1226606682066"
Page 296, Position 2: In China, the Korean War is called 'The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea'.: "http://www.china.org.cn/e-America/event/d.htm"
Page 296, Position 3: The Japanese word inemuri means 'sleeping on the job'; the practice is supposed to show how committed an employee is.: "http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-inemuri.htm"
Page 296, Position 4: A hikikimori is a Japanese teenager who spends most of their time in their bedroom.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23182523"
Page 297, Position 1: An umbratile is someone who stays in the dark.: "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/umbratile"
Page 297, Position 2: US President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast in bed while having his head rubbed with Vaseline.: "http://specials.msn.com/news/odd-presidential-facts-ss?imageindex=14&cp-searchtext=President%20who%20liked%20Vaseline%20rubs"
Page 297, Position 3: Vaselina is the Mexican title for the movie Grease.: "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077631/releaseinfo"
Page 297, Position 4: Mexicans drink more Coca-Cola per head than anyone else.: "http://www.dietdoctor.com/coca-cola-drinking-mexico-now-most-obese-nation"
Page 298, Position 1: Pope Benedict XVI drank more than five times his own body weight in Fanta every year.: "http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/pope-is-secret-fanta-fan-967929"
Page 298, Position 2: The total amount of water ever drunk by humans would cover the Earth's oceans to a depth of less than three millimetres.: Isaacs, John D. and Behrman, Daniel, John Isaacs and His Oceans (American Geophysical Union, 8 Apr 1992) p.54
Page 298, Position 3: Almost two-thirds of all the water used in the UK comes from other countries.: "http://www.edie.net/news/4/ICE-fears-global-water-crisis-will-hit-UK/17965/"
Page 298, Position 4: Only 22 of the world's 193 countries have never been invaded by the British.: "http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/04/britain-invaded-countries-france-united-states_n_2072727.html"
Page 299, Position 1: Americans have invaded Canada twice, in 1775 and 1812. They lost both times.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Canada"
Page 299, Position 2: 2009 was the first year in recorded history that there were no executions in Europe.: "https://www.amnesty.org/en/death-penalty/death-sentences-and-executions-in-2009/europe-central-asia"
Page 299, Position 3: 2013 was the first year since 1987 composed of four different digits.: "http://www.thejournal.ie/2013-four-different-digits-736843-Jan2013/"
Page 299, Position 4: 1457 was the first year the word 'golf ' appeared in print, in an Act of Parliament making it illegal.: "http://www.scottishgolfhistory.net/history_of_golf__books_review.htm"
Page 300, Position 1: The invention of the bicycle increased the average distance between the birthplaces of spouses in England from one mile to 30 miles.: "http://forums.roadbikereview.com/lounge/human-evolution-bicycle-290991.html"
Page 300, Position 2: A human sperm can swim 25 times its body length every second.: "http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-09/sperm-cant-turn-left-or-dont-want"
Page 300, Position 3: If you laid all the viruses in Earth's oceans end to end, they would make a line 100 million light years long, passing 50,000 galaxies.: "http://www.virology.ws/2009/03/20/the-abundant-and-diverse-viruses-of-the-seas/"
Page 300, Position 4: Just looking at a sick person is enough to get your immune system working.: "http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-murder-and-the-meaning-life/201004/the-psychological-immune-system"
Page 301, Position 1: Abraham Lincoln was suffering from smallpox when he gave the Gettysburg Address.: "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17551612"
Page 301, Position 2: Alfred Russel Wallace was delirious with a malarial fever when he came up with the Theory of Natural Selection.: "http://www.theguardian.com/science/2008/jun/22/darwinbicentenary.evolution"
Page 301, Position 3: The human influenza virus was first isolated in 1933 from a sick ferret.: "http://eanimal.snu.ac.kr/Aboutus/seminar/ferret.pdf"
Page 301, Position 4: A flu virus can only survive on most surfaces for 48 hours, but can live on a banknote for 17 days.: "http://aem.asm.org/content/74/10/3002.full"
Page 302, Position 1: The Bank of England used to heat its buildings by incinerating old banknotes.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/legacies/myths_legends/england/essex/user_3_article_1.shtml"
Page 302, Position 2: La Paz, Bolivia, was the first South American city to get an electricity supply. It was powered by llama dung.: "http://palinstravels.co.uk/book-952"
Page 302, Position 3: Until 2010, the solar-panel industry used more electricity than it produced.: "http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-04/solar-panels-now-make-more-electricity-they-use"
Page 302, Position 4: You would need to cover an area the size of Wales with wind turbines to meet one-sixth of the UK's daily energy needs.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/3500971/Wind-turbines-would-need-to-cover-Wales-to-supply-a-sixth-of-countrys-energy-needs.html"
Page 303, Position 1: One-third of batteries are thrown away with 70% of their power left.: "http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/inspect-a-gadget/2012/10/duracells-battery-bunny-sculpture-demonstrates-one-third-of-discarded-batteries-still-have-67-power.html"
Page 303, Position 2: Sugar is an ingredient in 70% of manufactured food.: "http://www.economist.com/node/15955155"
Page 303, Position 3: 70% of Americans believe in angels.: "http://www.gallup.com/poll/27877/americans-more-likely-believe-god-than-devil-heaven-more-than-hell.aspx"
Page 303, Position 4: In a 2004 experiment, 70% of Britons handed over their computer passwords in exchange for chocolate.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3639679.stm"
Page 304, Position 1: For 2,000 years, chocolate was only known as a drink. The first solid chocolate bar was sold in 1849.: "http://www.greenandblacks.com/ca/purely-chocolate/history-of-chocolate.html"
Page 304, Position 2: Hot chocolate seems tastier if served in a cup that is coloured orange or cream.: "http://www.livescience.com/25970-hot-chocolate-better-in-orange-cups.html"
Page 304, Position 3: Aristotle believed rainbows only had three colours.: "http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=BDAA0CD89F650C722410D1FC18E59456.journals?fromPage=online&aid=3652896"
Page 304, Position 4: To the Chinese, rainbows have only five colours.: Granet, Marcel, Chinese Civilization (Routledge, 17 Jun 2013) p.162
Page 305, Position 1: You can only see a rainbow if your back is to the sun.: "http://askabiologist.asu.edu/recipe-rainbows"
Page 305, Position 2: A comet's tail always faces away from the sun: it doesn't tell you anything about the way it's going.: "http://lasp.colorado.edu/education/outerplanets/kbos_comets.php"
Page 305, Position 3: You are ten times more likely to be hit by a comet than to die in a plane crash.: "http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1768618.stm"
Page 305, Position 4: The word 'comet' is from the Greek kometes meaning 'long-haired'.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=comet"
Page 306, Position 1: Ponytails were outlawed in China in 1911.: "http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2048/whats-the-origin-of-pigtails"
Page 306, Position 2: In the 18th century, to 'queue' meant to tie your hair into a plait.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queue_(hairstyle)"
Page 306, Position 3: The French for 'grand piano' - piano à queue - means 'piano with a tail'.: "http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Ã _queue"
Page 306, Position 4: Spotted animals can have striped tails, but stripy animals can't have spotty tails.: Winston, Robert, Evolution Revolution (Dorling Kindersley Ltd, 2 Feb 2009) p.79
Page 307, Position 1: Because they are such solitary animals, there is no collective noun for a group of snow leopards.: "http://www.snowleopard.org/group-get-together-in-the-gobi"
Page 307, Position 2: Sami people never mention a polar bear by name in case they offend it; instead they call it 'the old man in the fur coat'.: "http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27993/27993-h/27993-h.htm"
Page 307, Position 3: Human pollution has caused the average length of polar bears' penises to shrink.: "http://www.livescience.com/7094-study-polar-bear-genitals-shrinking.html"
Page 307, Position 4: A male polar bear will follow the tracks of a breeding female for more than 60 miles.: "https://sites.google.com/site/polarbearsb2013/life-cycle"
Page 308, Position 1: Spiny anteaters form 'love trains' where a female is followed for weeks by a line of ten hopeful males.: "http://www.wildbushluxury.com/page/camps.bamurru_plains.blog.echidna_love_train"
Page 308, Position 2: 'Esperanto' means 'hopeful' in Esperanto.: "http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/la/la/esperanto.htm"
Page 308, Position 3: One in ten lottery tickets in Turkey is bought from a single kiosk with a reputation for selling to winners.: "http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/25/istanbul-luckiest-lottery-kiosk-turkey"
Page 308, Position 4: In 2010, exactly the same numbers came up in the Israeli lottery twice in three weeks.: "http://news.sky.com/story/813112/lotto-shock-as-same-numbers-come-up-twice"
Page 309, Position 1: Four is the only number whose value is the same as the number of letters in its name.: "http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/numeric.htm"
Page 309, Position 2: Multiplying 21978 by 4 reverses the order of the numbers.: "http://www.murderousmaths.co.uk/books/bkmm8xpf.htm"
Page 309, Position 3: MOW, NOON and SWIMS read the same when upside down.: "http://www.qedcat.com/articles/ambigram.pdf"
Page 309, Position 4: In 2010, Brazil, Russia, India and China invited South Africa to join the BRIC group of nations. They would have asked Nigeria, but BRICS made a better acronym.: "http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/03/economist-explains-why-south-africa-brics"
Page 310, Position 1: The acronym 'lol' was being used in the 1960s to mean 'little old lady'.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184777/O-M-G-old-Phrase-loved-todays-teenagers-used-100-years-ago-letter-Winston-Churchill-thought-LOL.html"
Page 310, Position 2: The Korean version of 'lol' is KKK.: "http://kotaku.com/5986170/in-japan-people-do-not-lol-they-wwww"
Page 310, Position 3: More than half of all Koreans are called Kim, Lee, Park, Choi or Jung.: "http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/books/non_fiction/article1302923.ece"
Page 310, Position 4: Jung's grandfather taught his children Hebrew so they would be able to read the newspapers in heaven.: "http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mclynn-jung.html"
Page 311, Position 1: In the 1720s, the Gloucester Journal apologised for 'the present scarcity of news' and offered its readers a selection of poems instead.: Marr, Andew, My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism (Pan Macmillan, 2005) p.67
Page 311, Position 2: Kinmel Hall in Wales had a room that was used for nothing but ironing the daily newspapers.: "http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/kinmel-hall-sold-minutes-before-2675081"
Page 311, Position 3: Royal household staff iron a £5 note every Sunday so that the Queen has something to put in the church collection plate.: Burrell, Paul, A Royal Duty (Penguin UK, 3 Jun 2004)
Page 311, Position 4: The Union Jack only flies over Buckingham Palace when the Queen is not there.: "http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Symbols/RoyalStandard.aspx"
Page 312, Position 1: The British subjects who are happiest in their work are gardeners and florists.: "http://www.rhs.org.uk/News/Blue-Monday"
Page 312, Position 2: A ziraleet is an outcry of joy, especially by several people at once.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 312, Position 3: Strikhedonia is the joy of not giving a damn.: Elster, Charles Harrington, There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life (Gallery Books, 1 Sep 1997) p.270
Page 312, Position 4: Ataraxia is complete freedom from stress and anxiety.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 313, Position 1: John Le Carré has a poster in his study that reads 'Keep Calm and Le Carré On'.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/magazine/john-le-carre-has-not-mellowed-with-age.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0"
Page 313, Position 2: Abraham Lincoln calmed himself down during the American Civil War by playing marbles.: "http://www.neatorama.com/2013/03/27/A-Few-Things-You-Might-Not-Have-Known-About-Abraham-Lincoln/"
Page 313, Position 3: Stressed koalas suffer from a fatal condition called 'wet bottom'.: "http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1300&dat=19861215&id=za4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2pMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4396
Page 313, Position 4: A koala's brain is only 0.2% of its body weight.: "http://library.sandiegozoo.org/factsheets/koala/koala.htm"
Page 314, Position 1: The smallest known brain in a healthy person belonged to Anatole France, winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Literature.: "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2525321/"
Page 314, Position 2: We have more brain cells as a newborn baby than we will ever have again.: "http://www.extension.purdue.edu/providerparent/child%20growth-development/braindev.htm"
Page 314, Position 3: There are 100 trillion atoms in a human cell and 100 trillion cells in the human body.: "http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/11/28/how-many-cells-are-there-in-th/""http://chemistry.about.com/od/biochemistry/f/How-Many-Atoms-Are-There-In-A-Human-Cell.htm"
Page 314, Position 4: 50,000 cells in your body have died since you started reading this sentence.: "http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/education/biology/didyouknow.html"
Page 315, Position 1: The murder rate in the UK is 11 people per million; in Cabot Cove, the setting for Murder, She Wrote, it's 1,490 per million.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9490511/Murder-She-Wrote-location-named-as-murder-capital-of-world.html"
Page 315, Position 2: In Germany, Murder, She Wrote is called Mord ist ihr Hobby ('Murder Is Her Hobby').: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder
Page 315, Position 3: Man-eating tigers almost always attack people from behind.: "http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/sep/25/conservation.climatechange"
Page 315, Position 4: In 23 movies, Dolph Lundgren has killed a total of 662 people.: "http://voices.yahoo.com/which-action-hero-actor-has-killed-most-bad-guys-856225.html"
Page 316, Position 1: Jagdish Raj, holder of the Guinness World Record for 'most typecast actor', played a policeman in 144 movies.: "http://metro.co.uk/2013/07/29/worlds-most-typecast-actor-dies-aged-85-3902897/"
Page 316, Position 2: The world record for keeping a kite aloft is seven and a half days.: "http://www.kites.co.nz/pdffiles/World%20kite%20records.pdf"
Page 316, Position 3: The world shorthand record was set at 350 words a minute in 1922 and has never been beaten.: "http://www.geni.com/people/Nathan-Behrin/6000000011895331174"
Page 316, Position 4: In 2010, a British man spent 121 days in a room with 40 snakes, only to be told that Guinness no longer maintain the world record he was trying to break.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/8036277/One-man-four-months-and-a-room-full-of-snakes.html"
Page 317, Position 1: A rattlesnake that has been out in the rain will not rattle.: "http://www.catskillmountaineer.com/animals-snakes.html"
Page 317, Position 2: Birds can't burp.: "http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-05/it-true-birds-cant-fart"
Page 317, Position 3: Mice can cough.: "http://www.livescience.com/28308-mice-can-cough.html"
Page 317, Position 4: A crocodile cannot move its tongue.: Huchzermeyer , Fritz W., Crocodiles: Biology, Husbandry and Diseases (CABI, 2003) p.13
Page 318, Position 1: 'Jimber-jawed' means having a protruding lower jaw.: "http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jimberjawed"
Page 318, Position 2: A jaguar's jaws are strong enough to bite through a turtle's shell.: "http://www.torontozoo.com/exploretheZoo/AnimalDetails.asp?pg=374"
Page 318, Position 3: A Panamanian termite can close its mouth at more than 150 mph.: "http://www.empiricalzeal.com/2011/12/18/towards-natures-fastest-draw/"
Page 318, Position 4: Adolf Hitler bit his nails.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4678840/Adolf-Hitler-had-poor-table-manners-and-suffered-flatulence.html"
Page 319, Position 1: Kooteninchela deppi is an insect fossil with triple-pronged claws, named after Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands.: "http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/17/ancient-creature-named-after-edward-scissorhands_n_3291391.html"
Page 319, Position 2: Sylvilagus palustris hefneri is a rabbit named after Hugh Hefner.: "http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/08/us/hugh-hefner-fast-facts/index.html"
Page 319, Position 3: Phialella zappai is a jellyfish named after Frank Zappa because its discoverer wanted to meet him.: "http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andymurkin/Resources/MusicRes/ZapRes/jellyfish.html"
Page 319, Position 4: The real names of the Marx brothers were Leonard, Julius, Herbert and Adolph.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Brothers"
Page 320, Position 1: Until the late 17th century, pine cones were known as 'pineapples'.: "http://www.thebubble.org.uk/art-photography/that-old-idea-of-novelty-in-art--17th-century-durham-pineapples"
Page 320, Position 2: The word barack is Hungarian for 'peach', Hebrew for 'flash of lightning' and Swedish for 'shed'.: "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barack"
Page 320, Position 3: Britons spend 60 million hours a week in their sheds.: "http://www.iconeye.com/news/news/icon-of-the-month-the-garden-shed"
Page 320, Position 4: One in ten National Lottery millionaires bought caravans with their winnings; one in four bought hot tubs.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2221172/Jacuzzis-round--From-hot-tubs-caravans-UKs-3-000-Lotto-millionaires-did-jackpots.html"
Page 321, Position 1: St Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow, died of shock after getting into a hot bath.: "http://www.britannia.com/bios/ebk/kentigrd.html"
Page 321, Position 2: St Nicholas resurrected three small boys who had been cut into pieces and pickled in brine.: "http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25410/25410-h/25410-h.htm."
Page 321, Position 3: The medieval French made up their own saints, such as St Coquette, the patron saint of talkative women, and St Jambon, the patron saint of ham.: Lindahl, Carl, Medieval Folklore (ABC-CLIO, 2000)
Page 321, Position 4: Pope John Paul II, who held office for 26 years, created more saints than all the popes in the previous 500 years.: "http://www.walksofitaly.com/blog/vatican/pope-john-paul-ii-who-was-he-and-why-was-he-important-part-i"
Page 322, Position 1: When Pope John Paul II visited California, the Hollywood sign was changed to read 'Holywood'.: "http://www.hollywoodsign.org/the-history-of-the-sign/the-sign-it-is-achangin-turbulence-and-decay/"
Page 322, Position 2: The Golden Palace Casino in Texas bought Pope Benedict XVI's old VW Golf on eBay.: "http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pope-Benedict-XVI-Volkswagen-Golf-/321076800159"
Page 322, Position 3: According to the Vatican, you can reduce the time you spend in purgatory by following the Pope on Twitter.: "http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/17/pope-twitter-purgatory_n_3609470.html"
Page 322, Position 4: The word papa means 'pope' in Italian, 'shark' in Swahili, 'potato' in Quechua and 'arse' in Maori.: "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/papa"
Page 323, Position 1: The Italian name for @ is chiocciola, meaning 'snail'.: "http://www.atsymbol.com/history.htm"
Page 323, Position 2: The Dutch name for @ is apenstaart, meaning 'monkey's tail'.: "http://www.atsymbol.com/history.htm"
Page 323, Position 3: The Danish name for @ is snabel-a, meaning 'a with a long nose'.: "http://www.atsymbol.com/history.htm"
Page 323, Position 4: The Czech name for @ is zavinác, meaning 'pickled herring'.: "http://www.atsymbol.com/history.htm"
Page 324, Position 1: The Manx word for 'kipper' is skeddan jiarg, which literally translates as 'red herring'.: "http://www.manxkippers.com/about-kippers/what-is-the-kippers-origin"
Page 324, Position 2: The word 'jungle' comes from the Hindi jangal, meaning 'waste ground'.: "http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=jungle"
Page 324, Position 3: The Thai word for 'tapir' is P'som-sett, meaning 'mixture', because tapirs look as if they are made up of bits left over from other animals.: "http://www.virginiazoo.org/about-the-zoo/mammals.asp"
Page 324, Position 4: The 'slush' in 'slush fund' was originally leftover fat that sailors sold for profit.: "http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/slush-fund.html"
Page 325, Position 1: In the 1790s, a quarter of the sailors in the Royal Navy were black.: Morning Star, 25 Oct 2011
Page 325, Position 2: The modern British army has more horses than tanks.: "http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22951548"
Page 325, Position 3: American citizens own more assault rifles than the British army.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188727/Americans-buy-AK47s-Russian-military-assault-rifle-surges-popularity.html"
Page 325, Position 4: You can join the army at 16, but you have to be 18 to play Call of Duty.: "http://www.bbfc.co.uk/about-bbfc/media-centre/bbfc-gives-call-duty-modern-warfare-3-18-classification"
Page 326, Position 1: In an average three-hour game of American football, the ball is in play for just 11 minutes.: "http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575002852055561406.html"
Page 326, Position 2: In 2011, the UK's top-selling single in cassette form was *N Sync's 'I'll Never Stop'. It sold a total of 11 copies.: "http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/official-chart-analysis-lana-del-rey-album-sells-117k-43-digital/048000"
Page 326, Position 3: The Basque word for '11' also means 'infinite'.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_(number)"
Page 326, Position 4: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1g-fe7ZxfA"
Page 327, Position 1: The Irish language has one set of numbers for arithmetic, one for counting humans and one for counting non-humans.: "http://mentalfloss.com/article/49480/8-fun-facts-about-irish-language"
Page 327, Position 2: Bees can count up to four.: "http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1130060/Researchers-discover-bees-count--four.html"
Page 327, Position 3: Wasps can recognise each other's faces.: "http://www.livescience.com/17259-paper-wasps-facial-recognition.html"
Page 327, Position 4: Octopuses can be taught to open jam jars, but will have forgotten how by the next day.: "http://www.aquarium.co.za/blog/entry/the_wily_ways_of_the_octopus/"
Page 328, Position 1: During Isaac Newton's 29-year fellowship at Cambridge, he taught only three pupils.: Knox, Kevin C., From Newton to Hawking: A History of Cambridge University's Lucasian Professors of Mathematics (Cambridge University Press, 6 Nov 2003) p.115
Page 328, Position 2: Handel wrote the 259-page score of The Messiah in 24 days.: "http://www.sbts.edu/documents/icw/messiah.pdf"
Page 328, Position 3: The longest anyone has gone without sleep is 18 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes.: "http://www.abc.net.au/science/sleep/facts.htm"
Page 328, Position 4: The medical condition known as a 'stroke' is short for 'a stroke of God's hand'.: "http://abcnews.go.com/Health/cbs-reporter-appears-suffer-stroke-live-grammy-broadcast/story?id=12914429"
Page 329, Position 1: North Carolina, Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas all ban atheists from holding public office.: "http://americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2012-05-unelectable-atheists-us-states-that-prohibit-godless"
Page 329, Position 2: You need a licence to sell seaweed in England.: "http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/21/how-to-forage-for-seaweed"
Page 329, Position 3: Under the UK's Salmon Act of 1986, it is illegal to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.: "http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/62/section/32"
Page 329, Position 4: Honking your car horn, except in an emergency, is illegal in the city of New York.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/31/opinion/the-350-honk.html"
Page 330, Position 1: Only 1% of car alarms that go off are caused by an attempted theft.: "http://www.transalt.org/files/newsroom/reports/caralarms/08ineffective.html"
Page 330, Position 2: When working as an organist, Puccini stole and sold the pipes and then changed the harmonies so no one noticed the missing notes.: "http://www.pov.bc.ca/pdfs/puccini.pdf"
Page 330, Position 3: Charles Dickens's brother Frederick was imprisoned for debt and died an alcoholic.: "http://charlesdickenspage.com/family_friends.html"
Page 330, Position 4: Dickens nicknamed three of his children Flaster Floby, Lucifer Box and Chickenstalker.: "http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25852/25852-h/25852-h.htm"
Page 331, Position 1: Coyotes can run faster than roadrunners.: "http://10000birds.com/how-fast-can-a-roadrunner-run.htm"
Page 331, Position 2: A coyote crossed with a dog is called a 'coydog'.: "http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/coydog.htm"
Page 331, Position 3: A cross between a zebra and a pony is called a 'zony'.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebroid"
Page 331, Position 4: Chemshebongo, the Swahili for 'crossword', means 'boil-brain'.: "http://www.africanadventures.com.au/facts.htm"
Page 332, Position 1: The world's largest jigsaw has 552,232 pieces.: "http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-1/largest-jigsaw-puzzle-most-pieces/"
Page 332, Position 2: The official state sport of Maryland is jousting.: "http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/01glance/html/symbols/sport.html"
Page 332, Position 3: The official state dance of North Carolina is the Shag.: "http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/North_Carolina/popular-dance-shag.html"
Page 332, Position 4: The largest-ever Irish dance involved 10,036 people, and took place in Dublin, Ohio.: "http://www.irishexaminer.com/text/ireland/kfgbqlojqlau/"
Page 333, Position 1: The cancan was originally a dance for couples and its earliest stars were men.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can-can"
Page 333, Position 2: 'Hip-hop' first appeared in English in 1672.: Oxford English Dictionary
Page 333, Position 3: Winston Churchill's mother had a tattoo of a snake on her wrist.: "http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jul/20/tattoos"
Page 333, Position 4: King Charles XIV of Sweden had a tattoo which read 'Death to Kings'.: Adams, Michael, Napoleon and Russia (Bloomsbury, 2006) p.245
Page 334, Position 1: 400,000 human beings are born every day.: "http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/world/30population.html?_r=0 "
Page 334, Position 2: In June 2013, 21 women born in the 19th century were still alive, but no men.: "http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/06/12/last-man-born-in-the-19th-century-dies/"
Page 334, Position 3: The average temperature of a beehive is the same as that of the human body.: "http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7435950/Honey-bees-secret-world-of-heat-revealed.html"
Page 334, Position 4: There is 40 times more energy in empty space than in matter.: "http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2012/07/26/empty-space-has-more-energy-than-everything-in-the-universe-combined/"
Page 335, Position 1: Iceland is the world's youngest land mass; Greenland is the oldest.: "http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_life//Going_East_To_Greenland_(PS)_0_396711.news.aspx"
Page 335, Position 2: If we could extend our lives indefinitely, we'd still die, but in an accident, at an average age of 1,200.: "http://news.usc.edu/25554/Rock-of-Aging/"
Page 335, Position 3: An 'endling' is the final individual in a species.: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endling"
Page 335, Position 4: Eugene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials in the lunar dust. They will still be legible in 50,000 years.: "http://www.space.com/20790-eugene-cernan-astronaut-biography.html"