One of my favourite facts is

[Fnaar]

So, if horses could just evolve their wrists a bit lower down, they might be able to do more stuff, like type, craft things from string and so on....

 

[User482]

The guns on HMS Belfast could fire a shell, weighing as much as a small car, from Tower Bridge as far as Heathrow Airport.

The guns on HMS Belfast are currently trained on Scratchwood service station, which is 12 miles away!

 

[Dayvo]

J nob is an anagram of Bonj

PMSL!

 

[oxbob]

HMS Victory has never been decommissioned, it is still part of the RN fleet

 

[PaulB]

Only three people have ever been awarded a bar to their Victoria Cross. One is buried in.. Liverpool,

Captain Noel Godfrey Chevasse, Medical Officer of the 10th Liverpool Scottish Battalion, the King's Liverpool Regiment.

 

[Cubist]

Captain Noel Godfrey Chevasse, Medical Officer of the 10th Liverpool Scottish Battalion, the King's Liverpool Regiment.

My school house was named after Noel Godfrey Chavasse.

 

[ianrauk]

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!

 

[TheDoctor]

Another car fact: the Austin Allegro was more aerodynamically efficient reversing than going forward.

Probably designed by an Italian.

That car's far too ugly to have been designed by an Italian.

If you remove someones entire circulatory system and stretch it out, it's marginally better for them then eating a Family Bucket from KFC.
Fact.

May not actually be true. OK, it's a lie.

 

[PaulB]

You know that song, "Nobody does it better"? That was written about me, that was. Fact!