| 1. | Coach travel is the safest form of road transport in the country. |
| 2. | Saddam Hussein's codename while in US custody in 2004/5 was "Victor". |
| 3. | Adding milk to tea negates the health-giving effects of a hot brew. |
| 4. | The word "jaywalking" came from the US slang "jay", a term popular in the early 20th Century meaning a rustic newcomer unfamiliar with city ways. |
| 5. | Cloudy apple juice is healthier than clear, containing almost double the antioxidants which protect against heart disease and cancer. |
| 6. | Dishcloths are purged of 99% of their bacteria during two minutes in a microwave. |
| 7. | A haddock's mating call starts as a slow knocking sound, before turning into a quicker hum similar to a small motorcycle revving its engine. |
| 8. | Newcastle is the noisiest place in England. |
| 9. | The people who built Stonehenge lived at an ancient village in Durrington Walls. |
| 10. | Brazil nuts are seeds encased in an outer shell that weighs more than 1kg. |
| 11. | Astronauts wear nappies during launch and re-entry because they can't stop what they're doing should they need to urinate. |
| 12. | Georgic is a punishment dished out to Eton pupils which involves the copying out of hundreds of lines of Latin. |
| 13. | Tony Blair does not keep a personal diary. |
| 14. | Antony and Cleopatra were ugly. |
| 15. | 10% of university work from across the UK is plagiarised. |
| 16. | Chimpanzees make their own spears for hunting. |
| 17. | Two cups of spearmint tea a day is thought to control excessive hair growth for women. |
| 18. | Burglar alarms, traffic wardens and crowded buses are good news for home owners, signalling an area is on the up. |
| 19. | Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hosts a daily radio phone-in show. |
| 20. | More than half (52%) of smokers haven't told their parents about their habit. |
| 21. | Only about half of China's population can speak the national language, Mandarin. |
| 22. | The brief flowering of the cherry blossom tree is taken so seriously in Japan that forecasts are used to plan festivals, and travel agents use them to plan tours. |
| 23. | To be found attractive, women should sway their hips and men their shoulders (although researchers call this a "shoulder swagger"). |
| 24. | The are 30,000 wild parakeets in London. |
| 25. | Martina Navratilova has spent four years secretly working as an artist. |
| 26. | Harvesting rhubarb in candlelight helps preserve its flavour. |
| 27. | Drinking, drug-taking teenagers are in the decline, according to a survey by the Information Centre. |
| 28. | Designer discount retailer TK Maxx is called TJ Maxx in the US. |
| 29. | The average duvet is home to 20,000 live dust mites. |
| 30. | Serving anything more than tea and biscuits at a political meeting is an offence called "treating" and punishable by a year in prison or an unlimited fine, under the the Representation of the People Act 1893. |
| 31. | There is mobile phone reception from the summit of Mount Everest. |
| 32. | Anti-Americanism began in Paris in the 18th Century. |
| 33. | Female civil servants in India are questioned about their menstrual cycle as part of their appraisal. |
| 34. | Kryptonite exists. |
| 35. | Denmark is the happiest country in Europe; Italy the unhappiest. (The UK was 9th out of 15.) |
| 36. | A water-tight denial by a politician – as opposed to one that leaves room for later manoeuvre - is known as a Sherman pledge. The other sort is called a non-denial denial. |
| 37. | Spiralling obesity rates are forcing councils to upgrade their crematoria, to take wider coffins. |
| 38. | Gerry Adams doesn't own a credit card, so gets a friend to download songs from the internet. |
| 39. | The secret to happiness is accepting misery. |
| 40. | A new three-bedroom house must have at least 38 plug sockets. |
| 41. | There are 1,200 exhumations every year in the UK, but not all of those are part of criminal cases. |
| 42. | Nearly seven out of 10 (69%) of adults are still in touch with at least one childhood friend. |
| 43. | Bernard Manning worked as an armed guard watching over senior Nazis locked up in Berlin’s Spandau prison. |
| 44. | Europe has a vodka belt comprising Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, although the drink is also made in countries such as Britain, France, Italy and Spain. |
| 45. | Domestic cats can trace their descent to the Middle East. |
| 46. | Peanuts can be made into diamonds. |
| 47. | The prime ministerial Jaguar is called Pegasus. |
| 48. | You can be arrested for using someone's wi-fi network without permission. |
| 49. | CDs were nearly called mini-racks. |
| 50. | Left-handed people are called sinistral. |
| 51. | Nick Clegg, the Lib Dems' new leader, once took a road trip across the US with his friend Louis Theroux. |
| 52. | There are 17 surviving versions of the Magna Carta - or 17 Magnae Cartae. |
| 53. | Renowned atheist Professor Richard Dawkins likes singing Christmas carols. |
| 54. | The Australian town of Eucla has its own time zone. |
| 55. | Books used to be bound in human skin. |
| 56. | Eddie Irvine is Britain's wealthiest sports star – beating the Beckhams into second place by £30m. |
| 57. | Sleeping on the job is tolerated in Japanese work culture, as long as you remain upright and obey certain other rules. It's called inemuri. |
| 58. | The Romans had roadmaps. |
| 59. | The word Blighty comes from "bilayti", the Urdu for homeland. |
| 60. | The Queen took her corgi on honeymoon. |
| 61. | Janet and John were named Alice and Jerry in the United States. |
| 62. | Until the late 1990s, the RAF's nuclear bombs could be activated using a bicycle lock key. |
| 63. | Cats can be police constables. |
| 64. | King Tut had buck teeth. |
| 65. | The Italian Mafia have commandments. |
| 66. | Gun ownership per person in Finland is the third highest in the world. |
| 67. | The brain can turn down its ability to see in order to listen to complex sounds like music. |
| 68. | Of the waste in UK landfills, 0.1% is plastic carrier bags. |
| 69. | Dogs occasionally shoot their owners in the US. |
| 70. | IP addresses will run out in 2010. |
| 71. | An ai is a three-toed sloth from South America (and the word that clinched Paul Allan the title of national Scrabble champion). |
| 72. | Dumbledore is gay. |
| 73. | UN population projections go as far as 2300. |
| 74. | Sheffield FC is the world’s oldest football club. |
| 75. | CO2 emissions from shipping are twice the level of aviation. |
| 76. | George Clooney and Pierce Brosnan have had Bell's Palsy - a nerve condition that can result in paralysis on one side of the face. |
| 77. | Leeches are used as treatment for cauliflower ears. |
| 78. | A bdelloid rotifer is a pond-dwelling organism that has survived 80 million years without sex. |
| 79. | Woodwork lessons are known as "resistant materials" in schools. |
| 80. | Adults use maths skills 14 times daily on average and literacy skills 23 times a day. |
| 81. | The opening bars to the theme tune of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em spelt the title of the series in Morse code. |
| 82. | The children who sang on Pink Floyd's number one hit Another Brick in the Wall (Pt 2) couldn't appear in the video because they didn't hold Equity cards. |
| 83. | Jack Straw has intervened in alleged crimes four times, apprehending a person on three occasions. |
| 84. | On average a UK commuter travels the equivalent of two-and-a-half times around the globe over a full working career. |
| 85. | A 23.8lb baby was born in the US in 1879, but it only survived 11 hours. |
| 86. | There is a monastery in every village in Burma. |
| 87. | Relocating crocodiles doesn't work - they come back. |
| 88. | Deep-voiced men have more children. |
| 89. | Being born without an ear is called microtia. |
| 90. | Chickens can be diagnosed with depression. |
| 91. | In Iceland, 96% of women go to university. |
| 92. | Zsa Zsa Gabor is related to Paris Hilton. |
| 93. | Dinosaurs had creches. |
| 94. | Osama Bin Laden is known to fellow jihadists as Abu Abdullah. |
| 95. | In Ethiopia the start of the year 2000 was celebrated in September. |
| 96. | Bees can detect explosives. |
| 97. | There have been at least two children given the name "Superman" in the UK since 1984. |
| 98. | Prison officers are on average assaulted eight times a day. |
| 99. | Each slug eats twice its body weight a day. |
| 100. | Dogs can have two noses. |