• The world's shortest war was in 1969, when Honduras and El Salvador fought for 30 minutes over a soccer game
• Olympic badminton cocks must have 14 feathers
• The people most killed in bank robberies are the robbers
• "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be typed using only one line of a standard computer keyboard
• The world's smallest army is the Swiss Guard, stationed at the Vatican, in Rome. To join, you must be exactly 174cm tall unmariied, Catholic, Swiss, and of sound moral and ethical character

Fun at England's expense

• Windston Churchill was born in a ladies' toilet
• The average length of the English penis is 5.2 inches
• In England, in the 1880s, "pants" was considered a dirty word

• The most expensive bikini in the world was worn by Molly Sims - it costs $37.5 million, and was made almost entirely of diamonds
• The chances of any single person becoming a billionaire are 0.00001 per cent
• The world's largest yo-yo is two metres wide and weighs in at a finger-straining 400kg
• The most popular name for a dog in the United States in Max
• Starfish have no brain
• Former US president William Taft was so fat he once got stuck in the White House bathtub
• "Groaking" is the practise of watching people eating food in the hope they'll offer you some
• A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight
• A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon
• A "syzygy" occurs when all of the planets in our solar system line up
• Your skin weighs twice as much as your brain
• Porcupines float
• Your thumb is always the same length as your nose
• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in the first-class section
• Honey is the only food that doesn't spoil. Honey found in the pyramids can still be eaten

True or False?

Three facts. Which one's made up?

• There are more than 250,000 trees in Central Park, New York
• The youngest Pope was just 11 years old
• Guatemalan fruit bats are the only mammals that can fly backwards

Highlight here _1.T 2.T 3.F _for answer

'Pub Ammo', Zoo Weekly, (Pub Ammo), Jan29th07, pp. 90.