Its all true

Billy Kovachy

Not having bibles,Roman men used to swear to the truth of their evidence by clasping their testicles. This is the origin of the word 'testimony'.


Pope Claixtus III “excommunicated” Halleys comet in 1456 believing it to be an agent of the devil.

A cockroach which has been decapitated will live for several weeks before eventually dying of starvation.

Dogs have 17 muscles in each ear, used to lift the ear, lower it and swivel it.

A shrimps heart is in its head.

Mice complete copulation in an average of 5 seconds.

Ernest Wrights 1939 novel Gadsby contained no letter Es, save those in his name.

A report by the Pennsylvania State College of Medicine has concluded that having a hangover doesn't actually impair performance at work.

In France you can be arrested for calling your child Prune, Cherry or Vanilla.

The suicide rate in America rose by 12% after Marilyn Monroe's suspicious death in 1962.

In japan there are more than 13 million golfers- but incredibly there are only 1,200 golf courses.

A 93-year-old Israeli woman was arrested for drug-dealing. She tried to sell heroin to detectives believing they were customers.

600,000 men in the US are impotent due to crotch injuries. 40% were caused by “vigorous cycling”.

A couple who rang their GP when their baby swallowed a condom called back to say that it was all right now: they'd found another one.

The worlds least competitive football league is in the Isle of Scilly. The Championship title is a toss between two teams – The Gunners and The Wanderers.

India has the highest number of universities in the world.

In Finland there is an annual World Championship of Mosquito Killing.

Tea contains chemicals called flavanoids which may protect against strokes. A 15-year study of 552 men aged between 50 and 69 showed that those who drank five cups of tea a day had 69% less chance of having a stroke, compared to men drinking two cups a day fewer.

Your ears are growing at a rate of .0087 inch a year, or about half an inch over 50 years.

Birmingham City football club didn't get to play in the 1921 FA Cup. The club secretary had forgotten to post the application form.

In response to the Californian driving exam question: ”Do you yeild when a blind pedestrian is crossing the road?” one student wrote: “What for? He can't see my licence plate”

A Mexican who escaped four train crashes in two months got a fatal electric shock while playing with his son's train set.

An 18-year-old car thief spent two months in a male prison in Georgia,USA before warders discovered the convict was a woman. One of them later said:”I guess we could have been a little more observant”.

A woman in New Zealand called the local police and entreated them to arrest a bush that her dog was angrily barking at.

A recent study of virgins at Illinois University found that women were more likely to abstain for moral reasons, and men from sexual insecurity.

On 24 November 1971 a man hijacked an internal US flight. After threatening to blow up the plane he received $200,000 and a parachute. As the Boeing 727 flew over the Cascade mountains he jumped out. Despite an exhaustive search by hundreds of troops, no parachute, body or money was found.