A Chinese man from Songyuan City has made what he claims is the world’s largest working mobile phone — it’s a metre high, weighs 22kg and is an exact copy of his own phone… only 620 times bigger

Underbelly gangster Carl Williams once wanted to be a policeman 

In ancient India, cannabis was used to delay ejaculation

Osama bin Laden’s father had a dozen wives and 50 children 

Over four million cars in Brazil run on gasohol instead of petrol. Gasohol is a fuel made from sugar cane 


Most medical students and coroners say that your chest cavity smells strangely similar to lamb

The first digital watch was made by Pulsar. Unveiled in 1972, it cost $2500

It takes about 1000 years for a drop of seawater to circulate around the world

Six per cent of men propose over the phone  
  


Chimpanzees are the only animals with a bone in their penis

The mineral content and general make-up of human bone is so similar to some species of South Pacific coral that plastic surgeons are now using it in facial reconstructions

In Texas, it’s illegal to write graffiti on another person’s cow 

Pom chick Lee Amor pleaded guilty to calling or texting her exboyfriend Timothy Mortimore more than 10,000 times over a 65-day period

The official diameter your “personal space” is 2.4m

Nearly half of the world’s scientists are currently working on military projects 

The T-Rex roar in the movie Jurassic Park is a blast from a baby elephant mixed with alligator growls and tiger shrieks
 
There are over 100 viruses that cause the common cold 

Six per cent of people suffer from “sleep paralysis” — the inability to move or speak for several minutes after waking 

In the 1999 Dakar Rally, 50 competitors were held