Liar's Wednesday

Camilla Parker Bowles is sexy

In 2013, a law that was sneaked through Parliament last session, will come into effect prohibiting the disposal of chewing gum in regular household waste. Due to it's poor biodegradability, and the hazard it presents to wildlife in landfill sites, used chewing gum must be collected and can only be disposed of at authorised collection points. Further to this a recycling program is to be introduced to meet the further stipulation that by 2015 new chewing gum must comprise at least 30% recycled matter. Collection points are expected to be divided into "spearmint", "peppermint" and "other".

Sadly, apart from the flavour, this is true:

And what are the recycling units made from?
Recycled chewing gum.

mind ache...

Levitation is possible, as long as you stand on one leg then lift the other off the ground really, really carefully.

France was originally a cross between a leper and a penal colony, basically every other European country deported its arrogant arseholes that no-one liked there so that they no longer had to put up with them.

You can still check Wikipedia on your iPhone

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Telephones were originally used to communicate with people who were too far away to be heard.

Other gems available in ye olde fact of the day thread....

The black bits in bananas *are *spiders eggs

Fuck this!!

You can make a foreign person, by mating a dog with a criminal.

Although your mind and body sleep at night, your fingers never do, sometimes if you wake up in the night you can catch them "mucking around".

1 out of every 40 people are dead.

these are copyright tynan but all true.

The central portion of the London Underground actually utilises tunnels originally dug in Roman times. The tunnels were started as hypocausts in a massive project to heat London to a temperature that the soft Mediterranean legionarys could abide. The chamber built to house the enormous furnace was used to form the vault under the Bank of England.

Explains the climate on the Central line.

Chatroullete was invented by Sauron so he can watch you wank.

Wikipedia isn't blacked out, its the malevolent magnet overseers tampering with our retinas

Privatization of public transportation was a success in the late 80s/early 90's and Britons now enjoy some of the cheapest and best rail and bus services in Europe.

Global warming is a conspiracy invented by Don Cheadle so that he could broadcast his cartoon Captain Planet then star in this "hilarious" video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwJaELXadKo

Broccoli wasn't invented until 1987. Think about it- did you ever eat broccoli before 1987?

Privatization of public transportation was a success in the late 80s/early 90's and Britons now enjoy some of the cheapest and best rail and bus services in Europe.

There is always someone who has to step over the fucking line, JESUS, there are lies then there is making it sound like Maggie T actually did something good! ;)

Ian Fleming chose James Bond's surname because his favourite brothel was on Bond street

Boris Johnstone is a fixie' ridin' hermaphrodite who wears Robin Cousins skate kit on a Wedneday when he goes winkle picking on Clapham common

so there

Pineapples originally grew on trees (as their name suggests) however they were cross bread with a low shrub in the C18th to make harvesting easier.

Mercury and Pluto are not planets per se but huge meteorites - reminders of a bigger planet suck into the sun between 100 and 65 million years ago. There was one more meteorite, but it hit the Earth and consequently wiped out dinosaurs.

Daniel O'Donnell is a Mafia hit-man.

I discovered gravity.

Probability can be overcome with perfume.

Stethoscopes don't really do anything.

Chocolate turns your poo yellow.

The Queen is a lizard.

Silent films are just on mute.

Mountains are shy.

Philosophy is gardening.

Gardening is philosophy.

When you go and see a film at the cinema, a burglar rearranges your bedroom.

When you sleep, donkeys sing.

Birthday's are a myth.

Horses hate themselves.

Beaches rot your memory.

Post 85 is truth.

'Minge', meaning 'vagina' was named after Brian Minge who, ironically, was frightened of vaginas.

true colour film was only invted in the early 1970's, up till that point all colour photos had to be hand painted.

The moon doesn't affect the tides....James Corden does