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It was proposed the body heat given off by live chickens kept with the bombs would be sufficient to keep all the relevant components operating during extreme cold weather conditions. Older goats faint against walls to prevent themselves from being eaten.

Symptoms of the disorder include obeying any order given to you suddenly and the need to repeat foreign phrase s constantly. Forfeit: Grit , Sand :"Tangent: No edible oysters produce pearls. There is a myth involving a tankard with a glass bottom that is not true. The ceiling had a shower system in it so that fluid s on the floor could easily be moved into the gutter s on the side of the floor into drain s on the side. Jeremy then claims that officially, the British were the fifth worst tourist s in the world, according to a survey of 15, hotelier s.

The worst were the French. The best tourists were the Americans. Jeremy attacks Greece because was he was once put in a Greek prison , but he escaped. You cannot use lie detectors in the UK or United States courts. The FBI claim they are about as reliable as astrology and tea leaves.

He escaped and was never seen again. Houdini used to debunk psychic s, but this cost him his friendship with Arthur Conan Doyle. Some people now believe that he did not die from a punch to the stomach , but of appendicitis , which was worsened by the punch.

Some people want Houdini's body exhumed to see if he was actually murdered by spiritualist s. One of them disappeared and Conan Doyle never saw him again. Mansfield Smith-Cumming or "C", founder of MI6 , discovered you could also use semen as invisible ink.

So the Russians instead used secret document s, and spies stole the documents from bin s, as part of Operation Tamarisk. The spies complained that they had to dig through all sorts of unpleasant items such as amputated limb s. However, this resulted in their spy masters asking them to steal the limbs to see what kind of shrapnel the Russians used. Operation Tamarisk was supposedly very successful, and without it, there might still be a communist Russia. It was used as a plot line in an episode of Hawaii Five-O.

This enzyme could also be used to get rid of mouth ulcer s. Forfeit: Jump :"Tangent: In the Empire State Building , a lift did have all its wires cut when a B bomber collided with the building in and the propeller s cut the wires.

However, the brakes worked and the passenger s in the lift were saved. Earwax tastes very bitter. If you squirt washing-up liquid in a pond where water boatmen are standing, they will sink. He called them "Baby Gays". Unilever produce Like eye colour , hanging or attached earlobes are inherited from your parents.

Hanging earlobes dominate attached ones. They do not however improve their hearing , and are mainly used for cooling purposes. They are also used for aggressive displays. It was a punishment used in the English countryside where the villagers made noise using metal objects in the middle of the night, that would drive the criminal out.

Jesus was being literal when he said it and it was a common phrase at the time. Similar phrases appear in the Torah and the Qur'an. Rich people tried to create "get-out" clauses when they read this, so they came up with the idea it was a gate into Jerusalem , and that it was a mistranslation of the Greek for "rope".

They are divided into two, so they are looking upwards all the time. The main problem in crashes is that under pressure, people try to open their seat belt s like those in a car. Two bits equalled a quarter of a American dollar , and "two bits" is still a nickname for a quarter. In a similar incident before, he once said on TV that he liked Quorn , and received a box of it.

Tony Hancock first became well-known as a Robert Newton impersonator. Everyone's elephant card was a picture of Elmer the Patchwork Elephant , rather than the usual grey elephant.

They belonged to Little Tich , one of the great entertainers of his day, who used them for his "Big Boot" routine. He had 12 fingers and 12 toes and stopped growing when he was 10 years old.

The word "tich" is named after him. He influenced Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. The King enjoyed his act so much, he gave him 30 acre s of land. He could smoke and breathe through his bottom. Taillefer juggled with his sword , and when an Englishman came down, Taillefer cut off his head. In one scene in the tapestry, it says, " William comforted his troops" and shows him sticking a spear up a soldier's backside. However, "comforted" then meant "encourage". The answer is that none of the ballet dancers were elephants.

However, it was unsuccessful. The panel is presented with an embarrassing domain name of a website, and have to guess what they provide. It is believed to be the world's biggest invertebrate. Its eyes are 1 foot in diameter. It comes from being overfed. Forfeit: It's Dead :"Tangent: Jeremy once bought his dad some ghost koi for his pond , but they disappeared in the pond and killed all the other fish in the pond.

It is considered impolite to answer the question. All the others are waters, mere s or tarn s. Some suspect it to be something to do with having sex with someone else's wife. The myth about English archers showing the enemy they could fire their arrows was invented in the s. Other words used by them include "Mrmrminger" which is a beautiful woman. In , P. Some even proposed they kill Jumbo and Barnum to keep the elephant English. Jumbo was killed in a train crash.

His skull was broken in over places. Jumbo was stuffed and used as a mascot for Tufts University until he was destroyed in a fire. His name is the origin of the epithet "Jumbo". It includes the advice that you should not be afraid of vomiting , you should not offer your handkerchief to anyone unless it has been freshly washed nor look into it after you have blown your nose, and should not move back and forth on your chair, as this gives the impression of breaking wind.

The surnames that dropped in use in recent years include "Handcock", "Glasscock", "Higginbottom", "Shufflebottom" and "Winterbottom". However, it is only the smallest county for half a year due to tide s. Swans have a fishy taste, although the best-tasting ones are fed on oat s. Forfeit: The Queen :"Tangent: The most common cause of death for swans is electrocution.

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