Did You Know?

[Caran]

Britain is the only country in the world that doesn't have it's name on their postage stamps! Just thought I'd share that with you. Any other little snippets of trivia available?

[stewey]

I read that also, Caran, a few years ago, The stamp is now known as a "Penny Black". History is great: "The present is the sum total of the past".

[jno]

it is because at the time, nobody else had stamps so there was no need to identify them. (And if there was, the queen's head did the job.)

You can't lick your own elbow.

[bibblebub]

You can't lick your own elbow

Danny Baker said that on QI and several episodes later they had a woman in the audience who showed that it was possible.

[ummmm]

Lots of people licking their own elbows on youtube.

[boxtops]

Someone said over the weekend that if the Queen had to produce photo evidence, all she had to do was show them a stamp :-)

[tonyav]

Or a five pound note maybe boxy.

[ummmm]

I just checked a £5 note. That is more of a likeness than a stamp.

[boxtops]

Tony, I think you are right (but there's a problem, EIIR never carries money :-)

[tonyav]

Well yes thats true boxy, does she carry any stamps though.

[mightyWBA]

If everybody in the world (7 billion) stood together shoulder to shoulder they would need an area of 862 square miles.. less than the area of Warwickshire(885 square miles).

Canada has an area of 3,855,103 sq miles...Plenty of room there then!

[Prudie]

When I was a child I heard all the people in the world would fit on the Isle of Wight - but then it would sink.

[daffy654]

You can't sneeze with your eyes open.

[AlwaysConfused]

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails

[Hopkirk]

You can't go round London on motorways and get back where you started from.

[stewey]

Prior to being purchased and commissioned by the Royal Navy, HMS Bounty was a merchant vessel named "Bethia"...Not a lot of people know that:)

[mccfluff]

is anyone else trying to lick their elbow (i can't)

[stewey]

I'm trying to, but my big toe keeps getting in the way.

[chrisgel]

There are 178 legs in the song "The 12 Days of Christmas"

[Davethedog]

Hopkirk - I am puzzled what about the M25 or do you discount the Dartford Tunnel?

[nescio]

...and Britain was the only country not to have its name on its coins. The Euro spoiled that particular uniqueness.