98% of the weight of water is made up from oxygen. (I can't get my head round this one!  I don't know - water - you can't live in it, you can't live without it.)

Cats can make over 100 vocal sounds, while dogs can only make 10. (They obviously haven't met my guys!)

The colour of the West German football team's away strip was green. (This is allegedly in honour of the fact that the first team who would play them after WWII was Ireland. Unfortunately it looks as if the truth is more mundane, in that it's the Deutscher Futball-Bund's official colour. Of course it's all moot […]

In the mid-1700's, grapefruit was known as the "Forbidden Fruit." (If they called it that nowadays sales would soar!)

Collecting Beer mats is called Tegestology. Beer mat collectors are called Tegestologists. (It comes from the Latin - tegetis, which means covering or mat. What do they call collectors of beer?)

The worlds strongest beer is 'Samuel Adams' Triple Bock, which has reached 17% alcohol by volume. To obtain this level, however, they had to use a champagne yeast. (Writes in diary "Samuel Adams Triple Bock")