- To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs -- it will let you go instantly.
- To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers.
- To romanticise his image, Warner Brothers claimed that Humphrey Bogart was born on Christmas day; he was born 23 January 1899.
- Tokyo was once called Edo.
- Tomato ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
- Trevor Francis was the first soccer player to be transferred for £1 000 000 ( Birmingham City to Nottingham Forest 1979 )
- Truffles, or mushrooms that grow below the ground, are one of the world's most expensive foods. One variety, Tuber melanosporum, can cost between $800 and $1,500 a pound.
- Turkey's often look up at the sky during a rainstorm. Unfortunately some have been known to drown as a result.
- Turquoise was once called 'Turkey stone'.
- Twenty two carat gold has 916 parts per thousand pure gold.
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