Useless Facts

That fact about George didn't surprise me that much. Imagine, every happy memory he had was somehow connected with Fred and after his death it was an unhappy memory.

Belly dancing siriously?
Wow - a long list!!!

The Elder Wand contains Thestral tail hair for its core.

"Erised" is "desire" spelled backwards because the mirror shows one what they want most in the world.

The Ministry of Magic visitor's code to get in through the phone booth was the combination 6-2-4-4-2 which can spell out "magic".

The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.

More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

phobophobia comes from the Greek word phobia which means fear and is the phobia of phobias

Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.

If you get water flowing fast enough, it can cut metal.

Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope

Logophobia- Fear of words

Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body

Judeophobia- Fear of Jews

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words (now that's just taking the p*ss! lol)

Platipi are the only mammals that lay eggs

Giraffes can lick their ears

Judeophobia - Maybe Hitler had that?

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog." uses every letter of the alphabet!

WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. 'WASITACARORACATISAW'.. This is the only English sentence which even if we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.

The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.

Ela~ I posted the fear od long words fact already.

I'm watching this women pee on the parking lot of a pawn shop.

My cousin's dog dries itself off on a towel by herself.

It's extremely hard for me to type in fake nails.

I cut my finger chopping lemon grass lats week and am on the 12th volume of SKIP BEAT

To practice her slap/punch on Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Tom Felton actually told Emma Watson to slap him across the face but he only meant to slap in like those film slaps and not an actual full blown one which Emma actually did! She slapped him across the face off set!

Becca - sorry love.

Ela: I like that one about Emma Watson!

Go Emma!!

Rupert Grint drew a picture of Alan Rickman (Professor Snape) on set. It was kind of amazing, but really ugly. Then he found out he was right behind him, watching him draw this picture. Hahahaha I'd love to see that picture

GO RUPERT!!!

LOL Rupert!

Dobby, from the moment we first saw him in the film Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, jumping on Harry's bed, he was "slated" (J.K Rowling's words) to die.

Poor Dobby! I was so affected by his death. cried for half an hour when I first read it.

Rowling claims that her wizard-ing world is purely imaginary and she doesn’t believe in the kind of magic found in her books.

Now that breaks my world

When asked about the Harry Potter series, Pope John Paul II said the stories helped children see the difference between good and evil. However, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) said the books “erode Christianity in the soul” of young people and are “inconsistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church.” Ratzinger said the books were a “subtle seduction.”

Well I don't care what the Pope thinks! I'm pagan!

When the Catholics took over the Celts, instead of tearing down the statues and temples to Nyx and Gaia, they said that they were statues and temples for Mary.

My great great great great great great great great great great - well, lets just say very old family members were Celts

Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey are Welsh.

That's cool Ela! Interesting family. I'm pagan too! Just saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 for a second time in the cinema

Prince William's nickname in college was "P-Willy".

When young and impoverished, Pablo Picasso kept warm by burning his own paintings.

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution.

Pierce Brosnan once worked with the circus as a fire eater!

There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Wow, you got interesting facts there

There have been 7 different James Bonds for 22 films.

St. David is the patron saint of Wales.

Traditionally the Prince of Wales is the eldest son of the English monarch.

If you trace back far enough everyone is related

That's cool

I am going away for 2 weeks from Tuesday onwards.

I am going to a relaxing weekend at spa! Can't wait!

Where are you going Ela?

I almost had a romantic moment with my crush but then his brother and my sister came and ruined it

Woo very nice!

Awww Rhia! Am so sorry that it got ruined love!

I am going to Barcelona for 4 days then going straight down to Devon - South England for a week.

Thanks Ela and I'm gonna see him tomorrow

Oh good good i hope you get that moment again but nothing interrupting you this time!