Quotes from John Lloyd

A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB

He once wrote: "Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

The opening lines of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat are: 'There were four of us.

Hravat is the Croatian word for "Croat" and it's where we get the word cravat. So Croatia means "tie land.

Urban birds have learned to line their nests with cigarette butts. Nicotine is a powerful insecticide that wards off mites, lice and fleas.

Dildos are illegal in Texas.

Before dentists' chairs were invented, the patient's head was clenched between the surgeon's knees.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. HENRY MITCHELL

In 2013, the Venezuelan government accused the opposition of hoarding toilet paper and causing a national shortage.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

80% of plane crashes occur in the first three or last eight minutes of a flight.

Soccer' is not an Americanism. It's short for 'Association Football' and was popularised by Charles Wreford-Brown, captain of the English national team 1894–5.

To find out what color egg a hen will lay, examine her earlobes. Hens with white earlobes lay white eggs; hens with red earlobes lay brown ones.

A bite from the Brazilian wandering spider results in an erection that lasts for several hours.

4% of the sand on Normandy beaches is made up of tiny metal particles from the D-Day landings.

If you thought "Rabbie Burns" wrote "Auld Lang Syne," you'd be doubly wrong. Burns never signed his name "Rabbie" or "Robbie" (or, indeed, "Bobbie" Burns, as some North Americans insist on calling him). His signatures included "Robert," "Robin," "Rab"—and, on at least one occasion, "Spunkie.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. MARK TWAIN

Vranyo is Russian for lying even when everyone knows that's what you're doing.

In English, the name of every number shares a letter with each neighbor. One shares an O with two, which shares a T with three, which shares an R with four, which shares an F with five, which shares an I with six—and so on indefinitely.

Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs.

Brunei ants even have guards that explode their own heads when threatened

The Victorians made tiepins out of badgers' penis bones.   Some

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only. RÉMY DE GOURMONT

A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. BILL COSBY