Facts you made up

[Albino Rover]

Lionel Messi had an unsuccessful trial at Real Madrid when he was 13.

[Enigma]

Trevor McDonald was a promising bass-baritone singer in his youth until he strained his vocal choards, conversely Willard White was briefly a junior TV news reporter in his native Jamaica before he won a scholarship at the Juilliard School in New York.

[Enigma]

Julie Andrew's maternal granmother's maiden name was actually Poppins.

[BigRubberFist]

The inventor of the 'vehicle reversing' warning sound got the idea for his invention when a truck reversed over him.

[Tommy Nooka]

12 out of 10 cats prefer Pedigree Chum.

[Albino Rover]

Ben Kingsley was wrongly accused of murder in April 1983. Shortly after the LAPD investigation began there were several eye-witness reports of Kingsley having been in the area at the estimated time of the murder. Police suspicion rose when the imprint of the bludgeon on the victim's head remarkably resembled an Oscar.

The murder was actually committed by Best Original Song winner Will Jennings, who won for "Up Where We Belong" from An Officer And A Gentleman, the same night as Kingsley won his. Jennings won another Oscar in 1998 for "My Heart Will Go On", which he wrote in prison.

[Bully Wee Villa]

Morgan Freeman wasn't the intended original narrator for "March of the Penguins". He was chosen as a last-minute replacement when Frankie Boyle became unexpectedly unavailable.

[nsr]

Margaret Thatcher collected rare antique harpsichords, all of which were stolen shortly before her death.

[rustyarabnuts]

Colour paint is illegal in the Uruguayan town of Grey Bentos

[banana]

Pub bouncer John Ronald innovated the now standard 'Eyes and Guard' method of door security in the early 1900s Birmingham, then softened somewhat after marrying Reuel Tolkien who encouraged him to follow his dream of writing fantasy novels.

[Bully Wee Villa]

Bill Oddie's lifelong obsession with bird-watching is no coincidence. His great-grandfather, on his mother's side, was a pelican.

[Zen Archer (Raconteur)]

Hillary Swank's grandfather changed the family name by deed poll, it used to be Smasturbate.

[I'm Brian]

The Island of Papa Smurf in the Orkneys had to change it's name in 1934 due to copyright infringements. It is now known as Papa Westray

[Albino Rover]

Pop singer-songwriter Mika is the gay older brother of Paolo Nutini.

[EdgarusQPFC]

"You can write war and peace in 20 minutes" a fact made up by a dickhead of a manager today in work at someone, eh no you can't actually mate.

[Bully Wee Villa]

War and peace.

Took me about five seconds.

[DAVE M]

0.8% of Chinese citizens have unwittingly sexually assaulted a wasp.

This was discovered by the U.S. military in 2010 while working with NASA. On a routine programme developing space satellite photography, the evidence surfaced.

The most repeat offenders were women over the age of 50 from the northern regions.

The most recent wasp victim was tracked down, fitted with the smallest space-suit ever made, and was flown directly into the sun.

He was renamed Susan and has a plaque in the national war museum.

[topcat(The most tip top)]

To mark the bicentenial In 1976 the State Legislature in Atlanta officially renamed the State "Georgia" in honour of Star Trek actor George Takei as opposed to "Georgia" in honour of the Hanoverian King George II.

They had been going to go for "Spockia" but realised the cost of changing the signs and stationery would be prohibitive

[Hedgecutter]

There are more prostitutes than trees across the Orkney Isles.

Additionally, northern neighbour Shetland has the highest prostitutes per head of population of any region / city in the UK, largely attributed to the high number of offshore workers who pass through.

[Newbornbairn]

In the 2004 Presidential elections, a gay penguin polled more votes in 5 San Francisco polling districts than either the Republicans or the Democrats.