Funky Mango's Musings

1. Traffic wardens won't give you a parking ticket because they feel sorry for you.

2. No one expects you to be clever.

3. If you don't want to visit someone, you can just say, "Sorry, I can't get any transport".

4. Doctors are struck dumb when faced with your very different body to examine.

5. You can wear funny clothes and people will still tell you that you look nice.

6. Using your wheelchair, you can deliberately run over people you don't like - and they'll feel obliged to apologise to you!

7. Social workers will eventually give up on you because, after all, you are a lost cause.

8. You can spill your food in a restaurant and everyone will ignore it because they expect it of you.

9. You don't have to get the drinks in when at the pub, since no one expects you to be rich.

10. You can have sex any time you like because no one thinks you can do it anyway!

By Rosie Ballard, from BBC Ouch

1. Twenty-three wedding cakes were made for the nuptials of Charles and Diana.

2. That third brake light, the one in the rear window, is called a chimsil.

3. Aircraft oxygen systems have just about 12 minutes worth of reserves.

4. And when deployed, the oxygen flow can be so light that passengers can be confused into thinking something is wrong, and pulling oxygen masks from the ceiling.

5. Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can be even more painful.

6. Most people have an above average number of feet.

7. Shetland is the fattest part of the UK.

8. There are more than 150 books with the "...before you die" premise in their titles.

9. Life really does imitate art.

10. Almost a third of BT payphones have been removed in the past six years. (Artwork by Banksy)

From the BBC

1. Misheard song lyrics are known as mondegreens.

2. The Banana Splits theme tune is very similar to reggae classic Buffalo Soldier.

3. Clouds can be breast-shaped.

4. And thunderclouds are so menacingly dark because they are four to five miles (6.4 to 8km) thick.

5. A 72oz steak is about the size of a large telephone directory. And since 1960, 8,000 people have managed to eat one - plus all the trimmings - in under an hour.

6. DNA from 3,000-year-old skeletons can be matched to living descendents.

7. Jerry Springer, the American talkshow host, was born in a London Tube station during World War II.

8. Some chemotherapy drugs are made from yew tree clippings.

9. The Queen no longer sends telegrams to those turning 100.

10. The rock hyrax - a modestly proportioned rodent - is the closest living relative to the elephant.

From the BBC