A new trivia book, containing facts such as the one above, reveals hundred of amazing facts about celebrities, history, food and drink, music, sport and British heroes.

The book, The Great Book of British Useless Information by Hannah Warner is available from 15 October. One for the Christmas list maybe, Triviala fans?

Here’s a selection of our favourite trivia facts.

Here’s our selection of the best…

Simon Cowell refused to sign Take That because he thought Gary Barlow was too fat.

When Coronation Street characters pop in to the Rovers for a pint they are actually drinking weak shandy.

Who Wants to be a Millionaire? is insured by Lloyd’s of London against having to pay major cash prizes.

Men back in Tudor times believed rubbing horse urine into their scalp would stop them going bald.

Back in Anglo Saxon times a man could divorce his wife on the grounds that she was “too passionate”.

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Apparently a man with a hairy chest, like superstar Sir Tom Jones, is a better lover than one without, like footballer David Beckham. Hair on the chest is supposed to be a sign that a man has more of the male hormone testosterone.

Jk Rowling makes £5 every second. Each new Harry Potter book is always released on a Saturday to stop children bunking off school to read them.

Former prime minister Tony Blair ran away from school – and one of his housemasters described him as “the most difficult boy I have ever had to deal with”.