Your lilbits

I am asking you for your chicken nuggets of wisdom. I'm currently trying to accrue as much random knowledge as I can - anything from the history of the Anglo-Saxon monarchies to how to roll up socks - in an effort to ensure that I don't make an arse of myself (well, not too big an arse anyway) when I represent Loughborough in this year's University Challenge competition. Last year, a number of people, among them my fellow tutors and researchers, as well as my students, helpfully sent me little bits of
wisdom - 'factoids' or 'lilbits' as I've so tweely and disgustingly decided to call them. This year, I am in need of more of the same - sports statistics ('Interesting reading,' as Mr Strickland said in Back to the Future Part II), the person who holds the record for the world's stickiest bogey, that sort of stuff. If you have anything like this, any fact you are proud to harbour in your massive and beautiful brain, please do send it on over to me for my perusal and due digestion. In the meantime, I'm off to acquaint myself with the more intimate parts of Oscar Wilde (his oeuvre, that is: I speak metonymically, mais oui).