No. 253.

The collective noun for a group of apes is 'a shrewness' or 'a troop'.

(Source: Yahoo answers.)

No. 252.

Each of Nina Conti's Monkey puppets last about a year. She has to bid for replacements online because they are from a discontinued line of toys, and her fans are buying them in order to have one like her.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 223.

Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981, it is illegal in Britain to use a machine gun to kill a hedgehog.

(Source: Qikipedia Twitter feed.)

No. 207.

Zach Braff's pet fish is called Cornelius Goodyear.

(Source: Twitter.)

No. 202.

Gromit, of Wallace and Gromit fame, was designed to be a talking cat. Nick Park changed him to a mute dog when it became apparent that this would be easier to animate.

(Source: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-07-10/nick-park---wallace-needed-an-assistant-so-i-drew-a-cat-called-gromit)

No. 197.

In 1931 Disney short, The Moose Hunt, Pluto is referred to by name for the first time. The cartoon is also notably for being the only time he speaks, or achieves flight by flapping his ears.
(Source: The Disney Studio Story by Richard Holliss and Brian Sibley.)

No. 176.

Sharks will die if they stop moving. They need to keep air going through their gills.

(Source: Brother, who was reading The Blind Watchmaker, told me. Verified by Yahoo.)

No. 175.

Ross Noble convinced his audience to all phone into the local radio station to report sightings of an alligator in Manchester's Heaton Park. This "news" made the papers.

(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

No. 167.

Sarah Millican's kitten is named Chief Brody, after the character in the movie, Jaws.

(Source: Sarah Millican's Twitter feed.)

No. 159.

Kathy Burke has a dog called Shenanigans.

(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

No. 153.

In Minnesota's Mall of America, (the United States' biggest shopping centre) a couple were married
in a shark tank. The bride and groom were in full wedding wear, albeit with the addition of scuba tanks.

(Source: The Mighty Mississippi with Sir Trevor McDonald.)

No. 141.

Goats with horns are known as 'buttheads'.

(Source: The Unbelievable Truth.)

No. 104.

50% of koalas currently have Chlamydia.

(Source: QIkipedia Twitter feed. Verified by http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-09/aids-virus-decimating-koala-population.)

No. 103.

Graham Norton adopted a rescue dog that the shelter had named Madonna. He simply calls her Madge.

(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

No. 92.

Jo Brand once bet on a horse called 'J Brand'. It didn't get far before falling over.

(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

No. 90.

One of Hugh Grant's friends, when they were an adolescent, made a pubic wig out the hair from a stuffed armadillo.

(Source: The Graham Norton Show.)

No. 88.

At no point during Return of the Jedi does anyone refer to the small teddy bear-esque creatures as 'ewoks'. They are only identified as such in the end credits.

(Source: Cracked.com. Verified by various sources.)

No. 74.

Ducks only lay eggs in the morning.

(Source: BBC Radio 2 Factoids Twitter feed.)

No. 71.

Minnie Driver once considered getting a tattoo of a tiger scratching her bottom.

(Source: Graham Norton Show.)

No. 68.

Rather appropriately, Pumba's, the warthog from The Lion King, name is Swahili for 'silly'.

(Source: QIkipedia Twitter feed.)