Fancy That!

Facts to make you go “WOW!”

◆ The longest-ever title of a hit song was the 41-word Medley: Intro' Venus'/ Sugar Sugar/No Reply/I'll Be Back/Drive My Car/Do You Want to Know a Secret/We Can Work It Out/I Should Have Known Better /Nowhere Man/You're Going to Lose That Girl/Starson 45. It was more commonly shortened to Starson 45 Medley.

◆ ELVIS PRESLEY’S HIT INTHE GHETTO WAS ORIGINALLY TITLED THE VICIOUS CIRCLE.

◆ Antarctica was first sighted in 1820 by a Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev.

◆ A DAY ON MARS IS 24 HOURS AND 37 MINUTES LONG, BUT THE MARTIAN YEAR IS ABOUT 1.88 EARTH YEARS (ALMOST 687 DAYS).

◆ Angela and Maria Eagle are the first twins to sit in Parliament together since James and Richard Grenville in 1774.

◆ GUN BARREL CITY IS A REAL TOWN IN TEXAS.

◆ A squircle is a square with rounded corners.

◆ The Daily Planet scenes in Superman IV were filmed in the canteen of the Home Retail Group in Milton Keynes.

◆ SNAGS IS AN AUSTRALIAN TERM FOR SAUSAGES.

◆ NIKE WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED BLUE RIBBON SPORTS.

◆ The mermaid-like Starbucks logo is said to be based on a 16th-century Norse wood cut.

◆ THE NAME “JONATHAN” COMES FROM THE HEBREW MEANING “GOD’S GIFT”.

◆ A limnophile loves lakes.

◆ ACCORDING TO GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, “THE PERFECT LOVE AFFAIR IS ONE THAT IS CONDUCTED ENTIRELY BY POST.”

◆ Ray and Edith Batman sued the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in a 1951 legal case known as Batman v. Commissioner.