Fancy That!

Facts to make you go“WOW!”

◆ ICELAND HAS A POPULATION OF JUST 332,529 PEOPLE.

◆ There is a sleepy estate in Hampshire called the Land of Nod.

A pluviophile loves rain

◆ ARISTOTLE DEFINED THREE TYPES OF PERFECTION: BEING COMPLETE; ATTAINING PURPOSE; OR BEING SO GOOD THAT NOTHING CAN BE BETTER.

◆ Mare Nostrum, meaning “Our Sea”, was the Roman name for the Mediterranean.

WOW!

◆ American women have the world’s biggest average breast size, followed by the Canadians, Irish, Polish and the British.

◆ 81-YEAR-OLD LABOUR MP PAUL FLYNN THIS YEAR BECAME THE OLDEST FRONTBENCHER IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS SINCE VICTORIAN PRIME MINISTER WILLIAM GLADSTONE.

WOW!

◆ BERMUDA HAS MORE GOLF COURSES PER PERSON THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY.

◆ The Bakerloo Line was so named because it ran from Baker Street to Waterloo.

◆ THE BIKINI WAS DESIGNED BY LOUIS REARD 70 YEARS AGO THIS YEAR.

◆ Karl is the Germanic form of Charles.

◆ TURKISH DELIGHT IS CALLED IOKMA OR IOKUM IN TURKEY, WHICH MEANS “MORSEL” OR “MOUTHFUL”.

◆ The word “asteroid” means star-shaped andwas coined by William Herschel in 1802.

◆ THE VESICA PISCIS IS THE SHAPE OF TWO OVERLAID CIRCLES.

◆ The Brown Recluse spider is also known as the violin spider, because of a marking that looks like a violin.

◆ THE ISLE OF MAN’S GOVERNMENT, THE TYNWALD, WAS FOUNDED BY THE VIKINGS 1,000 YEARS AGO.

◆ Old records outsold newreleases last year, with 123 million back catalogue albums sold, compared to 119 million copies of new albums.

◆ AN ARNOLD PALMER IS A MIX OF ICED TEA AND LEMONADE NAMED AFTER THE LATE, GREAT GOLFER.

◆ The word pineapple was used to describe pine cones before pineapples were discovered.

a female camel is called a cow and the male a bull

The person in charge of the ravens in the Tower of London is called the Ravenmaster

Bruce Springsteen, Ray Charles, Ben E King and Jerry Lee Lewis were all born in September