Fancy That!

Facts to make you go“WOW!”

WOW! Linus Urbanec of Sweden set a world record by eating 31 sprouts in a minute, one at a time using a cocktail stick.

◆ YESTERDAY BY THE BEATLES HAS BEEN COVERED BY MORE THAN 3,000 OTHER ARTISTS, MAKING IT THE MOST COVERED SONG IN HISTORY.

◆ THE TRIPLE NINE SOCIETY IS FOR PEOPLE WITH AN IQ SCORE THAT RANKS THEM MORE INTELLIGENT THAN 99.9% OF THE POPULATION.

◆ Onychomancy means telling fortunes by studying the fingernails.

◆ THE CONCRETE COWS OF MILTON KEYNES WERE CREATED BY CANADIAN ARTIST LIZ LEYH.

◆ Roy Orbison’s hobby was making and painting model aeroplanes.

◆ ALEKTOROPHOBIA IS THE FEAR OF CHICKENS.

◆ Sutherland is the coldest town in South Africa with average minimum temperatures of 2.8°C during winter.

◆ A traditional Mongolian musical instrument is the “morin khuur”, a twostringed cello made with one string of male horse hair and one female.

WOW! MOSQUITOES ARE ATTRACTED TO DARK COLOURED CLOTHES.

◆ Sushila Sundari, known as Sushila the Beautiful, was India’s first female tiger trainer, in the late 1800s.

◆ BIFOCALS WERE INVENTED BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

◆ American stargazers call the Plough the Big Dipper.

◆ THE NATIONAL MUSTARD MUSEUM IN WISCONSIN HOLDS A COLLECTION OF NEARLY 5,700 MUSTARDS FROM MORE THAN 70 COUNTRIES.

◆ Your hand has 27 bones.

◆ THE DWARF BLUE SHEEP IS FOUND ONLY IN TIBET.

◆ The surname Allen originally meant “little rock”.

◆ 38% of British women say they’ve never written a love letter, with 46% declaring the practice outdated.

◆ DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR, THE CENTRAL LINE OF THE LONDON UNDERGROUND WAS CONVERTED INTO A SECRET FIGHTER PLANE FACTORY THAT STRETCHED FOR OVER TWO MILES, WITH ITS OWN RAILWAY SYSTEM.

The Hundred Acre Wood in the Winnie the Pooh books is based on Ashdown Forest in Sussex

Giraffes make a sound too low for humans to hear

The largest bubblegum bubble ever blown was 20 inches in diameter

The offspring of a swan and a goose is called a “swoose”