Fancy That!

Facts to make you go“WOW!”

TREES IN JUST ONE ACRE OF FOREST CAN SHED AS MUCH AS TWO TONS OF LEAVES IN AUTUMN.

◆ September is the ninth month and the word September has nine letters.

◆ WHEN DOES AUTUMN BEGIN? BY THE AUTUMN EQUINOX, IT’S SEPT 22/23, BUT IF YOU’RE INTERESTED IN CLIMATE DATA, METEOROLOGICAL AUTUMN BEGINS ON SEPT 1. ◆ Scots whisky is one of the UK’s top five exports, along with cars, computers, aircraft, and oil. ◆ The Five Celtic Nations consist of those whose Gaelic languages survived into the modern age: Scotland, Wales, Breton, Cornwall and Ireland.

◆ IT WASN’T UNTIL 1919 THAT WOMEN WERE GIVEN THE VOTE – AND EVEN THEN, ONLY TO THOSE OVER 30. IN 1928 THE VOTE WAS GIVEN TO EVERYONE OVER 21. AMAZINGLY VOTING AT 18 ONLY

BECAME LAW IN 1969! ◆ JAMES BOND’S 007 WAS INSPIRED BY IAN FLEMING’S BUS ROUTE FROM CANTERBURY TO LONDON.

◆ In the UK September is the most common birthday for people born in the last 20 years.

◆ SEPTEMBER IS THE WORST MONTH FOR SHARES PRICES – ON AVERAGE THEY LOSE 1% OF THEIR VALUE. ◆ A 2013 study found that the smell of chocolate in a bookstore made customers 22% more likely to buy books of any genre and a whopping 40% more likely to buy cookbooks or romance novels. ◆ Queen Elizabeth II feeds her corgis with fillet of beef from a silver platter with a silver fork. A royal “pooper scooper” takes care of the other end and gets paid to do to his duties fulltime!

In flower language, a pink carnation means “I will never forget you”