Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
The word “curry” comes from the Tamil word “kari” which was a soup-like spiced sauce
IN 1954 PLAYTEX BECAME THE FIRST COMPANY TO ADVERTISE A BRA AND GIRDLE ON TV.
◆ Rod Stewart likes to set up model railways backstage at concerts.
◆ SAINT LUCIA IS THE ONLY COUNTRY NAMED AFTER A WOMAN – SAINT LUCY. Romaine lettuce was the first food grown in space ◆ If the New York subway system was laid out in a straight line it would reach Chicago, 660 miles away.
◆ THE CURRENCY OF PANAMA IS THE BALBOA.
◆ The average UK household spends £56.80 a week on food and non-alcoholic drinks.
◆ OMMATOPHOBIA IS THE FEAR OF EYES. ◆ There are 30 million moles in Britain.
◆ RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT COMMITTING ACTS OF KINDNESS LOWERS THE BLOOD PRESSURE.
◆ 26% of adults say they use their phones to message people in the same room with them. ◆ THE RETURN OF NYLON STOCKINGS AFTER WARTIME RATIONING LED TO THE “NYLON RIOTS” OF 1945, WHEN 40,000 PITTSBURGH WOMEN FORMED A QUEUE MORE THAN A MILE LONG IN AN ATTEMPT TO SNAP UP 13,000 PAIRS. The famous cows of Milton Keynes were made from scrap metal by Liz Leyh in 1978 ◆ THE WORLD’S LARGEST OMELETTE WEIGHED 14,225LB 6OZ AND WAS MADE FROM 145,000 EGGS.
◆ There are four major bones in your knee: the femur,
tibia, fibula and patella.
◆ BOBOWLER IS A WEST MIDLANDS WORD FOR A LARGE MOTH. ◆ The ingredients for the Queen’s wedding cake were a present from the Girl Guides of Australia. ◆ AN EGG FROM THE EXTINCT ELEPHANT BIRD SOLD FOR £66,675 AT AUCTION IN 2013.
◆ Britain’s first KFC opened in Preston, in 1965.
◆ GEORGE ORWELL’S 1984 WAS ORIGINALLY GOING TO BE CALLED THE LAST MAN IN EUROPE.
◆ Hecate was the Greek goddess of witchcraft. The ama are traditional Japanese fisherwomen who dive up to 25 metres without oxygen to collect seafood from the ocean floor, despite most of them being over 70-years-old.
◆ A FEMALE MULE IS CALLED A MOLLY, AND A MALE IS CALLED A JOHN.