Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
WOW! YOU CAN BE FINED UP TO £1000 FOR HAVING A CAR NUMBER PLATE THAT’S TOO DIRTY TO BE READ.
◆ “Dumb phones” that can only make calls or send texts are the latest fad for people trying to break an addiction to social media on their smart phones.
◆ A DOL IS A UNIT IN THE MEASUREMENT OF PAIN.
◆ 50-year-old Daniel Craig is the first Bond star to be born after the film franchise began. At 5ft 10in, he’s also the shortest.
◆ St Lucy is the patron saint of lawyers, writers and seamstresses.
◆ HUMANS HAVE BEEN REARING CHICKENS FOR AT LEAST 8,000 YEARS.
◆ “Scouse”, for Liverpudlian, comes from “lobscouse”, a sailor’s dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship’s biscuit.
◆ CHARLIE IN CHARLIE’S ANGELS WAS VOICED BY JOHN FORSYTHE, WHO PLAYED BLAKE CARRINGTON IN DYNASTY, BUT THE CHARACTER WAS NEVER SEEN IN THE SHOW.
◆ 63% of men believe they don’t read enough.
◆ THE BRIT AWARDS ARE SO-CALLED BECAUSE THEY WERE ORIGINALLY SPONSORED BY BRITANNIA MUSIC CLUB.
◆ BLONDIE’S HIT THE TIDE IS HIGH WAS WRITTEN BY REGGAE SINGER JOHN HOLT AND ORIGINALLY RECORDED BY HIS GROUP THE PARAGONS, IN 1966.
◆ Brantford, Ontario, is known as Telephone City because Alexander Graham Bell lived there while inventing the phone.
◆ ROMANIAN WEDDING TRADITIONS INCLUDE A RITUAL KIDNAPPING OF THE BRIDE.
◆ Winston Churchill’s hobby was bricklaying. He built several walls at his house at Chartwell.
◆ “CONCRETE POETRY” IS WRITTEN SO THAT THE LINES FORM A SHAPE THAT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE POEM.
◆ The term “suffragette” was coined by the Daily Mail in 1906. ◆ TO DUMPLE MEANS TO BEND INTO A DUMPY SHAPE.
WOW! Wallis Simpson’s jewellery collection fetched £50 million at auction – a record sum, at the time of her death, for a single-owner collection.
◆ THE THEME TUNE TO THE ARCHERS IS A MAYPOLE DANCE CALLED BARWICK GREEN AND WAS COMPOSED BY ARTHUR WOOD.
Britain drank athird of the world’s prosecco lastyear
The June full Moon is known asthe Strawberry Moon because it’s the month strawberries ripen