Fancy That!

Facts to make you go“WOW!”

◆ In 1920s Philadelphia, it was illegal to wear a skirt with a hemline higher than seven and a half inches above the ground – and in Ohio it was forbidden for a woman to show more than two inches of neck.

YOU CAN GET CAMEMBERT FLAVOURED KIT KATS IN JAPAN.

◆ St Piran is the patron saint of Cornwall. ◆ ATOMS ARE 99.9999999999999 PER CENT EMPTY SPACE - AND SINCE WE’RE MADE OF ATOMS, SO ARE WE.

◆ A Künstlerroman is a novel about an artist growing up. ◆ JACOPO PERI WROTE THE WORLD’S FIRST OPERA, DAFNE, IN 1597.

◆ Rugby football takes its name from Rugby School, in Warwickshire, where the game originated. ◆ Pie cases were originally called coffins, leading to the 16th century expression, “If it tastes good, it tastes better in a coffin”!

◆ FORTY IS THE ONLY NUMBER NAME WITH ALL THE LETTERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER – AND “ONE” IS THE ONLY ONE WITH THE LETTERS IN REVERSE ORDER.

Andre Ortolf holds the record for popping 78 party poppers in aminute

The opposite sides of advice always add up to seven

◆ THE MOTTO OF LOWE ER SAXONY IS IMMER EINE E GUTE IDEE – “ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA”. I

◆ More than 600,000 0 asteroids have been identified in the solar system. ◆ Of all shapes with the same length perimeter, a circle has the largest area.

◆ THE FIRST HOUSE IN THE WORLD TO HAVE ITS ELECTRICITY SUPPLIED BY WIND POWER WAS IN KINCARDINESHIRE, SCOTLAND, IN 1887.

◆ Southern Australia changes its clocks for Daylight Saving Time, but northern Australia doesn’t.

◆ THE WIND-UP RADIO WAS INVENTED BY TREVOR BAYLIS, WHO COMPLETED A WORKING PROTOTYPE HALF AN HOUR AFTER HAVING THE IDEA. A chef’s hat is called a “toque” and traditionally has 100 pleats representing the number of ways an egg can be prepared.

◆ MARQUIS D’ARLANDES AND PILATRE DE ROZIER WERE THE FIRST PEOPLE TO FLY IN A HOT-AIR BALLOON, IN 1783.