Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
WOW!
OUT OF 2.5 BILLION TAKEAWAY COFFEE CUPS USED IN THE UK EACH YEAR, FEWER THAN 400 ARE RECYCLED.
◆ The world’s busiest McDonald’s is in Pushkin Square in Moscow.
◆ ANTS NEVER SLEEP.
◆ British motorists average 9,485 miles per car per year.
◆ TO GOOGLE BECAME A VERB IN THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY IN 2006.
◆ Cats can make ten times as many different sounds as dogs.
◆ A TWITCHELL IS AN ALLEY BETWEEN HOUSES.
◆ Freshmen at New York University are traditionally initiated by being dunked in a horse trough called the Fountain of Knowledge.
◆ WATER IS THE ONLY SUBSTANCE ON EARTH NATURALLY FOUND IN THREE FORMS: LIQUID, SOLID AND GAS. ◆ In Mandarin, “he” and “she” are written differently but both are pronounced “ta”.
◆ SUGAR WAS FIRST BROUGHT TO ENGLAND FROM THE CRUSADES IN 1099.
◆ A single hair can support a weight of 100 grams.
◆ CARROTS CONTAIN ZERO FAT.
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Between 10 million and a billion bacteria are exchanged in a single kiss – but kissing daily is still said to increase your lifespan by five years.
◆ 80 PER CENT OF THE WORLD’S BILLIARD BALLS ARE MADE IN BELGIUM. ◆ Louis Comte was the first magician to pull a rabbit from a top hat, in 1814.
◆ DOUGLAS RAIN WAS THE VOICE OF HAL, THE COMPUTER, IN 2001:ASPACEODYSSEY. ◆ A milliner makes women’s hats. A hatter makes men’s hats.
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SHARKS ARE THE ONLY FISH WITH EYELIDS.
◆ Neither the North or South Pole has an official time zone.
◆ IN CHINA, BLACK TEA IS CALLED RED TEA.
◆ Heliotropism describes the way sunflowers turn to follow the sun.