Fancy That!

Facts to make you go“WOW!”

◆ A study found that patients who can see trees from their sick bed recover faster.

◆ THERE ARE ABOUT 500 ACTIVE VOLCANOES IN CHILE.

◆ The French refer to a kiss as “baiser”.

The collective noun for ferrets is a business

◆ JACK NICHOLSON WAS BROUGHT UP BELIEVING THAT HIS GRANDMOTHER WAS HIS MOTHER, AND THAT HIS MOTHER WAS HIS OLDER SISTER. HE ONLY LEARNED THE TRUTH IN HIS LATE 30S.

◆ Basil Fawlty was based on real life hotelier Donald Sinclair, who ran a hotel called Gleneagles, in Torquay.

WOW! UNDER A NEVER REPEALED LAW DATING FROM 1313, IT IS ILLEGAL FOR AN MP TO WEAR A SUIT OF ARMOUR IN THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

◆ IN JAPAN, YOUR THUMB IS KNOWN AS YOUR PARENT FINGER.

◆ The first barcode was designed by Joseph Norman Woodland, who drew it in the sand on a Florida beach.

◆ According to old English folklore, keeping an acorn in your pocket will preserve a youthful complexion.

◆ The Iguazu Falls, on the border of Argentina a and Brazil, is the largest system of waterfalls in the w world.

WOW! THE WORDD “ROBOT” WOW! COMES FRROM THE CZECH WORD ROBOTA, WHICH MEANS “FORCED LABOUR”.

◆ A traditional porridge stirrer is called a spurtle, and the Golden Spurtle is the trophy in the Annual World Porridge Making Championships.

Alligators reeplacetheir teethwhen they fal lout or wear down, and eacchcreaturecan get through 2,,000 teeth in its lifetime

Fish fingers arecalled fish sticks in America

◆ IN 1934, THERE WERE PLANS TO BUILD AN AIRPORT THAT STRADDLED THE THAMES NEXT TO THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

◆ Last year saw 92-yearold Tony Bennett become the oldest singer to top the American album chart.

London’s only lighthouse was built in 1864 and stands in Trinity Buoy Wharf, where the River Lee joins the Thames

◆ MUHAMMAD RASHID HOLDS THE WORLD RECORD FOR CRUSHING THE MOST WATERMELONS WITH HIS HEAD, SMASHING 49 OF THEM IN 30 SECONDS.