Fancy That!

Facts to make you go“WOW!”

WOW! 74.4 MILLION NOVELS WERE SOLD IN THE UK LAST YEAR.

◆ Toyota is named after founder Kiichiro Toyoda.

◆ YOU CAN REMEMBER THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN STATIONARY AND STATIONERY Y WITH THE PHRASE “E IS FOR ENVELOPE”.

In bingo, number 45 is called as “Halfway There” – there being 90 balls in a bingo game

◆ Scotland has around 790 offshore islands.

◆ EXPORTS OF BRITISH CHEESE TO CHINA GREW F FROM £67,000 TO £6.5 MILLION N BETWEEN 2013 AND 2018 8.

◆ Ken Hom’s holiday hhome is a medieval watchtowwer in the south of France.

Dog attackson postal workers rose by 9% in the pastyear

◆ 42,000 barrels of whiskey were destroyed by a lightning strike in Kentucky this summer. The emergency services chief said, “It’s the best-smelling

fire I’ve ever attended.”

◆ LIDO COMES FROM AN ITALIAN WORD FOR BEACH. ◆ THE ROYAL DRURY LANE THEATRE IS REPUTEDLY HAUNTED BY THE GHOST OF ACTOR CHARLES MACKLIN, WHO IS SAID TO BE A TALL, THIN AND UGLY SPECTRE WITH A BAD TEMPER TEMPER.

◆ ERBIL CITADEL, IRAQ, IS THE OLDES ST CONTINUOUSLY OCCUPIED HUMAN N SETTLEMENT IN THE E WORLD, DATING BAC CK AROUND 6,000 YEA ARS.

◆ The Internation al Ice Patrol was founded d to break up icebergs a after the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.

BBritain’siti largestbutterfly is the swallowtail, with awingspan of more than 3 ½ inches

◆ Leckford Estate in Hampshire is the only farm owned and managed by a British supermarket.

WOW! THE COUNTRIES WITH THE FASTEST TRAINS ARE CHINA (197.4MPH), ITALY (169.3MPH) AND FRANCE (166.2MPH). BRITAIN COMES IN 13TH PLACE AT 111.6MPH.

The Volga River is the longest river in Europe, stretching 2,190 miles through Russia to the Caspian Sea

◆ T THE BANK OF ENGLAND WAS S FOUNDED 325 YEARS AGO IN 16694.

◆ M Maths is the most com mmonly chosen subject amo ong A-level students.

◆ PRIYANKA CHOPRA JONNAS IS THE FIRST BOLLYWOOD ACTRRESS TO HAVE A WAXWORK IN MADDAME TUSSAUDS, LONDON.

◆ The Blackpool Tower is 125 years old this year, and is the same age as Tower Bridge.

◆ GERMANY’S BIRGIT PRINZ WAS THE FIRST FEMALE FOOTBALLER TO PLAY IN THREE WORLD CUP FINALS.