Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
WOW! CLIFF RICHARD, KEN DODD, SHIRLEY BASSEY AND NOEL COWARD ALL HAD SONGS BANNED BY THE BBC.
◆ RoboCop’s suit was designed by Rob Bottin – on a million dollar budget.
◆ THE NAME CONOR MEANS “LOVER OF HOUNDS”.
◆ The Scottish town of
Dull is twinned with Boring in Oregon.
◆ MARLBORO WAS ORIGINALLY MARKETED AS A WOMEN’S CIGARETTE, WITH A RED BAND TO HIDE LIPSTICK STAINS.
◆ 1 in 5 retail transactions are now conducted online.
◆ Teeline is a shorthand system favoured by journalists and developed by James Hill in 1968.
◆ A COLLY BIRD IS AN OLD NAME FOR A BLACKBIRD.
◆ There is a chemical compound called DuPhos.
◆ A banjolele has the body of a banjo and the neck of a ukulele.
◆ ASTRID KIRCHHERR INSPIRED THE BEATLES’ “MOP TOPS” AFTER INTRODUCING THE HAIRSTYLE TO HER BOYFRIEND STUART SUTCLIFFE, WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE BAND
AT THE TIME.
◆ LINDA, ALICE, ELAINE AND
SANDY ARE ON A LIST OF 50 BABY NAMES BANNED IN SAUDI ARABIA.
◆ BirthofaNation was the first movie shown in the White House, in 1915.
◆ An inmate escaped from a German prison in 2008 by climbing into a box in the mail room which was picked up by a courier.
◆ THE SURNAME ROSSI MEANS “REDHEAD”.
WOW! Stilton cheese can officially only be made in Leicestershire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire... and not the village of Stilton, which it’s named after, because that’s in Cambridgeshire!
◆ VINYL LPS ACCOUNT FOR ONE IN EIGHT ALBUM
SALES.
Tea is as good for your teeth as mouthwash in preventing cavities and killing bacteria