Fancy That!

Facts to make yo ou go o“WOW!”

WOW! TUG-OF-WARR WAS AN OLYMPIC SPORT UNTIL 1920.

◆ A rainy wedding day y is said to be an omen for good luck.

◆ ELIZABETH BLACKWELL WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO OBTAIN A MEDICAL DEGREE, IN 1849.

◆ The registration n of births, marriages a and deaths began this month in 1937.

◆ THERE’S ENOUGH H WATER IN AN OLYMPIC-SIZE E SWIMMING POOL TO O TAKE 9,400 BATHS.

◆ Lachanophobia is the fear of vegetables. .

◆ Rick Swenson has set a recordd ffor paddlingddli 25 miles il in a boat made from a hollowed-out pumpkin.

◆ JOUSTING IS THE OFFICIAL SPORT OF MARYLAND.

◆ Humans have been practising dentistry since 7,000BC.

◆ FROME IS THE MOST MISPRONOUNCED PLACE NAME IN BRITAIN. IT RHYMES WITH “DOOM”.

◆ Fingerprints were first used for identification this month in the year 1901.

◆ Th he Centennial Light in Calif fornia is the world’s long gest-lasting light bulb. It’s beenb on almost cont inuously since 1901.

◆ EVE ELYN MCNICOL, MONICA JACKSO ON AND BETTY STARK F FORMED THE FIRST ALL-FEMALE MOUNTAINEERING EXPEDITION TO THE HIMALAYAS IN 1955.

◆ July’s full moon is called the Buck Moon.

◆ 96-YEAR-OLD HONG KONG DJ RAY CORDEIRO RETIRED THIS YEAR AFTER 72 YEARS ON AIR.

◆ Th The Maraya concert hall in Saud di Arabia is the larges st mirrored building in the e world, measuring 9,74 0 square meters.

◆ YOUR TONGUE IS COV VERED IN ABOUT 8,000 TASSTE-BUDS.

WOW! Donald Dettloff of Maui owns the world’s largest collection of surfboards - 647 of them.

◆ In 1948, Tony Signorini and Al Williams donned huge three-toed shoes to make tracks that convinced the people of Florida that a giant penguin was stalking the beach at night. It was 40 years before the pranksters were revealed.

◆ THE TONGUE-TWISTER SHESELLS SEASHELLSBYTHESEASHORE WAS INSPIRED BY FOSSIL HUNTER MARY ANNING.

10-year-old Lena Zavaroni was the youngest singer to release e an album in th he UK The largest-ever inflatable pool toy wasaswanthat stood 70 ft tall The Eiffel Tower grows about six inches in the heatt of the summer Lego’s Colosseum is the company’s biggestset, with 9,000 pieces