Fancy That!

Facts to make you u go“WOW!”

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In Fargo, North Dakota, itt is illegal to dance whille wearing a hat.

◆ JAMES BOND HAS REACHED FOR A BOTTLE OF BOLLINGE ER IN EVERY BOND

FILM SINCE MOONRAKER IN 1979.

◆ 53,000 fans turned up for a football match between Dick Kerr’s Ladies and St Helen’s Ladies at Goodison Park, Liverpool, in 1920.

◆ JESSE JAMES WAS BORN THIS MONTH IN 1847.

◆ In 18th and 19th century England, when divorce was almost impossible, a marriage could be ended by the husband publicly selling his wife in the marketplace – usually for a nominal sum to her existing lover.

◆ IT WOULD TAKE 398,110 MOONS MO TO GIVE OFF THE SAME AM MOUNT OF LIGHT AS THE SUN.

◆ There are more songs with September in the title than any other month.

◆ DIEUDONNE COSTE AND MAURICE BELLONTE MADE THE FIRST NON-STOP FLIGHT FROM EUROPE TO THE USA THIS MONTH IN 1930.

◆ Snails move at a speed of between 0.5 and 0.8 inches per second – or around 50 yards per hour.

◆ A “bunny hug” is a Saskatchewan term for a hoodie.

◆ FRENCH MAGICIAN LOUIS COMTE WAS

FIRST TO PULL A RABBIT FROM A TOP HAT, IN 1814.

◆ SOPHIE BLANCHARD WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO PILOT A HOT AIR BALLOON, IN 1805.

◆ The theory of propinquity is the idea that people like to be around others.

◆ THE WORD “FORTY” IS THE ONLY NUMBER THAT HAS ALL ITS LETTERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.

◆ SEPTEMBER TAKES ITS NAME FROM THE ROMAN WORD SEPTEM, WHICH MEANS SEVEN, BECAUSE IT USED TO BE THE SEVENTH MONTH.

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The average trumpet contains six and a half feet of tubing.

◆ A KNOT EQUALS ONE NAUTICAL MILE PER HOUR.

◆ The piano was invented in 1709 by an Italian harpsichord maker Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori.

◆ BOWHEAD WHALES HAVE LIVED TO 211 YEARS OF AGE, MAKING THEM THEE OLDEST MAMMALS MAMMALS.

Brad Pitt is a distant cousin of the Queen ARubik’s Cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations Hayley Turner was the first female jockey to ride 100 UK flat race winners during a calendar year An aardvark’s tongue is 12 inches long