Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“go WOW!” WO
◆ SEPTEMBER IS THE LONGEST MONTH NAME IN THE CALENDAR AND THE ONLY ONE WITH THE SAME NUMBER OF LETTERS AS ITS NUMBER IN THE YEAR (9).
There are 7,039 WOW! edible plants in the world.
◆ GERMAN ASTRONOMER MARIA KIRCH WAS THE FIRST WOMAN TO DISCOVER A COMET.
◆ Portugal is the world’s biggest producer of cork.
◆ STEPHEN FRY WROTE AN EPISODE OF DOCTORWHO THAT WAS NEVER USED.
◆ THE NAME BAXTER MEANS FEMALE BAKER.
◆ In 1888, a British woman sold her husband for £20. She asked for £100 but £20 was all his new wife would pay!
◆ ST PAUL’S CHURCH IN COVENT GARDEN IS NICKNAMED THE ACTOR’S CHURCH.
◆ The D in D-Day doesn’t stand for anything. D-Day and H-Hour are simply military code for the planned time of an assault, with the preceding and following days and hours given as D-1 or H+2 etc.
◆ THE BRICK TRAIN IS A LIFE-SIZE BRICK SCULPTURE OF RECORD-BREAKING STEAM LOCOMOTIVE MALLARD, THAT STANDS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF DARLINGTON.
◆ WHEN A CEMEN NT TRUCK CRASHED NEAR WIN NGANON, OKLAHOMA IN 1959 9, THE MIXER WAS TOO HE EAVY TO MOVE, SO IT WAS LE EFT THERE AND LOCALS HAVE RE EPAINTED IT TO LOOK LIKE A NA ASA SPACE CAPSULE.
◆ The Panoram, launched in 1940, was the f first coin-operated jukebox kebo to show musical films, or “soundies”.
WOW! BEFORE THE POPULARITY OF CHAMPAGNE, BUBBLY WINE WAS DESPISED AND CALLED THE DEVIL’S WINE.
◆ A clerihew is a whimsical four-line biographical poem with the rhyme scheme AABB, invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
◆ THE PEACH PICKERS ARE A SONGWRITING TEAM COMPOSED OF RHETT AKINS, DALLAS DAVIDSON AND BEN HAYSLIP, WHO HAVE TOGETHER WRITTEN 60 NUMBER ONE COUNTRY SONGS.
◆ Eric Carle’s children’s book The Hungry Caterpillar was originally about a worm.
◆ Fedora hats were named after Princess Fedora Romanoff, a character in the play Fédora by Victorien Sardou.