Fancy That!

Facts to make you go“WOW!”

◆ A CANDLE FLAME TYPICALLY BURNS AT AROUND 1,000 DEGREES CELSIUS, OR 1,800 FAHRENHEIT.

◆ Iron makes gold fireworks. The largest Catherine wheel was a record 105ft in diameter and turned four times under its own propulsion in Malta, in 2011 WOW! THE 30 BARRELS OF GUNPOWDER USED IN THE GUNPOWDER PLOT WOULD HAVE LEVELLED AN AREA A KILOMETRE WIDE.

◆ Surrey is the most expensive place to buy a pint of beer, with an average price in the county of £4.40 per pint. ◆ A Ramsey is the latest street slang for a knife.

◆ THE JAPANESE WORD FOR FIREWORK IS HANABI, WHICH MEANS “FIRE-FLOWER”.

◆ Calcium is used to make the colour of orange fireworks. A rocket can fly up to 150mph and go as high as 200 metres ◆ Ray Bradbury’s original title for his book Fahrenheit 451 was The Fireman – the new title was the temperature at which a book combusts

◆ FRICTION MATCHES WERE INVENTED WHEN JOHN WALKER TRIED TO SCRAPE A MIXTURE OF ANTIMONY SULPHIDE, POTASSIUM CHLORATE & SULPHUR OFF A STICK... AND IT CAUGHT FIRE. ◆ Guy Fawkes was born in Stonegate, York, on April 13, 1570. Parkin Cake is the traditional treat of bonfire night ◆ NOVEMBER IS THE ONLY MONTH USED TO REPRESENT A LETTER IN THE PHONETIC ALPHABET.

◆ Colonel Sander’s first name was Harland. The legal net explosive content of a UK firework available to the public is 2 Kgs ◆ The highest firework display was launched from the top of the world’s tallest building, the 2,716ft-tall Burj Khalifa in Dubai, on New Year’s Eve, 2015.

WOW! TRIUMPH INTERNATIONAL CREATED A BRA TO MARK THE 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOZART’S DEATH. IT PLAYS 20 SECONDS OF HIS MUSIC EVERY TIME IT’S FASTENED AND HAS LIGHTS THAT FLASH ON AND OFF TO THE BEAT.