Fancy That!

Facts to make you go“WOW!”

IT TAKES 700 GALLONS OF WATER TO MAKE A COTTON SHIRT.

◆ The earliest written mention of black pudding is in Homer’s Odyssey in 800BC.

◆ 7,161 PEOPLE IN THE UK STILL WATCH TELEVISION IN BLACK AND WHITE. ◆ ONLY 7% OF THE UK IS BUILT ON, WHILE 42% IS DEVOTED TO FARMLAND.

◆ Denier refers to the weight in grams of 9,000 meters of a given type of filament. ◆ Jarfing means tying the sleeves of a pullover around your neck in a mix of jumper and scarf.

◆ THE AVERAGE HOUSEWIFE WOULD HAVE BAKED 1,500 LOAVES DURING WORLD WAR I.

◆ Grand eagle, double elephant, princess and emperor are all traditional paper sizes. ◆ SNOW BUNTINGS BREED FURTHER NORTH THAN ANY OTHER LAND BIRD.

◆ Commercial airliners can still fly with only one engine.

◆ THE SWISS MUSEUM & CENTRE FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC INSTRUMENTS HOUSES THE WORLD’S LARGEST COLLECTION OF SYNTHESISERS, WITH MORE THAN 1,000 INSTRUMENTS. ◆ Sally Ride became the first American woman in space, in 1983.

◆ DH LAWRENCE’S INITIALS STOOD FOR DAVID HERBERT. ◆ 78% of 7 to 11-year-olds have grown their own fruit or vegetables.

◆ IN 1895, LILIAN LINDSAY BECAME BRITAIN’S FIRST QUALIFIED DENTIST. ◆ The space between the diamonds on an eight of diamonds playing card, forms a white 8 on a red background.

◆ Psychologists have found that people feel happier when holding chopsticks between their teeth.

◆ JANICE LONG WAS THE FIRST FEMALE PRESENTER OF TOP OF THE POPS. ◆ Uruguay was the first country to win the World Cup.

◆ THERE ARE FOUR PEOPLE FOR EVERY SQUARE KILOMETRE OF LAND IN CANADA.

◆ The world’s largest inflatable beach ball is 65ft 6in in diameter.

Aherdofwild boars is called asounder

Dorothy’s ruby red slippers from TheWizardofOz sold at auction for $660,000 in 2000

The Swiss make 180,000 tonnes of chocolate everyyear

Tony the Tiger first boasted how “Grrr-r-eat” Frosted Flakes were in 1951