Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
“ALMOST” IS THE LONGEST WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO HAVE ALL ITS LETTERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
◆ Thai internet users express laughter by writing 55555, because 5, in Thai, is pronounced “ha”.
◆ A SCALENE TRIANGLE HAS NO SIDES THE SAME LENGTH. ◆ A study found customers were almost six times more likely to buy a romance book if the bookshop smelled of chocolate. ◆ Psycho was the first American film to show a toilet flushing.
◆ DACHSHUND TRANSLATES FROM THE GERMAN FOR “BADGER DOG” BECAUSE THE SAUSAGE-SHAPED DOGS WERE BRED TO HUNT BADGERS IN NARROW TUNNELS. ◆ Lethologica is the inability to remember a particular word or name.
◆ A STUDY OF ANTS FOUND THAT 25% OF THEM MILL ABOUT DOING NO WORK AT ALL. ◆ A “LIGHTNING TREE” IS A FERN-LIKE PATTERN LEFT ON PEOPLE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
◆ Shakin’ Stevens used to be a milkman. ◆ TABLETTES DE CHOCOLAT – MEANING CHOCOLATE BARS – IS THE FRENCH EQUIVALENT OF A SIX-PACK TONED STOMACH.
◆ Daniel Craig’s New York home is above a tattoo parlour.
◆ THE MARZIPAN FROM THE GERMAN TOWN OF LUBECK IS MADE WITH 66% ALMONDS – THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE IN THE WORLD. ◆ QATAR IS THE ONLY COUNTRY THAT BEGINS WITH A Q.
◆ Billy the Kid’s real name was William Bonney.
RUSSIA HAS A LARGER LAND AREA THAN PLUTO, AT 6.6 MILLION SQUARE MILES.
◆ Firefighters had to free a rhino that got stuck through a tyre at Edinburgh Zoo last year. ◆ SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS WAS ORIGINALLY TO BE CALLED SPONGEBOY, BUT THE NAME WAS OWNED BY A MOP COMPANY.
◆ The world’s best-selling living author, Danielle Steel, has written 174 novels on a typewriter that she bought as a 19-year-old in 1966.