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Thee gravestone of Bugs Bunnny’s voiceactor Mel Blanc is inscribed, “Thhat’s all folks”
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THERE WERE 177 MILLION CINEMA ADMISSIONS IN THE UK LAST YEAR – THE HIGHEST NUMBER SINCE 1970.
◆ Louisiana was named after King Louis XIV.
◆ RED BULL WAS INVENTED BY HANS VRIENS. ◆ The Event Horizon Telescope is powerful enough to read the lettering on a 10p piece from 3,500km away. ◆ Britain’s oldest ballet dancer, Barbara Peters, passed the grade seven exam with merit at the Royal Academy of Dance when she was 79.
◆ THE SURNAME CATCHPOLE COMES FROM THE JOB OF MEDIEVAL TAX COLLECTOR.
◆ 25% of your bones are in your feet. ◆ AN ESTIMATED 155 MILLION TONKA MIGHTY DUMP TRUCKS HAVE BEEN MMADE SINCE 1964.
◆ Beve erly Hills High School produc ces about 400 barrels of oil a day from its own well.
◆ AUTOOMATONOPHOBIA IS A FEAR OOF MANNEQUINS AND WAXWOORKS. ◆ Star Trek actors William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and George Takei all had early starring roles in TheTwilightZone.
◆ THERE’S NO ROMAN NUMERAL FOR ZERO.
◆ The Horseshoe Bar in Glasgow boasts the longest bar in Europe, at 104 feet and three inches. ◆ BRITONS SPENT £23.7 MILLION ON SLEEPING AAIDS LAST YEAR.
◆ In a room of just 23 people there’s a 50% chance that two people haveh the same birthday. ◆ THE AVERAGE PERSON DRINKS 12,000 GALLONS OF WATER BEFORE THE AGE OF 70.
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The official test for a tennis ball’s bounciness is to drop it from 100 inches and see if it bounces between 53 and 58 inches.
◆ THE WORLD’S BIGGEST SUIT OF ARMOUR WAS WORN BY AN ELEPHANT AND CONSISTS OF 5,840 PLATES WEIGHING A TOTAL OF 118 KILOGRAMS. ◆ RICHMOND PARK IS LONDON’S LARGEST ROYAL PARK AND COVERS 2,359.85 ACRES.
◆ Paris was originally a Roman City called Lutetia.Lutetia
◆ IN RUS SSIA, IT’S CONSIDER RED BAD LUCK K TO GIVE YELL OW FLOWERS T TO A LOVED ON NE.