Fancy That!

Facts to make you go“WOW!”

IN 1913-14, IT

WAS LEGAL TO

MAIL CHILDREN ACROSS AMERICA BY PARCEL POST FOR AS LITTLE AS 50C, WITH STAMPS ATTACHED TO THEIR CLOTHES.

◆ A brand called Redheads is Australia’s best-selling box of matches.

◆ LOUIS VUITTON OPENED HIS FIRST LUGGAGE STORE IN PARIS IN 1854 AT THE AGE OF 43.

◆ 56% of the UK is farmland.

◆ TWITTER WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED TWTTR, BECAUSE TWITTER. COM WAS ALREADY OWNED BY SOMEBODY ELSE.

◆ SAND

WASPS FLY BACKWARDS OUT OF THE NEST TO HELP THEM REMEMBER THE WAY BACK IN.

One of the Queen’s titles is Duke of Lancaster

◆ Siobhan is another form of the name Joan.

◆ THE IDEA OF WALKING 10,000 STEPS A DAY WAS DREAMED UP IN THE ADVERTISING FOR A JAPANESE PEDOMETER IN THE 1960S.

◆ Ray Tomlinson sent the world’s first email in 1971.

◆ The British census began in 1801.

◆ IRELAND WAS THE FIRST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD TO BAN SMOKING IN THE WORKPLACE, IN 2004.

◆ Rudolf Valentino’s full name was Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filbert Guglielmo di Valentina d’Antonguella.

◆ THERE IS A VALLEY IN DORSET CALLED SCRATCHY BOTTOM.

80,404 music cassettes were sold in the UK lastyear–the highestnumber in 15 years

◆ Lynn Rippelmeyer become the first woman to pilot a Boeing 747, in 1980.

Youwould have to eat1,400 calories-worth of nuts to get the same amountofprotein as youwould from 400 calories-worth of meat

All domestic chickens descended from the red junglefowl, which was domesticated 7,000

years ago.

In 1915, Maida Vale became the first Tube station staffed entirely by women

◆ THE TUXEDO DINNER JACKET WAS NAMED AFTER TUXEDO PARK NEAR NEW YORK.

◆ Australia is the only country that is also a continent.