Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
WOW! VERA LYNN WAS THE FIRST BRITISH SINGER TO HAVE A NUMBER ONE HIT IN AMERICA WITH THE SONG AUFWIEDERSEHEN, SWEETHEART.
171 was PC Reg Hollis’ collar number in TheBill
◆ Opal is the birthstone of October.
◆ 110 YEAR-OLD JULIO CESAR MORA TAPIA AND 104-YEAROLD WALDRAMINA MACLOVIA QUINTEROS ARE THE WORLD’S OLDEST MARRIED COUPLE, AND HAVE BEEN WED 79 YEARS.
◆ The fourth Thursday in October is Punky Night, when children in southern England would traditionally carve their pumpkins – or “punkies” – into JackO’-Lanterns.
◆ Q IS THE
ONLY LETTER THAT DOESN’T APPEAR IN ANY AMERICAN STATE NAME.
◆ “I’ll have a Zoom, please…” Edd China drove the world’s fastest electric ice cream van to a recordbreaking 73.92mph this summer.
◆ MAL E PACIFIC
WALRUS SES CAN WEIGH MORE THANT 1.5 TONNES.
◆ No written number below a thousand contains the letter A.
◆ TheTaleofGenji, written by Murasaki Shikibu in the 11th century, is considered the world’s first novel. Sadly, the end is missing!
◆ MERCEDES ONCE DESIGNED A CAR WITH A JOYSTICK INSTEAD OF STEERING WHEEL AND FOOT PEDALS.
Winnie the Pooh wasfirstpublished this month in 1926
◆ ACCORDING TO ALBERT CAMUS, “AUTUMN IS A SECOND SPRING WHEN EVERY LEAF IS A FLOWER”.
◆ The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes and the Hawthornden Prize are Britain’s oldest literary awards, founded in 1919.
SAMSUNG TESTS WOW! THE STRENGTH OF ITS PHONES BY PUTTING THEM IN THE BACK POCKET OF A ROBOT THAT SITS ON THEM.
◆ Clothespin is American for clothes peg.
Dr Helen Sharman was Britain’s first woman in space, and the first to visit the t Mir Space Station
◆ BRITAIN’S FIRST STARBUCKS OPE ENED AT 123 KING’S ROAD, CHE ELSEA,, IN 1998.