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Facts to make you go“WOW!”

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WOW! SHAKIN’ STEVENS WAS THE FIRST ARTIST TO MAKE 50 APPEARANCE­S ON TOP OFTHEPOPS.

◆ The first Milky Way bars were 4 inches long by 2 inches wide,i and weighed twice as much as a modern one.

◆ THE FOUR-STOREY TALL DAEMONIUM ISS THEE WORLD’S O DS LARGEST TRAVEL LING GHOST TRAIN.

◆ You blink aabout 20 times a minute, or mmore than 10 million timmes a year.

◆ SWIMMERS S LOSE AS MUCH SWEAT I N THE POOL AS A SPRI NTER DOES ON LAND. .

◆ St Cecilia is s the patron saint of musicians.

◆ 70-YEAR-OLD GARY MICHAEL DUSCHL HAS TAKEN 55 YEARS TO MAKE THE WORLD’S LONGEST CHAIN OF BUBBLE GUM WRAPPERS. IT’S 0 06,810FT LONG.

◆ Cat Dixon and Raz Marsden hold the record for travelling around the world on a tandem, in 263 days and 8 hours, averaging

10000 milese a day. day

◆ NORTH KOREA HAS ITS OWN SELF-CONTAINED INTERNET CALLED THE KWANGMYONG, OR BRIGHT LIGHT.

◆ Marc Bolan’s real name was Mark Feld.

◆ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WAS NICKNAMED “THE FIRST AMERICAN NEWSBOY” BECAUSE HE HELPED DELIVER HIS BROTHER’S NEW ENGLAND COURANT IN 1721.

◆ The Blue Riband is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean with the record highest speed in regular service.

◆ ACCORDING TO WEATHER LORE E, A HEAVY NOVEMBER SNO OW WILL LAST UNTIL APRIL.

◆ Nelson’s statue took up its place atop his column in TTrafalgar Square this month in 1843.

◆ THE IRISH NAME FINN MEANS “SMALL BLOND SOLDIER”.

◆ YOUR NOSTRILS WORK ONE AT A TIME, SWITCHING SIDES EVERY FEW HOURS.

WOW! Tree shrews and humans are the only animals that like spicy food.

◆ Smallpox is the only infectious disease that has ever been successful­ly eradicated.

◆ BEES ORIGINATED BETWEEN 120 AND 150 MILLION YEARS AGO, WHEN DINOSAURS RULED

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Snakes can sense an earthquake­iscoming five days beforeitha­ppens
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Only 1.2% of the earth’s freshwater is in rivers and lakes. The rest is lo ocked up in glaciers or in the ground
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New York’s Chrysler Building is the tallest brick building in the world, at 1,046ft
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