Fancy That!
Facts to make you go“WOW!”
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
THE EARTH.