Did you know?
...a sneeze can travel up to 30ft
...a tube carriage is 57ft long
...Mike Newell scored the fastest hat trick in the European cup(only the second hat trick)
...and Marco van Basten scored the first one( and the second one!)
...the single "Free" was removed from the shops as people kept walking off with it
...the standard European railway gauge is 54.64inches wide
...all the continents begin and end with the same letter
...at the end of the Beatles Sergeant Pepper album there is a sound so high pitched that only dogs can hear it
...russians thought that Mammoths were large burrowing rodents that died on exposure to light
...the Zambezian River shark is the only shark that swims upside down
...Elvis' middle name was Aaron
...Belfast has the highest concentration of churches per sq. mile in the world
...DJ Quicksilver is Turkish
...the average human being swallows 8 spiders in their sleep during their lifetime
...at one time the M2 in Belfast was the widest motorway in Europe
...on average 3 million people walk the Appalachian way each year
...there is enough iron in the human body to make a 5" nail
...John Aldridge was the first person to miss a penalty in an FA cup final
...the single "Dive in" by Catch failed to chart this week
...The sun is a theoretical impossibility (it's surface is cooler that it's atmosphere and it's centre)
...Cairnshill is a suburb of Belfast
...the zoological name for a Gorilla is ; gorilla gorilla
...in "Pizza Express" it costs �6.25 for an "American hot" pizza;roughly a full pound more expensive than getting a margherita and the two extra toppings...
...co-incidentally enough, for the same amount you could travel from Oxford to R.Leamington Spa by train on a weekday
...there is a London Docklands Railway station called "All Saints"
...the earth is spinning in ever-decreasing circles towards the sun
...and also that the years are getting longer
...the dodo was approximately 18" long
...Radiohead have never had a No.1 single in the U.K
...The Spice Girls have never not had a single go to No.1 in the U.K
...Red Rum is murder backwards
...you cannot pronounce "ph" without sounding stupid
...University College has the longest "Grace" of any oxbridge college
...the Thai alphabet has 42 consonants and 24 vowels
..."namaste" is the word for "hello" in Marathi, Hindi, Gujurati and Punjabi
...it costs �4 for an adult to enter St Paul's cathedral
...everyone in Scotland is called Euan
...the Regent hotel in Royal Leamington Spa has 100 bedrooms and one bathroom
...Hong Kong won as many gold medals as Great Britain at the last Olympic games ('96)
...(one)
...76.8% of all statistics are made up on the spot
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