About Me
  Home Page | My Fascinating Facts | The Gallery | Guestbook Page | Contact Me | Best of the web | Wicked Games | TV's the best | My Favourite Things | Wotcha Wanna Do  

Fascinating Facts

THERE IS NO WORD IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE FOR "PANTHER".
 
SPOONS WERE INVENTED BY CHRIS METCALF OF KETTERING, (IN ENGLAND), WHO, BY COINCIDENCE, INVENTED THE WORLD'S FIRST ARTIFICIAL CRISP FLAVOURING (GUAVA).
 
ROLF HARRIS' BEARD IS MADE ENTIRELY OF LEATHER.
 
THE FIRST ADVERT ON COMMERCIAL TELEVISION IN ALASKA WAS FOR BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING.
 
ONLY 33 MEN HAVE EVER BEEN TO JUPITER. THEY INCLUDE EX "BLUE PETER" PRESENTER, TIM VINCENT, AND "BUBBLE" FROM "BIG BROTHER 4".
 
BANK MANAGERS ARE BASTARDS.
 
MEERKATS ORIGINALLY HAD 12 LEGS, BUT WERE REDESIGNED TO MAKE THEM CUTER FOR NATURE PROGRAMMES ON TELLY.
 
THE WORD "BLOOD" COMES FROM THE LATVIAN WORD "BLOODAAGODAY", MEANING
BLOOD.
 
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, MILK DOES NOT COME FROM A COW.
IT COMES FROM A MILKMAN.
 
ALL EPISODES OF "BULLSEYE" FROM SERIES 1-7 INCLUSIVE WERE DESTROYED ON THE ORDERS OF JIM BOWEN'S AGENT.
 
SNOT WAS INVENTED TO KEEP HANDKERCHIEF AND TISSUE MANUFACTURERS IN JOBS.
 
THE GRAND OLD DUKE OF YORK DID NOT HAVE 10,000 MEN. HE DID, HOWEVER, HAVE 13 CARS INCLUDING AN ASTON MARTIN AND A JAGUAR GT40.
 
SIMON COWELL HAS A CENTRE PARTING, BECAUSE HE HAS CRAP HAIR.
 
AN ELEPHANT HAS 5 KNEES.
 
"ASTHMA" IS DEAD DIFFICULT TO SPELL WHEN YOU'RE FIVE.
 
"COCA COLA" IS NOT "THE REAL THING".
"THE REAL THING" IS A SOUL/FUNK OUTFIT OF THE 1970S/80S.
 
THE M25 IS CRAP.
 
20 NATIONAL LOTTERY DRAWS ON THE BBC ARE RECORDED IN ONE DAY.
 
DALE WINTON AND EAMONN HOLMES HAVE LOTS OF MONEY.
 
GIRAFFES HAVE LONG NECKS SO THEY CAN BE THE TALLEST ANIMAL.
 
IF THE ACTOR "SID OWEN" HAD ANOTHER "W" IN HIS NAME INSTEAD OF AN "E", HIS NAME WOULD BE AN ANAGRAM OF "WINDOWS".
 
AGAINST POPULAR BELIEF, TOENAILS ARE MADE FROM PERSPEX, BUT FINGERNAILS ARE MADE FROM POLYURETHANE.