Love a bit of trivia down the pub? Here’s a few things we bet you didn’t know…
The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
The largest Greek population in the world besides Athens in Greece can be found in Melbourne, Victoria.
The harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument.
A group of flamingos is called a ‘flamboyance’.
In 1811, nearly a quarter of all women in Britain were called Mary.
The middle layers of space suits are blown up like a balloon to press against the astronaut’s body. Without this pressure, the astronaut’s body would boil.
One human hair can support 3.5 ounces – the weight of about two chocolate bars.
In the film ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day’, Arnold Schwarzenegger received a salary of $15 million; so the 700 words he spoke equated to $21,429 per word. “Hasta la vista, baby” therefore earned him $85,716.
For music artists to win a gold disc in Britain, an album needs to sell 100,000 copies. In the USA they must sell 500,000.
A kangaroo cannot walk backwards.
The Mexican delicacy ‘refried beans’ are actually normally only fried once.
It is a common rule amongst airlines that each pilot flying the aircraft must eat a different meal, in order to minimise the risk of all pilots on board being ill.
In English law it is illegal to wilfully and wantonly disturb people by ringing their doorbells or knocking at their doors – even if it the crime is passed off under a
name like ‘Knock down ginger’ or ‘knock-a-door run’.
The only 15 letter word in the English Language that can be spelled without repeating a letter is ‘uncopyrightable’.
The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” uses every letter in the alphabet.
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