Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.

Try to breathe and swallow at the same time. You can’t.

New York City is further south than Rome, Italy.

North Korea and Finland are separated by one country.

When the first Star Wars film came out in 1977, France was still executing people with the guillotine.

Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.

Girls who study English in China and then find work will often take a Westernised name (see my 90's trip to China continued shortly for more about that)

Liverpool have scored more 90th minute winners against Everton than any other team has scored against any opposition in stoppage time in the Premier League era.

Yes and probably caused more fans to have heart failure doing it.

Cacophobia is the fear of ugliness.

The Potatopak company of Blenheim New Zealand make plates from potato starch so they can be eaten.

In 1898,author Morgan Robertson had a novel published entitled Futility. The plot centred around a huge British liner called Titan which hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks.14 years later,the real life disaster with the Titanic occurred.

Elephants are the only animals which can’t jump.

The first American film to show a toilet being flushed on screen was Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.