Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The season of spring travels north through the UK at the speed of roughly one-third of a mile per hour.

There are 181 moons in our solar system.

Seasons occur because of the 23.5 degree tilt of the Earth’s axis.

The first pop music single to pass two million sales in the UK was Mull of Kintyre by Wings in 1977.

I know that GreenMachine posted about Robert Wadlow in the first few pages of the thread but I was looking back at my copy of the 1989 Guinness Book of Records that I had in storage and it contained Wadlow's height chart from birth to his unfortunately early death.Absolutely incredible.

Birth : 1ft 8"
6 months : 2ft 10.5"
1 year : 3ft 6"
18 months : 4ft 3.25"
2 years : 4ft 6.25"
3 years : 4ft 11"
4 years : 5ft 3"
5 years : 5ft 6.5"
6 years : 5ft 7"
7 years : 5ft 10"
8 years : 6ft
9 years : 6ft 2.5"
10 years : 6ft 5"
11 years : 6ft 11"
12 years : 7ft
13 years : 7ft 4"
14 years : 7ft 5"
15 years : 7ft 10"
16 years : 8ft .25"
17 years : 8ft 3"
18 years : 8ft 4"
19 years : 8ft 6.5"
20 years : 8ft 7.25"
21 years : 8ft 8"
22 years : 8ft 11.1"

Earth’s rotation on its axis takes approximately 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds.

The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever constructed. In 2010, the cost was expected to be $150 billion.

Jack Keyes, then aged 23 of Northern Ireland, was celebrated in the 1970 Guinness Book of Records for drinking 36 pints in 60 minutes.

On July 28 2013, 1,213 people broke a Guinness world record by applying facial masks for 10 minutes at the same time.

Etibar Elchyev took the title for ‘Most spoons balanced on a human body’ by putting 50 metal spoons on his body.