Fascinating Facts and Trivia

If you’re over 100 years old, there’s an 80% chance you’re a woman.

If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (when the first atomic bomb was made), your birthplace would have been listed as a post office box in Albuquerque.

In 1973, Swedish confectionery salesman Roland Ohisson was buried in a coffin made entirely of chocolate.

Annually, approximately 250,000 American husbands are physically attacked and beaten by their wives.

In the year 2000, Pope John Paul II was named an “Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.”

Annually, France exports some 140 million bottles of champagne but keeps 180 million bottles for local consumption.

Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury was the model for the puppet Andy Pandy.
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John Mills's sister Annette was the presenter of Muffin the Mule.

Up until Star Wars came along the biggest franchise from a television or cinema film was Thunderbirds and practically all the Gerry Anderson productions.

(13-01-2019 21:23 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury was the model for the puppet Andy Pandy.
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Lionel Messi has now scored 400 goals in Spain’s La Liga.

Diana Ross performed her last concert with the Supremes on January 14, 1970 in Las Vegas.