Fascinating Facts and Trivia

4% of the sand on Normandy beaches are still made up of metal particles from D-Day landings.

In 1944, by a huge coincidence, a crossword puzzle was printed with answers all containing D-Day operation "code names", which sent MI5 into a panic thinking their invasion plans had been discovered.

Elvis Presley didn't write any of his songs.

Elvis Presley hated John Lennon and wanted to beat him up for his anti-war stance.

In 2012, Elvis Presley's underwear was auctioned off but no one bought it.

On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global Internet traffic dropped by 40%.

(17-01-2019 20:55 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  Elvis Presley didn't write any of his songs.

Not one note or word, I'm told; though was credited on many by various composers, as per the rules the colonel imposed for those wishing to submit a song for him.

(blame my dad again, he is a big fan of 'the king', and has often used the defence that despite not writing any of his songs, no one could perform them quite like he could. lol)

There are more than 1,000 species of banana. We only eat one of them.

The largest banana plantation in Europe is in Iceland.

Banana ketchup is popular in the Philippines.

Bolivia has 37 official languages.