Fascinating Facts and Trivia

South Africans can legally attach flamethrowers to cars to repel carjackers.

In 1998 all 11 members of a soccer team in Africa were killed by lightning while the other team were left unharmed.

There are more French speakers in Africa than there are in France.

(25-01-2019 12:35 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  South Africans can legally attach flamethrowers to cars to repel carjackers.

I saw a report on the news about that-I couldn't believe what I was seeing, something out of a James Bond film.

Girl group Atomic Kitten were going to be called Nuclear Pussy-just as well they changed their minds!

Today 2,500 Americans will try cocaine for the first time.

The cash machines in The Vatican Bank give users the option of having the instructions in Latin.

In London in 1916, Harrods was selling a kit described as a ‘Welcome present for friends at the front’.

The kit contained cocaine, morphine, syringes and needles.

Amazing to think that this July we will be commemorating the first man to walk on the moon Neil Armstrong AND the first landing on the moon in 1969. Unfortunately Neil died a few years ago and never made it to this historic event. He was recently named as one of the four icons of Exploration in the BBC's search to find THE icon of the twentieth century.

In 2011,a polar bear was tracked swimming continuously in search of land for nine straight days,covering 426 miles.