Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The “I’m Feeling Lucky” feature in Google search actually cost Google $110 million a year, as 1% of all searches use this feature and bypass all advertising.

The Land of Nod is mentioned in the Bible.

Antiques Roadshow expert Paul Atterbury, when he was a young boy, was the face of children's television puppet show, Andy Pandy. His mother worked on the show.

Cynthia Felgate was the most prolific producer of television(mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records) and was even more credited than US tv producer Aaron Spelling.

The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.

There are about a million ants per person. Ants are very social animals and will live in colonies that can contain almost 500,000 ants.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world. (never mention them in The Times)

Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.

Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

You can try this if you have the vinyl record and a record player-if you play a Kylie Minogue record and slow it down she will mysteriously sound like Rick Astley!

In an average lifetime, the average American receives 31 prank phone calls.

In Disney’s ‘Fantasia’ the sorcerer’s name is Yensid which is Disney spelled backwards.