Fascinating Facts and Trivia

M-L-L Not sure that exists.
Isn't the witches curse in Macbeth supposed to be a real curse as well?

Now that is fascinating, love all the space stuff, cheers Tezza.
Stephen Hawking's book about matter and black holes sold millions of copies but very few people actually understood it OR even got to the end of it.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Eskimos have over 15 words for the English word of 'Snow'

Butterflies can see red, green, and yellow.

Some people say that when the black bands on the Woolybear caterpillar are wide, a cold winter is coming.

Americans on the average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.

The Christmas tradition of putting tangerines in stockings comes from 12th-century French nuns who left socks full of fruit, nuts and tangerines at the houses of the poor.

It’s technically illegal to eat mince pies on Christmas Day in England. In the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas pudding, mince pies and anything to do with gluttony. The law has never been rescinded.

The Star of Bethlehem - the one the wise men followed to find the little baby Jesus - was probably a comet, or Uranus (stop sniggering at the back).

The last letter added to the English alphabet wasn't Z — it was the letter J.

Iceland has an elf whisperer who inspects construction sites before anything gets built to make sure no elves are hanging around.

4% of the sand on Normandy beach is made up of shrapnel from D-Day that has broken down.