Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Next to the US Army, Disney is the largest buyer and importer of explosives in the USA.

Redheads experience more pain and require 20% more anaesthetic during surgery than everyone else.

The first 3D film was created in September 1922. The film even had an alternate ending, decided by closing one eye or the other.

Prior to 2015, if you danced after 1am in Japan, you were breaking a 1948 law which strictly forbade it.

The spiral shapes in Sunflowers follow a Fibonacci Sequence (That's where you add the two preceding numbers in the sequence to give you the next one. So it starts: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21, etc) The Fibonacci Sequence shows up in nature a fair bit.

The leg bones of a bat are so thin that out of 1,200 species of bat, only 2 can walk on ground. These are The Vampire Bat and The Burrowing Bat.

A Cabbage is 91% water.

Avocado has the highest protein content of all fruit.

Fear of an empty alcohol glass is called Cenosillicaphobia.

For a Christmas to be officially classified as "White", a single snow flake needs to be observed falling in the 24 hours of 25th December on the rooftop of The Met Office HQ in London.

In 1999, residents of the state of Maine in America built the worlds biggest ever snowman, he stood 113ft tall.

A 16 year old may legally vote in Serbia, but only if they are an employed citizen.

In 1984, Jackie Chan won the Japanese best foreign singer award.

In 2014, a tree dedicated to Beatle George Harrison was ravaged by beetles.

American scientists have discovered that cheetah’s love the smell of Calvin Klien’s ‘Obsession for Men’.

The letter A does not appear in a single number counting upward until you reach 1000.