Fascinating Facts and Trivia

University Challenge is Britain’s oldest and longest running quiz programme.

The meals produced by the contestants on Masterchef UK are usually cold by the time John Torode and Gregg Wallace come to sample them.

The fictional district of Walford in Eastenders is a mix of Walthamstow and Stratford - the areas of Greater London where creators Julia Smith and Tony Holland were born.

The outdoor Albert Square set was built on the same plot of land as the ‘Düsseldorf’ building site in ‘Auf Wiedersehen Pet’.

50,000 cells in your body died and were replaced by new ones during the time you read this sentence.

Parthenophobia is a fear of virgins.

A person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day is doing the equivalent of drinking half a cup of tar per year.

The rate at which a person’s hair grows doubles during an aeroplane flight.

Pound for pound, the strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter (jaw muscle). It can clamp your chompers shut with 55 pounds of force on your incisors and 200 pounds of force on the molars.

Your taste buds are replaced every 10 days. Conversely, the average age of a human fat cell is 10 years.