Fascinating Facts and Trivia

Johnny Di Francesco of 400 Gradi restaurant in Melbourne, Australia, set the Guinness World Record for the cheesiest pizza by creating a pie using 154 different kinds of cheese. Di Francesco said he was inspired by the 2014 film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in which the Donatello character claims that a 99-cheese pizza was a “culinary impossibility.”

It's against the law to burp, or sneeze in a church in Nebraska, USA.

Queen Elizabeth I regarded herself as a paragon of cleanliness. She declared that she bathed once every three months, whether she needed it or not

In 1912 a law passed in Nebraska where drivers in the country at night were required to stop every 150 yards, send up a skyrocket, wait eight minutes for the road to clear before proceeding cautiously, all the while blowing their horn and shooting off flares.

The term “soccer” does not originate in America. The word is from Britain, where it was derived from a short form of “Association Football.”

Defeated only once in roughly 300 matches, President Abraham Lincoln was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall Of Fame in 1992.

The Sahara is the largest non-polar desert in the world. It is comparable in size to China or the United States.

In the Superman comeback film Superman Returns, Kevin Spacey's henchman and the kid are seen playing along to Heart and Soul by Hoagy Carmichael. This is widely acknowledged as one of the hardest pieces of music to play solo and usually played by two people. This song also crops up in BIG with Tom Hanks and Robert Loggia dancing on a giant piano keyboard inside the world's largest toy store FAO Schwartz. You can try it out if you visit there in New York.

The Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia is the world’s deepest hole. It is 7.5 miles deep, but interestingly, only 9 inches wide.

King Henry VIII had a “Groom of the Stool”, whose job was to monitor and assist in the King’s bowel motions. The role remained in existence until King Edward VII abolished it in 1901.

With an average height of about 13,000 feet and stretching for 4,300 miles, the Andes Mountains are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

High heeled shoes were originally created for men.

The Tokyo Dog food truck in Seattle, Washington, charges $169 for their “Juuni Ban,” making it the world’s most expensive hot dog. The hot dog includes smoked cheese bratwurst, butter Teriyaki grilled onions, Maitake mushrooms, Wagyu beef, foie gras, shaved black truffles, caviar, and Japanese mayonnaise on a brioche bun.

Breathing Mumbai's air for one day is the same as smoking 100 cigarettes in a day.

The moon gets 1.5 inches farther from the Earth every year.

An apple, potato, and onion all taste the same if you eat them with your nose plugged. Our sense of taste is 80% made up of our sense of smell. If you were to blindfold yourself and plug your nose, you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between these three foods!

Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime. Just a few months before his death, Van Gogh sold his painting “The Red Vineyard.” It was sold in Brussels, Belgium for 400 francs.

A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate! Not only do they make plates out of wheat, but spoons, bowls, and chopsticks as well. The dishes can be kept for months as long as they stay dry!

The song "Purple Haze" was written by Jimi Hendrix after he had a dream about walking underwater.

Before he renaimed himself Bob Dylan, Robert Allen Zimmerman briefly went by Elston Gunn.

Pianos usually have around 220 - 230 strings that are made of steel and strung extremely tight in order to produce a sound when being struck by the hammers. The tension of the 230-odd strings in a grand piano exert a combined force of 20 tonnes on the cast iron frame.

The worlds largest guitar, certified by the guiness book of world records is over 13 metres (about 43ft). That's about the length of a bus! Even more impressively, it is more than just a model - it is actually a playable instrument, with each string delivering the correct pitch. The guitar, which was made by The Academy Of Science And Technology in Texas, weighed a whopping 2,255lbs (just over 1,000kgs), took almost a year to build, featured aircraft cable for strings, and was the iconic shape of a Gibson Flying V.