Fascinating Facts and Trivia

It's illegal for supermarkets in France to waste food.

Supermarkets must either compost it or donate unsold or nearly expired goods to charity.

When Gene Wilder accepted the role of Willy Wonka, he had one condition: In his first appearance, Wilder wanted Wonka to limp toward the crowd with a cane in hand before falling into a perfect somersault and jumping back up.

The reason? “Because from that time on, no one will know if I’m lying or telling the truth.”

A reindeer's eyes change color through the seasons.

They’re gold during the summer and blue in the winter.

In the 1980's Pepsi Cola was launched and they did a taste test across the country(USA) asking people to sample their drink against Coca-Cola; surprisingly Pepsi came out on top and for the first in over 100 years Coca-Cola has a serious rival. In the 90's the company made a huge error by changing the taste of it and people hated it, some poured it away on the street outside Coca-Cola's building. They changed it back later calling it Coca-Cola Classic. Pepsi had some high name celebrities advertise their product most notably Michael Jackson(whom you might recall set his hair on fire after a pyrotechnic went off too near him) and the Spice Girls in the late 90's.

Robert Merrill was the man chosen to be the Coca-Cola loving builder that the women in an office lusted after, and 4 years later he is seen rising up on window cleaner's hoist to their delight - He was invited to the National TV Awards ceremony in 1998 and ended up winning an award. He said that when he was doing that second advert, it was shot in December and they spritzed him with water to make it look like he was sweating but all he got was goose-pimples(bumps)

The first record of attempted insurance fraud was in 300BC when a Greek sea merchant tried to sink his insured ship.

Two 1p coins weigh the same as one 2p coin, and two 5p coins weigh the same as one 10p coin.

Last night Mabel won a BRIT award almost to the day that her mother won two in the 80's. Her mother is 80's singer/rapper Neneh Cherry whose father was Don Cherry, a jazz musician. Her brother Eagle-Eye had a couple of hits here too including 'Save Tonight'

Sheena Easton who won a talent competition called 'The Big Time ' in the 80's is the only singer of a James Bond theme tune to appear in the titles-For Your Eyes Only(1981). She looks like she might be topless but she isn't.

Gene Autry is the only person to be awarded stars in all five categories on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (film, television, music, radio, and live performance).

There is a Boring, Oregon and a Dull, Scotland. They have been sister cities since 2012.

The first tiger shark to hatch inside of its mother’s womb eats all the other embryos of its siblings.

Even scientists admit that this is an unusual mode of survival.