Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The television was invented only two years after the invention of sliced bread.

Before the term “bloopers” was coined, ‘out-takes’ were called ‘boners’.

Elephants make friends, bury their dead, travel for ‘funerals’, speak to each other, and show extreme intelligence.

People don’t sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.

Every year in June a bizarre festival takes place in the village of Castrillo de Murcia near Burgos in Spain during which men dress up like the devil and then jump over babies born in the previous twelve months of the year!

Known as El Colacho, this strange custom is part of the country-wide Corpus Christi celebrations yet only happens in this small village.

In the 16th Century, it was a common belief amongst people that the Mandrake Plant grew only where the ejaculated semen of a dead hanged man touched the ground.

When Saddam Hussain was in custody he would listen to pop radio and apparently all things stopped when his favourite, Mary J. Blige came on

THe modern submarine was invented by an Irishman. John Phillip Holland.

Steve Jobs relieved stress by soaking his feet in Apple’s company toilets

Sherlock Holmes NEVER actually said, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”