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1. President Richard Nixon once called Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi a "pregnant dog".

2. Wimbledon's oldest surviving champion, Phyllis King, 99, won a gold medal and a £10 shopping voucher.

3. The technology which uncovered a new da Vinci sketch was designed to spot tanks on the battlefield.

4. Glastonbury sewage has such a high alcohol content that the raised ammonia level causes problems at the local sewage plant.

5. Noel Gallagher is reading his first book, Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.

6. Harry Potter is used at Guantanamo Bay. US Congress members who visited said an interrogator read the boy wizard's adventures aloud for hours until the detainee put his hands over his ears.
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7. Oliver Twist is very popular in China, where its title is translated as Foggy City Orphan.

8. Newborn dolphins and killer whales don't sleep for a month, according to research carried out by University of California.

9. Paul Winchell, who gave the Disney Tigger his voice, was also an inventor, patenting an artificial heart in 1963.

10. The Vatican no longer has a "Devil's Advocate" - the role of arguing against the canonisation of a particular individual. Pope John Paul II abolished the post in 1983.

Wow Glyn, you're a mine of info!! And I can't help but read it!!!  Lottie  ;D

Hi Glyn,
I can add a few:
- Papaphobia is the fear of Popes
- the only domestic animal not mentioned din the Bible is the cat
- it takes about 4 pounds of grapes to make a single pound of raisins
- the dial tone of a normal telephone is the key-note F
- the average person in the UK will spend 2 weeks of their lifetime waiting for traffic lights to change
- the flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field
- there are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo
- the popular American comic strip "Peanuts" is known as "Radishes" in Denmark
- a beard grows an average of 140mm a year
- the microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket
- Cola was originally green
- the very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during WW!! killed the only elephant in Berlin Zoo
- a c0ckroach can live up to nine days without its head, before it starves to death
- you would have to count to one thousand to use the letter "A" in the English language to spell a whole number
- the world's largest wine cask is in Heidelberg, Germany (my husband's favorite fact; he's been there and got a photo)
- the glue on Israeli postage stamps is certified kosher
- cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball

so there :)  wg