3 Facts/Stories of the Day

[Siobhan]

1. Stonehenge is estimated to be 1,500 years older than Rome's Colosseum.

just wanted to add an Irish fact to this :

Newgrange was originally built between c.3300-2900 BC, which means that it is over 5,000 years old. According to Carbon-14 dates,[2] it is more than 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, and predates Stonehenge trilithons by about 1,000 years

[Abigail]

1. Stonehenge is estimated to be 1,500 years older than Rome's Colosseum.

That's amazing considering the state of the Colosseum.

[Perdita]

1. A Chinese man is suing for divorce after discovering he is the father of only one of his twins. The man said he noticed the difference between the babies the day they were born, as one was substantially bigger than the other. He became suspicious when the smaller baby turned out to have a different blood type - along with the fact that it didn't look like him. After having his own and the two babies DNA tested he discovered that he was the biological father of only the bigger twin.

2. An average person visit the toilet 2,500 times a year.

3. A Cambodian boy refuses to go to bed without his beloved pet - a six-metre Burmese python. The snake first slithered into the village six years ago when she was just 20 inches long and the boy was three months old. His parents tried to return it to the forest three times but she kept coming back, and would be found lying next to the child. The unlikely pair have now slept together every night for the past six years.

[Abigail]

1. That's incredibly rare for a woman to carry two babies at the same time that have different fathers.

3. I don't like reptiles.

[Perdita]

You spend abut three years of your life in the toilet.

The world's longest continuous fence runs through central Queensland for 5,531 kilometres. It's designed to keep sheep safe from dingoes.

A barber in China has set a world record by cutting a customer's hair with 10 pairs of scissors simultaneously. The 41-year-old demonstrated his stunt in a television studio with hundreds of people, and Guinness officials, in the audience. The barber managed the hairdressing feat in less than three minutes and says he started practicing the stunt to try to cope with the number of customers coming to his shop.

[Perdita]

Because I did not give you 3 facts last Friday (sorry), here are some more today:

If your tiny tearaway is having difficulty doing their sums, tell them to wave their hands in the air. New research has shown that gesturing can help youngsters solve mathematical problems, and kids who use their hands more can solve one-and-a-half times more sums than children who kept still.

In 1885 Gunnar Gavelin rode into Moscow on his pet pig. He had set out from Stockholm a month earlier in an effort to win a bet.

The first member of the British roayl family ever to leave home for a haircut was Queen Elizabeth II.

[Abigail]

A barber in China has set a world record by cutting a customer's hair with 10 pairs of scissors simultaneously. The 41-year-old demonstrated his stunt in a television studio with hundreds of people, and Guinness officials, in the audience. The barber managed the hairdressing feat in less than three minutes and says he started practicing the stunt to try to cope with the number of customers coming to his shop.

How did he manage that?

[Abigail]

In 1885 Gunnar Gavelin rode into Moscow on his pet pig. He had set out from Stockholm a month earlier in an effort to win a bet.
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Can't imagine that was a comfy ride

[Perdita]

1. Kangaroos can't walk backwards.

2. California has issued at least six drivers licenses to people named
Jesus Christ

3. Four out of the 10 best universities in the world are in Britain, according to
new league tables. Oxford and Cambridge are both in joint second place
behind Harvard, and Imperial College London jumped four places up to fifth
position. University College London rose to ninth position from 25th last
year, which is the biggest improvement on the chart.

[Perdita]

1. A Spanish shopping centre has set up a creche for stressed-out husbands fed up with being dragged around by their partners. The mall, near Barcelona, wanted to provide a place for husbands to relax while their wives shop. The creche has comfortable chairs, newspapers and televisions, and has been named the 'husband parking area'.

2. 'Jedi' is and official religion with over 70,000 followers in Australia.

3. All the planets in the solar system rotate anticlockwise except Venus.