3 Facts/Stories of the Day

[Perdita]

1. In 2000, a German traffic policeman interrupted Chancellor Gerhard Schroder in the middle of a meal at a posh restaurant in Berlin to ask him to move his armoured car, which was parked illegally. (What, no chauffeur?)

2. Workers at an Australian fish factory discovered a human head inside the belly of a cod. The search for a local fisherman who had fallen overboard was called off. (How big was this cod?)

3. Malcolm Storey from Southampton went out for a drink at his local - despite the fact he'd broken his back, pelvis, arm and nose. His mates wheeled his bed past security men and into the pub.

[Perdita]

1. The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.

2. Police in Bucharest are looking for a busking pole dancer who performs her raunchy routines on the city's underground. She apparently strips off to Tom Jones's 'You Can Leave Your Hat On' playing on a portable CD. She then passes around a container for passengers to show their appreciateion. The woman faces charges for indecent exposure and public begging if she is caught in the act.

3. In 1997, a bull in Bedfordshire found his way into a china shop but left without breaking anything.

[Perdita]

1. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

2. There are more plastic flamingos in the U.S. than real ones.

3. More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones. (not in my house)

[Abbie]

1. Dolphins sleep with one eye open.

How odd, I wonder if they can see through this eye when they are asleep, I know its sound stupid, but its hard to picture this

[Perdita]

1. Slugs have four noses.

2. In 1924, British sprinter Eric Liddel refused to run in the 100m heats at the Paris Olympics because they fell on a Sunday.

3. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the colour blue.

[Perdita]

1. Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch television for three hours.

2. The US designer who invented the Pringles tube was so proud of his achievement he's been buried on one. The man, who died at 89, asked for some of his ashes to be put in a tube and buried in a grave in his home city of Cincinnati. He created the tube and the curved system for stacking the potato snacks inside it in 1966.

3. In 1997, Stone Roses drummer Alan Wren was jailed for seven days after being rude to a leading Manchester magistrate, who had questioned him about his earnings.

[Abigail]

3. Owls are one of the only birds who can see the colour blue.

How did they work that out?

[Abbie]

Is it something to do with the wavelenth they pick up we finished the eye in biology I know some birds/insects pick uo violet

[Pinkbanana]

2. In 1924, British sprinter Eric Liddel refused to run in the 100m heats at the Paris Olympics because they fell on a Sunday.

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Liddell was a committed Christian and refused to run on Sunday (the Sabbath), so instead he ran in the 400m, and won gold. A man of principle.

[Perdita]

1. A housefly regurgitates its food and then eats it again.

2. The average iceberg weighs 20 million tonnes. (How did they find this out)

3. In 2001, doctors in India found a fully grown jaw on the inside of a girl's chest - it was complete with teeth and tongue.