3 Facts/Stories of the Day

[Perdita]

The most scariest creatures on earth are spiders though, they really freak me out. In fact, I have a problem with any creature that has more than 4 legs

[di marco]

awwww i love cats! the scariest creatures are definitely wasps and craneflies though!

[Perdita]

1. You'll burn off 25 extra calories during the day if you are wearing jeans.

2. The average woman tries on 14 pairs of jeans before they buy a pair.

3. Constructions workers have reportedly buried a stash of Scots memorabilia under the pitch of the new Wembly stadium. Scottish builders apparently left national scarves and shirts under goal lines, penalty spots, the centre circle and the England dugout after being the butt of football jokes from their English colleagues.

[di marco]

1. You'll burn off 25 extra calories during the day if you are wearing jeans.

oh good im wearing jeans today!

2. The average woman tries on 14 pairs of jeans before they buy a pair.

with me its more like a try on the whole shop before i buy anything!

[Perdita]

1. Five million tonnes of CO2 could be saved each year if all UK residents switched to energy-saving lightbulbs.

2. £8.8billion was paid in bonuses in 2006 to financiers working in the city.

3. A twist in Welsh policy means that lorry drivers entering the country must stub out cigarettes, but only if they are sharing their cabs. Truckers on the A55 will have to be particularly careful, following the ban on smoking in Wales. A lorry cab counts as a workplace, meaning drivers are just as liable as anyone else at work.

[Perdita]

1. On the island of Jersey it is against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.

2. In 1979, a record breaking row of 169,713 dominos was toppled by Michael Cairney.

3. In 1996, Robert Norse Kalm became the first American to be convicted for feeding the hungry - he was giving out food to homeless people without a permit.

[di marco]

3. A twist in Welsh policy means that lorry drivers entering the country must stub out cigarettes, but only if they are sharing their cabs. Truckers on the A55 will have to be particularly careful, following the ban on smoking in Wales. A lorry cab counts as a workplace, meaning drivers are just as liable as anyone else at work.

im pretty certain thats the case in england as well, you cant smoke in a company van

[Perdita]

1. Walt Disney named Mickey Mouse after Mickey Rooney, whose mother he dated for a while.

2. In Michigan, it is illegal to chain an alligator to a fire hydrant. Why would you want to do that??

3. An American man set a new world record in 2001 - doing 4,181 sit-ups in one hour.

[Perdita]

1. On average, women blink nearly twice as much as men.

2. In 1997, Mary Esposito of Georgia won an American competition to find the most cockroach-infested house. She had 75,000 in her home and won $1,000.

3. Tom Hanks collects 1940's typewriters.

[Perdita]

1. Abraham Lincoln went to school for less than a year and taught himself to read and write.

2. A German woman has become Venice's first female gondolier. Alexandra Hai can't sing and has failed her gondola-steering exam three times. But after a 10-year-struggle, a court has ruled she can ferry guests to three one-star hotels in the city. Since gondoliering began in 1094, there's never been a female or foreign gondolier. To be good enough, you must take part in a 150-hour training course and complete both a written test on the technical aspects of the boat and a practical test.

3. People passing through London's Covent Garden were invited to tuck into a huge Easter billboard made from chocolate. The 14 ft by 9 ft creation weighed 60 stone and was decorated with 10 hand-crafted chocolate bunnies and 72 huge eggs. It also included 128 panels of chocolate and took a master chocolatier 221 hours to make.