3 Facts/Stories of the Day

[Perdita]

1. In 2000, a lecturer published a book that was totally blank. Anne Lydiat said 'Lost For Words' was intended to be a 'feminie space where there is silence'.

2. In 2001, a man from Essex stunned doctors after his heart stopped 13 times - and he made a full recovery.

3. In 1999, an advertising agency revealed a new breed of consumer - 'Brookside Man'. Apparently he had a TV in most rooms of the house, an expensive hi-fi and lived on a housing estate.

[di marco]

1. In 2000, a lecturer published a book that was totally blank. Anne Lydiat said 'Lost For Words' was intended to be a 'feminie space where there is silence'.

did anyone actually buy it lol?!

[Perdita]

1. The longest Oscar acceptance speech was made by Greer Garson for 'Mrs. Miniver' in 1924. It took an hour.

2. Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were roommates at Harvard.

3. Swiss Christians in 2007 were calling for the country's Eurovision Song Contest entry to be banned, amid claims that it is Satanic. The Federal Democratic Union had handed in a 49,000-signature petition to the government demanding action was taken on DJ Bobo's single, 'Vampires Are Alive'. The FDU claimed that the singer trivialises hell and Satan in the song. But DJ Bobo insisted that the words were made up and that everyone has the right to say what they want.

[Perdita]

In 2000, scientists revealed that early man had used a frozen lake as a prehistoric fridge.

2. In 2000, the world's first talking supermarket trolley was launched in Germany. 'Watson' told you what bargains to buy whilst in the aisles. I imagine there would have been plenty of arguments with 'Watson' if he pointed out stuff the shoppers really did not want to buy

3. In 2000 a high court in Ipswich had to be evacuated because of the stench from a £1 million haul of cannabis that was being used for evidence.

[Perdita]

1. John Lennon and Yoko Ono's 1968 album 'Two Virgins' was sold in the US in a plain brown paper wrapper as on the real cover they both had posed nude.

2. Ronald Reagan was the oldest American president to ever leave office at 77 years old.

3. Bulgaria has admitted that hardly anybody bothers to pay traffic fines because there is no one to collect the money. The legal loophole means that although the police are empowered to hand out everything from speeding fines to parking tickets, there's no official body to collect the fines. Last year, only £690,000 out of a total of £11 million was paid, mostly by foreigners who were unaware that they could avoid the fine.

[Perdita]

1. Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney collected 35 Oscars.

2. In Fairbanks, Alaska it is illegal for a moose to walk on the pavement. What do they do to one if it does just that?

3. In 1882, hailstones up to five inches in diameter fell during a 13-minute storm in Dubuque, Iowa. Frogs were found alive in two of the stones.

[di marco]

3. In 1882, hailstones up to five inches in diameter fell during a 13-minute storm in Dubuque, Iowa. Frogs were found alive in two of the stones.

ive heard about that before, its weird!

[Perdita]

1. On average, a baby's heart will beat about 60 million times before it is born.

2. In 2003, a shop opened in Kilburn, London, selling nothing but Heinz tomato ketchup.

3. If you're right handed you tend to chew on the right-hand-side of your mouth, while if you're left handed you tend to chew on the left.

[di marco]

3. If you're right handed you tend to chew on the right-hand-side of your mouth, while if you're left handed you tend to chew on the left.

really? i might try and remember to see if thats true lol!

[Perdita]

1. The average adult falls asleep seven minutes after turning the light off.

2. A father released after being wrongly imprisoned is back behind bars - for throwing eggs at the judge who jailed him. The 52-year-old had 'nursed a growing sense of grievance' after he was jailed for contempt of court two years ago. But when the Court of Appeal quashed his sentence recently, it triggered a reaction in the wronged man/ He went to the Royal Courts of Justice and managed to get through security with a box of eggs, once inside the courtroom he threw three eggs, hitting the judge. He was then sentenced to two months in prison.

3. The average human will accidentally eat about a pound in weight of insects over the course of a lifetime.