Fun Facts Selection 1

There are 240 white dots in a Pacman arcade game
The Great Pyramid of Giza consists of 2,300,000 blocks each weighing 2.5 tons
More money is spent each year on alcohol and cigarettes than on Life insurance
It was the custom in Ancient Rome for the men to place their right hand on their testicles when taking an oath. The modern term ‘testimony’ is derived from this tradition
Between the two World War’s, France was controlled by forty different governments
The word ‘denim’ comes from ‘de Nimes’, Nimes being the town the fabric was originally produced
Eau de Cologne was originally marketed as a way of protecting yourself against the plague
On 15 April 1912 the SS Titanic sunk on her maiden voyage and over 1,500 people died. Fourteen years earlier a novel was published by Morgan Robertson which seemed to foretell the disaster. The book described a ship the same size as the Titanic which crashes into an iceberg on its maiden voyage on a misty April night. The name of Robertson’s fictional ship was the Titan
The ‘Hundred Years War’ lasted 116 years
Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He declined saying he had no head for problems
Coffee is the second largest item of international commerce in the world. The largest is petrol.