Fascinating Facts and Trivia

A dog named Konjo managed to race 5 metres on his front paws in just 2.39 seconds in California on December 22, 2014.

As the new film Stan and Ollie(Steve Coogan & John C Reilly) opens it reminded me of several people that portrayed Laurel and Hardy. One such 'duo' was former Goon Show star Harry Secombe and all-round entertainer that sadly died of leukaemia through tobacco smoke inhaled at clubs through his trumpet-playing, Roy Castle. He and Harry portrayed the duo in a special they did for Harry's show. Hanna-Barbera also created a series of short cartoons starring Laurel and Hardy (in fact double acts featured quite a lot in their stable of characters such as Breezly and Sneezly, Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har and of course Tom and Jerry)

Tom and Jerry was the original name of Simon and Garfunkel.

Cats have 32 muscles in each ear.

Toilets use 35% of indoor water use.

Croissants were invented in Austria.

Muhammad Ali is know for the phrase "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" but it was coined by his then manager Bundini Brown - should finish "the hands can't hit what the eyes can't see" or something like that

The largest self propelled object ever built was the ULCC supertanker Seawise Giant (later Happy Giant, Jhare Viking, Knock Nevis and finally Mont) at 458.45 meters long and having a gross tonnage of 260,941 tons.

The largest floating offshore facility ever built is the FLNG Shell Prelude at 488 meters long and having a gross tonnage of 300,000 tons.

Goldfish can see infrared and ultraviolet light.

The first Burger King was opened in Miami, Florida in 1954.