Fascinating Facts and Trivia

If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

The following sentence: 'A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.' Contains the nine different pronunciations of "ough" in the English Language.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

The first episode of "Joanie Loves Chachi" was the highest rated American programme in the history of Korean television, a country where "Chachi" translates to "penis".

(16-01-2019 21:21 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.

Only 55% of all Americans know that the sun is a star.

Oops has anyone told Margot Robbie that as she is going to play Barbie in a new film

The Fonz's leather jacket from Happy Days is held at the Smithsonian Institute#
Yeah but us Brits know that the Sun is a newspaper and so is the Star

(16-01-2019 21:22 )Carl_HoneyLover Wrote:  If we had the same mortality rate now as in 1900, more than half the people in the world today would not be alive.

Are we allowed to choose which half we want to get rid of??
(Just asking for a friend)

Kraftwerk means ‘Power Plant’ in German.

Bono got his stage name from a hearing aid shop in Dublin.

New Order’s ‘World in Motion’ was originally written as a TV theme tune.