Fascinating Facts and Trivia

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The maps used by self-driving cars cannot be read by humans.

Elvis Presley was naturally blond. He dyed his hair black.

Elvis Presley and Oprah Winfrey are distant cousins.

The last thing Elvis Presley ate before he died was four scoops of ice cream and six chocolate chip cookies.

A TV commercial from Paddy Power that featured a blindfolded footballer kicking a cat into a tree was the most complained about TV commercial of 2010 and the third most complained about ad of all time.

12% of the Earth's surface is permanently under snow or ice.

Several species of tuna attempt to protect themselves from shark attacks by associating with dolphins.

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The world's largest pizza was twice the size of a tennis court.

The money spent on Christmas presents in the UK could fund the N.H.S from Boxing Day to 12th February.

A Swede born with 'a silver spoon in their mouths' is said to have 'slid in on a shrimp sandwich'.

In the Australian outback, there is a road used for testing supercars that has no speed limit (just don't tell Jeremy Clarkson)

Before finding fame Cheryl Cole had a small part in a 1990 British Gas advert.

Speaking of British Gas, when they created a cartoon character to publicise their company someone remarked on how similar it looked to the comic actor Kenneth Williams. Later Nicholas Spargo took this idea and created the series 'Willo the Wisp' which featured voices by Kenneth, including Mavis Cruet, a snail called Arthur and a weird daft dog called the Moog! This would be a series of 10min cartoon shorts just before the main news on BBC1.