Fascinating Facts and Trivia

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Two PlayStation 1 games, FIFA 2001 and Grand Turismo 2 have scratch and sniff discs. The FIFA disc smells like a football field, and the Grand Turismo disc smells of car tyres.

Before the term ‘bloopers’ was coined, ‘out-takes’ were called ‘boners’.

Digging a hole to China is theoretically possible if you start in Argentina.

Australia has more than 10,000 beaches. You could visit a new beach every day for the next 27 years.

The word ‘oxymoron’ is in itself an oxymoron. This is because it derives from Ancient Greek where ‘oxy’ means ‘sharp’ and ‘moros’ means ‘stupid’.

In 2005, Iraqi insurgents tried to convince American officials that they were holding an American soldier hostage and meant to kill him if Iraqi prisoners were not released. However their supposed hostage turned out to be a military action figure, not an actual soldier.

16% of mobile phones have fecal matter on them (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

There are more vacant houses than homeless people in the United States.