The world’s tallest building at the end of the 19th century was the Eiffel Tower

A mobile phone carries more germs than a toilet seat

Da Vinci wrote backwards to stop smudges

TV stars Ant and Dec are insured against each other’s death

The most played record of the last 70 years is “A Whiter Shade Of Pale.” By Procol Harum.

The first advert to appear on Channel 5 was for ‘Chanel No 5’ perfume

Sir Stanley Matthews was the first footballer to be knighted

Eating a bag of watercress is supposed to be a cure for hangovers

The first ready prepared meal available at Marks & Spencer’s in the late 1970’s was ‘Chicken Kiev’

The avocado has the most calories of any fruit

Top chef Gordon Ramsay takes a size 15 shoe!

Charlotte, Emily and Anne, the Bronte sisters, all died of tuberculosis and were outlived by their father

96% of the weight of a cucumber is water

The first British telephone directory was published in 1880; it had 25 names in it

The football club Sheffield Wednesday was founded by a group of shop workers on their afternoon off

After Richard Hammond, the Top Gear presenter had his 300mph crash, he developed a craving for celery, which he previously wouldn’t eat

The quagga was a type of zebra which was hunted to extinction in the 19th century

426,000 Britons are allergic to birds and they don’t know it!

One in 10 Scandinavians is conceived in an Ikea bed