Here are some facts that maybe, we didn't know.... * Charles Dickens founded his own newspaper,the Daily News at 90 Fleet St in 1846.. * Psycho star Anthony Perkins' son,Elvis Perkins,is a folk singer.. * The first man - made diamonds were produced in Sweden in 1953.. * Lycra was invented and produced by Du Pont in 1958 and is known in America as Spandex.. * Taki-taki has the smallest vocabulary of any language with just 340 words.. * According to superstition putting money in the pocket of new clothes brings good luck.. * Mermaids get their name from " mere ", an old French word for the sea.. * America are the worlds biggest fruit juice drinkers,slurping an average 30.3 litres per head each year.. * Of Queen Annes 17 children none survived beyond the age of 12.. * Fred Nirk is the Australian equivalent of Joe Bloggs.. * 14 billion pounds of rubbish wash up on the worlds beaches each year... * The patient in the board game Operation is called Cavity Sam.. * US President Andrew Jackson put out flour and water each day for a family of mice living in his bedroom.. * 10% of all people ever born are alive today.. * Forsythia is named after 18th-century Scottish horticulturalist William Forsyth.. * Chimpanzees can grow up to 122cm tall.. * Toyota means," fertile paddy fields". * The moon is moving away from the Earth at a rate of 3.8cm every year.. * There are more plastic flamingos in the US than real ones.. * The symbols for the sexes ( a circle with an arrow or a cross) were designed by 18th century Swedish taxonomist Carl Linneaeus.. * Bowler hats were first commissoned by William Coke,brother of the 2nd Earl of Leicester to protect huntsman and estate workers from low branches.. Give us some of your strange facts......IF YOU DARE.....
