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Cows can sleep standing up.
◆ The word gymnastics comes from the Ancient Greek words gumnasía, meaning “exercise”, and gumnós, which means “naked” because the original Olympians competed nude.
◆ Guinness World Records was originally titled The Guinness Book of Records.
◆ The most expensive letter sold at auction fetched £3,964,025. It was written by Francis Crick in 1953 to his son Michael Crick, outlining the discovery of the structure and function of DNA.
◆ During WW2, the signal “SSS” meant an attack by submarines while “AAA” meant an attack by aircraft.
◆ Ketchup was originally sold as a cure for an upset stomach.
◆ George Washington went from President to running America’s biggest whiskey distillery.
◆ Jean Venables became the first woman president of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2008.
◆ Stockard Channing was 33 when she played highschooler Rizzo in Grease; Jamie Donnelly, who played Jan, was 30; Olivia Newton-John was 29; and John Travolta was 23.
◆ Eric Clapton is nicknamed “Slowhand” as audiences would give him a slow hand clap while they watched him change his guitar strings.
◆ The most times a piece of paper has ever been folded in half is 12, by US student Britney Gallivan.
◆ Newtons is Mancunian rhyming slang for teeth, from Newton Heath.
◆ Norman Wisdom and Ronnie Barker were the BBC’s first and second choices for the role of Frank Spencer in Som
