With our resident expert Rusty Spakhandel
With our resident expert Rusty Spakhandel
Hi there fact-finders! Welcome to another helping of Well Fancy That! - appearing for the first time on the internet thanks to those crazy guys at Dancing Yak Productions! I don't really understand the point of their websites but, hey, keep up the good work fellas.
FACT!
Over 3000 people are hospitalised each year after inhaling
dangerously undersized furniture.
FACT!
UK Daytime TV Star Richard Madeley owns the world's largest
collection of used plaster casts. The centrepiece is a cast worn
by Joseph Stalin after he fractured his arm forging luncheon
vouchers.
FACT!
Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain, is in fact only 3
metres high from base to tip.
FACT!
The world's hottest country is Barbintua, a small island in the
Carribean. It gets so hot in the summer months that one of it's
residents is rumoured to have once considered taking off his
jacket.
FACT!
Milk will stay fresh for longer if you lock it in a drawer and
forget about it.
FACT!
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the stoat.
FACT!
An unopened packet of Post-It Notes was discovered in a meteorite
which landed in Wisconsin, USA in the early 1920's.
FACT!
Estaufman's syndrome is a rare psychiatric disorder which affects
only plumbers. Sufferers falsely believe that they have won a
small prize in a raffle, and spend most of their lives searching
for the ticket needed to redeem it.
FACT!
The infamous Australian con-man, Ivor Brenkins, once attempted to
'sell' Ayer's Rock to a Japanese tourist. He claimed the landmark
was known as "God's Lozenge" and was left to him by his
father.
FACT!
Two wrongs do not make a right, but three wrongs make a delicous
bedtime snack if served with hot milk.
FACT!
That Rubik bloke who invented that stupid rotating cube puzzle
thing stole the idea from me. If I don't get my share of the
royalties soon, I swear I'll sue. I mean it.
FACT!
American baseball legend Babe Ruth was born with only one liver.
FACT!
Chart-topping singer Alanis Morrisette is a werewolf, which is
why she never performs live on nights with a full moon.
Errata: In my column for last Friday's London Evening Standard I stated that the largest number of AOL promotional CD's received by a UK residence in a single day is 1026. This should, of course, have read that the smallest number of CD's received is 1026. Apologies for any confusion!
Rusty's columns Ask Me! and Well Fancy That! appear regularly in over 657,000 syndicated newspapers in the London area alone.