- The sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog …” uses every letter of the alphabet.
- Saint Stephen is the patron saint of bricklayers.
- Dolphins may seem happy-go-lucky, but they actually sleep with one eye open.
- Forks were once considered sacrilegious – they were seen as ‘artificial hands’.
- Cleopatra wasn’t actually Egyptian. Really! Historians have traced the famous ruler’s lineage to Alexander the Great’s Macedonian general Ptolemy. So while she was an Egyptian queen, she was Greek.
- Your nose knows. In fact, it can remember 50,000 different scents.
- There are more LEGO mini-figures in existence than actual people on earth.
- A cloud can weigh nearly half a million kilos.
- You’re likely to spend six months of your life waiting for red lights to turn green.
- President Lyndon B. Johnson owned a water-surfing car.
- 19% of the people who read this list will double-check that “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog …” really does use every letter of the alphabet.
