?? Muppets, Gym, and Floating Dogs
Charlie Jones
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SINCE 2014 ?
74 ?- ?Age of Wisdom, the world's oldest known wild bird. She is a Laysan albatross and will lay just one egg a year. She has 30 surviving chicks. (see it here)
70%? - ?Percentage of serial killers that received extensive head injuries as children or adolescents.?
44,444 ?- ?Number of days old that Ford turned this week. Henry Ford was a close friend of Thomas Edison and owned a sealed test-tube containing Edison's last breath. You can still see it in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
5%? - ?Global annual methane emissions that are produced by termites.?
75 to?100 ?- ?Average number of books read?by inmates at Alcatraz prison. Everyone else?in America reads 17 a year?on average.?
14 ?- ?Number of Grammy awards won by the Muppets. Both ABBA and Queen won 0.
-41 degrees C ?- ?Temperature recorded in the Tatra Mountains in Poland this week - a new record low for the country. -41 Celsius is the same as -42 Fahrenheit.?
22%? - ?Percentage of the Norwegian population who have a gym membership. 15.6% of Brits do.
3 ?- ?Number of dogs that survived the Titanic sinking. All were in first class and one was disguised as a baby.? ?
This Week in History . .
1564 - Michelangelo dies aged 88. He only ever signed one work. He later regretted his 'outburst of pride' and swore never to sign another.?
1804 - The World's first steam locomotive runs for the first time along the tramway of Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. It was invented by Richard Trevithick; a Cornish inventor and champion wrestler.?
1885 - Mark Twain published "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US. The book is a sequel to "Tom Sawyer" and took him seven years to write. It's widely seen as the first American novel.
1954 - John Travolta is born. An avid flyer, Travolta holds eight jet licenses, including one to fly a Boeing 747. He owns his own Boeing 737 plane that began its life flying for BA.?
1996 - "Trainspotting" opens in UK cinemas. In the famous toilet scene where Renton dives head first into a filthy loo to fish out his drugs, the 'waste' was actually chocolate mousse. The actors reported it smelling 'quite nice'.?
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Have a great weekend!
Charlie