?? Pineapple, Mela, and Bodies at Disney
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SINCE 2014 ?
1 ?- ?Number of times each month that someone tries to scatter human ashes at one of Disney's Parks. It's forbidden to do so.?
400 million ?- ?Number of visitors expected to participate in the pilgrimage to India's Kumbh Mela festival this week. It happens once every three years. A temporary city is built including 150,000 tents and over 3,000 kitchens.
￡327,000 ?- ?Annual base salary of the President of the United States. It was the same figure in 2001 - that's roughly ￡600,000 in today's money. The British PM earns ￡166,786.
￡100 ?- ?Price of the Hawaiian pizza at Lupa Pizza in Norfolk. Normal pizzas sell for around ￡15 but the owners want to encourage customers to "make better choices when it comes to their pizza" and avoid anything with pineapple on it.
78 ?- ?Number of bodies that have been recovered, so far, from an unauthorised gold mine in South Africa. Hundreds of workers have been inside since last July searching for metal scraps, but officials blockaded the mine in November, cutting off food, water, and other supplies: anyone leaving was arrested.
3%? - ?Percentage of Brits who wash their bathroom towels just once a year. 33% of us only wash them once every three months. Experts recommend that they're cleaned once a week.
7 ?- ?Number of times that Joe Biden visited the UK as President. That's three times more than the next most popular country; Germany.?
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50%? - ?Percentage of the world's cashew nut sales that are made by Costco.
$1,700 trillion ?- ?Value of gold contained in the world's oceans.? ?
This Week in History . .
1535 - Henry VIII declares himself the head of the Church of England.?By age three, Henry VIII had been the Constable of Dover Castle, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Earl Marshal of England, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, a Knight of the Bath, Duke of York, and Warden of the Scottish Marches.
1759 - British Museum open in London.?That makes it older than the USA.?
1920 - Prohibition of alcohol comes into effect in the US as a result of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. It didn't legally stop people from drinking but instead banned manufacturing, selling, and transporting alcohol.?
1980 - Pink Floyd's double album "The Wall" hits number 1.?The names Pink and Floyd came from two of Syd Barrett’s favourite Carolina bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
2009 - US Airways Flight 1549 successfully lands on the Hudson River in NYC. All passengers and crew survived. You can still visit the plane now. It was lifted up from the bottom of the river and taken to the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte.?
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