Weird Fact of the Day that you probably didnt knowWant to prove yourself the king of strange trivia when youre down the pub Every day well, most days, well be regaling you with an odd fact about the world each one of them guaranteed 1. CONTENTS 007. A PAC A SI A PACIF IC 010 016 020 022 024 026 028 030 032 034 037. CHINAHONG KONG sponsored by pr lighting INDIAN SUB CONTINENT sponsored by. ParaNorman is a 2012 American 3D stopmotion animated comedy horror film produced by Laika, distributed by Focus Features and was released on August 17, 2012. It. Wikipedia. You can also look through our archive of previous Weird Facts Weird Fact of the Day July 2. Weird Fact of the Day May to June 2. Weird Fact of the Day March to April 2. Weird Fact of the Day January to February 2. Weird Fact of the Day November to December 2. Weird Fact of the Day September to October 2. Tuesday, December 6 Butterflies taste with their feet. 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Hamm struggled to find work early on in his career, which he puts down to his inability to play young roles due to his always mature looks. Friday, November 1. It is against the law to sing off key in North Carolina. A number of bizarre laws are still in place in America, though rarely enforced. It is also illegal to have sex in a churchyard or to use elephants to plough cotton fields. Wednesday, October 2. Americas world famous and highly romanticised highway Route 6. American motors, started out as a camel trail. On the back of the mid 1. Centurys Californian gold rush, Congress commissioned LT. Ned Beale to survey and establish a road, which wagons could use, linking the Colorado River to New Mexico. Beale dutifully went about his business using camels and not the customary horse as his means of transport on his pioneering expedition. Tuesday, October 1. British born Academy award winning actor Daniel Day Lewis worked as a shoe maker in Northern Italy before he made his return to the silver screen in 2. Gangs of New York. Wednesday, October 1. Rolling Stone Keith Richards is so keen on shepherds pie that he goes beserk if he doesnt get the first piece in the canteen when the band go on tour. Wednesday,October 6 In October 1. California Polytechnic University. The embryos were later found, but despite a 1,5. Thursday, September 3. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing 18 on this page. Any Oscar winner who is thinking about selling their coveted award for a large sum of money must first offer the gong back to the Academy, who can buy it back for 1. Monday, September 2. Ed Milifact According to Robin Blackburn, a close friend of the Miliband brothers father Ralph Miliband, the young Ed Miliband could solve a Rubiks Cube in just over a minute. One handed. Friday, September 2. The legions of couch potatoes out there can be particularly thankful to Zenith. In 1. 95. 0, Zenith created the worlds first ever television remote control, called Lazy Bones. Wednesday, September 2. The Beatles 1. 96. Yesterday has been covered more times than any other song ever written. However, the songs original title was Scrambled Eggs, which doesnt quite have the same ring to it. Tuesday, September 2. The brother of Oscar winning actor Kevin Spacey is also in showbusiness. Hes a Rod Stewart impersonator. Monday, September 2. You might think that graffiti is a relatively new urban movement but the act actually dates back thousands of years. Messages such as Staphylus was here, Phileros is a eunuch and I screwed the barmaid were written on walls in the Italian city of Pompeii and preserved when it was buried by volcanic ash. The word grafitti comes from the Italian graffiato, meaning scratched. Friday, September 1. Ferruccio Lamborghini, founder of Automobili Lamborghini in 1. Enzo Ferrari to have a little moan about a Ferrari he purchased. Lamborghini felt snubbed by Ferrari and in a defiant stance decided to start producing high end sports cars himself. Already a rich man due to his businesses, Ferruccio set up the best facilities to facilitate his idea and the end result as they say, is history. Thursday, September 1. The amount of land used for golf courses in the United States of America takes up almost as much land as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Tuesday, September 1. When footballer Stefan Schwarz signed for Sunderland in a record transfer for the club in 1. Sunderland were worried that Schwarz, a well known space enthusiast, would be tempted to accompany one of his advisers, who had tickets for one of the planned upcoming commercial tourist flights into space that were then scheduled for 2. In the end, by the time Schwarz ended his playing career with Sunderland in 2. Monday September 1. As we look forward to the upcoming 2. London Olympics, a bit of London Olympic history at the 1. Olympic Games in London, the first runner to enter the stadium at the end of the marathon event was Italian athlete Dorando Pietri. Unfortunately for Dorando, he was so fatigued and disorientated as he entered the arena that he promptly headed the wrong way around the track. Officials pointed him in the correct direction. Easy Card Creator Enterprise Serial Full here. However, the Italian collapsed he rose again but fell to the floor time and time again. Bring Me Your Love Zip. Fearful that Pietri may actually die in front of the Queen, officials carried the Italian over the line. This supposedly helpful act resulted in Pietris disqualification, and the USAs John Hayes was subsequently awarded the gold. Manute Bol interviewed at the height of his career RexmailpixMonday, September 6 Have you ever heard of Manute Bol He was one of the tallest NBA players to ever play professional basketball, at 7ft 7inches tall, though his arrival to the US  from Sudan confused immigration control. His passport listed him as 5ft 2inches tall more than 2ft of difference between that and his actual height. Explaining the situation, Bol said They measured me while I was sitting down. Bol passed away on June 1. Wednesday, August 2. Wales may be famous for many things beautiful mountains, a dragon bearing flag and Charlotte Church, to name but three. They can chalk up one more achievement and add it to the list The Welsh hold the record for the number of people dressed up as Smurfs at any one time 2,5. The previous record was a relatively paltry 1,2. Good on you, Wales. Vauxhall underground station The Russian word for station is derived from here. Tuesday, August 2. The Russian word for a railway station is vokzal, which may sound phonetically similar to Vauxhall. Interestingly, this isnt a coincidence the story goes that a Russian delegation visited Vauxhall, South London in 1. From there, they decided that when constructing railways in Russia, stations would be called vokzal. Thursday, August 1. Fred and Wilma Flintstone were the first couple cartoon or otherwise to be shown in bed together on a prime time television show, during the cartoons original run between 1. Monday, August 1. The Ford Pinto a classic compact car of the 7.