Did you know?

Did you know that flour-and-water paste was used a a glue on the Saturn V rockets used for the Apollo missions?

Did you know that the song "It's a long way to Tipperary" was written by Queen Victoria?

Did you know that Grimaldi the Clown was born in Llandudno?

Did you know that the M1 motorway in the UK was originally intended to go from London to Birmingham?

Did you know that the common garden sparrow walks more than it flies?

Did you know that the Titanic and her sister ships - Olympic and Britannic - were originally designed with magnetic hulls to try to get them to go faster?

Did you know that Top of the Pops once had a TV audience of 35 million?

Did you know that the deepest hole ever dug in Wales goes down three miles? Not a coal mine, as you might think, but an unsuccessful attempt to find water for Liverpool, to save the village of Treweryn from being turned into a reservoir

Did you know that early fax machines required the sender to whistle a certain tone to activate the machine?

Did you know that the proverb 'an eye for an eye' was originally about spelling?

Did you know that the English Channel is called the Soup Lake by the Belgians?

Did you know that the first football world cup was meant to be in 1928 but they couldn't agree where to play it?

Did you know that the first electronic calculator was manufactured in 1932, and was the size of a briefcase?

Did you know that the first settlements in the British Isles were in Wiltshire in 650BC?

Did you know that the River Thames is longer than the River Rhine?

Did you know that the fastest arthropod is the common slug which can travel at up to 5mph?

Did you know that it is illegal to feed bread to the swans in the Serpentine, Hyde Park, London?

Did you know that Yorkshire Cricket Club originally played in yellow, not white?

Did you know that Cleopatra, ruler of Egypt loved by Mark Anthony and Julius Caesar, was 6'2" (1.88m) tall?

Did you know that the windiest wind ever recorded in the UK is windier than the windiest wind ever recorded in Sweden?

Did you know that sea salt is saltier than mined salt?

Did you know that the western-most point in metropolitan France is further west that the western-most point in Iceland?

Did you know that the most abundant element in the Earth's core is Bismuth?

Did you know that the statue on Nelson's Column, popularly thought to be Admiral Horatio Nelson, is in fact of Prime Minister Pitt the Elder?

Did you know that a Standard Poodle is so called because they were once an emblem on the French flag?

Did you know that film-maker Alfred Hitchcock was superstitious and avoided making any film with only 11 named characters?

Did you know that the fastest stagecoach between Birmingham and London in the eighteenth century took only four hours?

Did you know that most physicists are unsure about the number of zeros in a Tera-

Did you know that an octave in medieval France covered nine tones, not eight?

Did you know that one twelfth of a pint is properly called an Apostle?