1,423 QI Facts To Bowl You Over

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Page 1, Position 2: 1 in 4 Americans didn’t read a book last year.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/one-four-americans-didnt-read-book-last-year-180960340/
Page 1, Position 3: A book by George H. W. Bush’s dog spent 23 weeks on the US bestseller list.: https://www.amazon.com/Millies-Book-Dictated-Barbara-Bush/dp/0688040330
Page 1, Position 4: Theresa May owns more than 100 cookbooks.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/theresa-may-who-is-the-woman-bidding-to-be-the-next-tory-leader/
Page 2, Position 1: John Bercow MP , Speaker of the House of Commons, has a cat called Order.: http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/02/why-john-bercow-row-really-about-parliament-itself
Page 2, Position 2: There are 125,000 stray cats in Istanbul.: http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21718417-turkish-affection-street-cats-and-dogs-has-blossomed-onlineand-occasionally-pits-local?fsrc=gnews
Page 2, Position 3: The average Australian cat eats more fish per year than the average Australian.: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/cats-eating-into-world-fish-stocks-20080825-425x.html
Page 2, Position 4: Cuttlefish have three hearts.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/weird-animal-hearts?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=f61668c58b-Newsletter_2_15_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-f61668c58b-63261525&ct=t(Newsletter_2_15_17)&mc_cid=f61668c58b&mc_eid=1968599da9
Page 3, Position 1: The North American mosquito fish can count up to four.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/3326801/Fish-can-count-to-four-but-no-higher.html
Page 3, Position 2: Fish can see 70 times further in air than in water.: https://phys.org/news/2017-03-vision-limbs-fish-million-years.html
Page 3, Position 3: Golden-winged warblers can detect tornadoes from 560 miles away.: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/18/birds-storm-infrasound-warblers
Page 3, Position 4: 35 tornadoes are reported in Britain each year.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1a15c0b0-39ab-11e7-8c42-97760aa22c36
Page 4, Position 1: In 1973, the entire Internet consisted of only 43 computers.: http://qz.com/860873/a-1973-map-of-the-internet-charted-by-darpa/
Page 4, Position 2: iPhones in Venezuela cost the equivalent of £80,000 each.: https://www.theatlas.com/charts/rJwXTv98g
Page 4, Position 3: Indonesia has a volcano that emits blue flames.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/01/140130-kawah-ijen-blue-flame-volcanoes-sulfur-indonesia-pictures/
Page 4, Position 4: Iceland has more volcanoes than footballers.: http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/england-vs-iceland-gary-lineker-euro-2016-defeat-worst-in-our-history-alan-shearer-wants-england-job-a7106856.html
Page 5, Position 1: More than half of the Earth’s surface is not subject to any nation’s laws.: http://www.vocativ.com/397787/deep-sea-protection/
Page 5, Position 2: It is illegal to sell Stilton cheese made in the village of Stilton.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24650468
Page 5, Position 3: In northern Italy, cheese is acceptable as security on a bank loan.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2017/04/17/this-bank-will-take-cheese-as-collateral/?utm_term=.79c810241342
Page 5, Position 4: An Italian estate agent was the inspiration for the handsome, sadistic hero of Fifty Shades of Grey.: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/mysterious-50-shades-character-christian-grey-based-italian-real-estate-agent-article-1.1608166
Page 6, Position 1: The film of Fifty Shades of Grey was banned in Cambodia because it depicted ‘insane romance’.: https://www.cambodiadaily.com/archives/50-shades-of-grey-banned-for-being-too-sexy-77906/
Page 6, Position 2: North Korea banned the disaster movie 2012 in case it jinxed the year 2012.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/7526951/North-Korea-fears-2012-disaster-film-will-thwart-rise-as-superpower.html
Page 6, Position 3: In French, Jaws became ‘The Teeth of the Sea’.: http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/g18755/20-movie-titles-that-got-lost-in-translation/?slide=9
Page 6, Position 4: The spiders used in Spider-Man and Arachnophobia were social huntsman spiders and completely harmless.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delena_cancerides
Page 7, Position 1: Spiders tune their webs like guitars.: http://gizmodo.com/spiders-tune-their-webs-like-guitar-strings-1786323021
Page 7, Position 2: Every year, spiders consume more food than whales.: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/all-the-worlds-spiders-eat-as-much-prey-as-all-the-worlds-whales/
Page 7, Position 3: Ogre-faced spiders attract prey with their excrement.: https://australianmuseum.net.au/net-casting-spiders
Page 7, Position 4: In 2017, Australian scientists discovered 50 new species of spider in one 10-day research trip.: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/11/fifty-new-species-of-spider-discovered-in-far-north-australia
Page 8, Position 1: 10% of spiders are missing at least one of their legs.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/06/110603-spiders-spare-legs-webs-science-animals/
Page 8, Position 2: In India, termites’ jaws were once used to close wounds.: Planet Earth 2
Page 8, Position 3: In Brazil, fish skin is used to bandage burns.: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-brazil-burns-idUSKBN18L1WH
Page 8, Position 4: The NHS costs the UK more than £116 billion a year.: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/about/Pages/overview.aspx
Page 9, Position 1: The British eat more onions than the French.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30549150
Page 9, Position 2: Ancient Egyptian priests were not allowed to eat onions in case it boosted their libido.: Alan Davidson, Oxford Companion to Food
Page 9, Position 3: The average person has sex 5,778 times in a lifetime.: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/how-may-times-you-have-sex-in-a-lifetime-study_uk_57f624ede4b00df730dc0379
Page 9, Position 4: Nicknames for 19th-century sex positions included The Ordinary, The Spiky Chair and The View of the Low Countries.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ChEGzPECulUC&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=_dog-fashion+flying”,&source=bl&ots=nQajQjKKLb&sig=DA-xdYRtHp3WyCpxe1S_5AkvVFw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjYwdK40Y_SAhUhAcAKHU4UBt8Q6AEILTAG#v=onepage&q=countries&f=false_
Page 10, Position 1: A sex manual in Qing dynasty China outlined 48 different ways to fondle a mutilated foot.: http://gbtimes.com/life/foot-binding-classy-sexy-and-extremely-painful
Page 10, Position 2: Musical theatre is the genre of music least likely to be played in the bedroom.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38918963
Page 10, Position 3: In 1917, P. G. Wodehouse had five musicals on Broadway at the same time.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/93fddd44-e727-11e6-a93a-4fa396e7e4ed
Page 10, Position 4: Ostentation funk is a Brazilian musical genre that celebrates the middle-class lifestyle.: https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/iburev/v25y2016i3p633-645.html
Page 11, Position 1: 40% of working Britons have less than £100 in savings.: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/saving/article-3813659/16-million-people-working-age-100-savings-study-shows.html
Page 11, Position 2: 1.7 million Britons haven’t got a bank account.: http://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-banks-exclusion-idUKKBN16W001
Page 11, Position 3: The chief economist at the Bank of England has never owned a credit card.: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/aug/28/property-is-better-bet-than-a-pension-says-bank-of-england-economist
Page 11, Position 4: The Pope doesn’t know how to use a computer.: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pope-bible-idUKKBN16C0J9
Page 12, Position 1: Westminster Abbey has a cleric called Canon Ball.: http://www.westminster-abbey.org/press/news/2016/may/new-canon-steward-appointed
Page 12, Position 2: The head of the UK police task force on knife crime is called Alfred Hitchcock.: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/28/beyond-the-blade-the-truth-about-knife-in-britain
Page 12, Position 3: The man who holds the British record for summiting Everest is a Mr K. Cool.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/nepal/articles/Everest-Sixty-fascinating-facts/
Page 12, Position 4: IKEA sofas have Swedish names, its rugs have Danish names and its beds have Norwegian names.: https://qz.com/896146/how-ikea-names-its-products-the-curious-taxonomy-behind-billy-poang-malm-kallax-and-rens/
Page 13, Position 1: Norwegian passports display the aurora borealis under a UV light.: ttps://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/nov/17/norway-new-passport-design
Page 13, Position 2: You can be blocked from getting a Swiss passport if your neighbours find you too annoying.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/switzerland-deny-passport-dutch-vegan-anti-cowbell-nancy-holten-animal-rights-annoying-a7520991.html
Page 13, Position 3: Horses competing in the Olympics have their own passports and fly business class.: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-08-08/how-do-horses-get-to-the-olympics
Page 13, Position 4: A beer tap on an aeroplane would dispense only foam.: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2016/07/08/klm-airlines-launching-worlds-first-on-tap-draught-beer-on-flights.html
Page 14, Position 1: The world’s most popular beer is called Snow and is virtually unknown outside China.: http://uk.businessinsider.com/10-biggest-selling-beer-brands-globally-2016-5/#3-bud-light-global-beer-volume-market-share-25-8
Page 14, Position 2: The most common job in the UK is ‘manager’.: http://www.aboutmybusiness.co.uk/top-jobs-data.php
Page 14, Position 3: In 2016, a London company advertised for an ‘emoji translator’.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/12/13/emoji-translator-wanted-london-company-advertises-first-kind/
Page 14, Position 4: In 2017, the US Secret Service advertised for a ‘social media sarcasm spotter’.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27711109
Page 15, Position 1: If you blend 25 random pictures from the Internet, the result will be orange.: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/the-color-of-every-photo-on-the-internet-blended-together-is-orange/378614/
Page 15, Position 2: ‘International orange’ is the specific shade of orange used for NASA spacesuits, the Tokyo Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge.: http://www.livescience.com/32618-why-are-astronauts-spacesuits-orange.html
Page 15, Position 3: Saturn’s North Pole is blue.: ttp://gizmodo.com/oh-my-god-look-at-saturns-north-pole-1793887193
Page 15, Position 4: NASA provided the first American woman in space with a specially designed make-up kit.: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/flats.html
Page 16, Position 1: American astronauts on the International Space Station can vote in elections by email.: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition18/vote.html
Page 16, Position 2: In 2015, President Obama made it legal for Americans to own asteroids.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/asteroid-mining-made-legal-after-barack-obama-gives-us-citizens-the-right-to-own-parts-of-celestial-a6750046.html
Page 16, Position 3: The smallest satellite ever made weighs less than a smartphone.: https://qz.com/index/987034/satellites-keep-getting-smaller-this-one-weighs-less-than-a-smartphone/
Page 16, Position 4: NASA spacesuits are called Extravehicular Mobility Units.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2129602-nasa-might-run-out-of-space-suits-before-it-quits-the-iss/
Page 17, Position 1: Chocolate, salmon and whisky are the UK’s top three food and drink exports.: https://www.fdf.org.uk/news.aspx?article=7812
Page 17, Position 2: In January 1205, it was so cold in England that wine and ale froze and were sold by weight, not volume.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gwMqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA199&dq
Page 17, Position 3: The US’s ninth-largest brewery has made a new beer from recycled sewage water.: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stone-brewing-toilet-to-tap_us_58cc60c7e4b0be71dcf4fc2f
Page 17, Position 4: In Finland, you can buy a party pack of 1,000 cans of beer.: http://time.com/money/4761382/finnish-brewery-nokina-panimo-1000-cans-keisari-lager/
Page 18, Position 1: In Sweden, you can buy toilet paper called Kräpp.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34975365
Page 18, Position 2: The original patent for the toilet-roll holder showed the paper hanging over the holder, not under.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3002112/Age-old-debate-toilet-paper-settled-patent-1891.html
Page 18, Position 3: Post-it notes should be peeled with the sticky strip vertical, not horizontal.: http://twentytwowords.com/everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-peeling-post-it-notes-is-wrong/
Page 18, Position 4: Wrapping paper is only 100 years old.: http://theweek.com/articles/455250/who-invented-wrapping-paper
Page 19, Position 1: 1 in 100 Americans work for Walmart.: https://qz.com/924056/walmart-wmt-is-the-largest-private-employer-in-19-states/
Page 19, Position 2: FTSE 100 CEOs make more money in two and a half days than the average worker makes in a year.: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jan/04/uk-bosses-will-make-more-by-midday-than-workers-will-earn-all-year-fat-cat-wednesday?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Page 19, Position 3: Only 4.2% of Fortune 500 companies are run by women.: https://qz.com/925821/how-rare-are-female-ceos-only-4-2-of-fortune-500-companies-are-run-by-women/
Page 19, Position 4: Men appear in the newspapers three times as often as women and have done so since 1800.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4105410/How-pop-stars-overtook-politicians-AI-finds-cultural-shifts-hidden-British-newspapers-1800-1950.html
Page 20, Position 1: During the Second World War, Women’s Institutes played ‘Pin the Moustache on Hitler’.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mmSa-SDb0tcC&pg=PT91&lpg=PT91&dq
Page 20, Position 2: In the Second World War, it was illegal to post knitting patterns abroad in case they contained coded messages.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/knitting-spies-wwi-wwii
Page 20, Position 3: In 1857, British officials were convinced Indian villagers were passing secret messages hidden in chapattis.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapati_Movement
Page 20, Position 4: The first editorial assistant to work on the Oxford English Dictionary was sacked for industrial espionage.: https://blog.oup.com/2017/03/making-oxford-english-dictionary/
Page 21, Position 1: My Adventures as a Spy, by Lord Baden-Powell, has a chapter on ‘The Value of Being Stupid’.: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/07/10/robert-baden-powells-entomological-intrigues/
Page 21, Position 2: Secret agents have to be trained to forget their advanced driving courses.: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Tom Marcus
Page 21, Position 3: The CIA uses board games to train spies.: s: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/03/the-cia-uses-board-games-to-train-officers-and-i-got-to-play-them/
Page 21, Position 4: The CIA Museum in Langley , Virginia, is not open to the public.: s: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/cia-museum?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=120fe570c4-Newsletter_3_11_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-120fe570c4-63261525&ct=t(Newsletter_3_11_17)&mc_cid=120fe570c4&mc_eid=1968599da9
Page 22, Position 1: In the First World War, battlefield observation stations were hidden inside trees.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274260/The-Armys-special-branch-How-bizarre-fake-spy-trees-appeared-mans-land-WWI.html
Page 22, Position 2: The oak is the national tree of Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, France, Germany , Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia and the UK.: The Long, Long Life of Trees by Fiona Stafford.
Page 22, Position 3: There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way.: http://www.snopes.com/are-there-more-trees-on-earth-than-there-are-stars-in-the-milky-way/
Page 22, Position 4: 1% of all the timber sold in the world is bought by IKEA.: https://gizmodo.com/ikea-uses-a-staggering-one-percent-of-the-worlds-wood-677540490
Page 23, Position 1: 12% of all the iron in Britain in the 1780s was cast by one man – John ‘Iron Mad’ Wilkinson.: https://gizmodo.com/ikea-uses-a-staggering-one-percent-of-the-worlds-wood-677540490
Page 23, Position 2: One-third of entrepreneurs think their chance of failing is zero.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Pg2rAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq=One-third+of+entrepreneurs+think+their+chance+of+failing+is+zero.&source=bl&ots=pl7jSXqoKu&sig=Fp-LcwpphcRe_bZwCrvB5gjaVjo&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFudv3zKbUAhVIZFAKHbaDBTUQ6AEILTAA#v=onepage&q=One-third%20of%20entrepreneurs%20think%20their%20chance%20of%20failing%20is%20zero.&f=false
Page 23, Position 3: ‘Entopreneurs’ are people who farm new types of edible insect.: http://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/For-growing-numbers-eating-insects-is-Bugsolutely-fine?page=2
Page 23, Position 4: Minecraft is used to pitch for business deals.: http://mashable.com/2017/02/06/tesla-gigafactory-2-minecraft-lithuania/#xyGoygkDtSqk
Page 24, Position 1: After shaking hands, most people unwittingly sniff their fingers.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27070-after-handshakes-we-sniff-peoples-scent-on-our-hand/
Page 24, Position 2: Octopuses smell with their arms.: http://aquarium.org/eight-great-reasons-sucker-octopuses/
Page 24, Position 3: Vegetarians smell nicer than people who eat meat.: New Scientist 18 Feb 17
Page 24, Position 4: Sniffing milk to test its freshness rather than going by the sell-by date would save 100 million pints a year.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7ac18b04-fc77-11e6-99c1-0f7da5c35c8f
Page 25, Position 1: In 1946, only 2% of British households had a fridge.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/excalibur-estate-prefab-homes?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=4c68c8699d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-4c68c8699d-63009445&ct=t(Newsletter_4_28_2017)&mc_cid=4c68c8699d&mc_eid=1e2fb84cd9
Page 25, Position 2: Octopuses spend 3% of their time tidying.: Octopus, Richard Schweid. Reaktion Books, 2014
Page 25, Position 3: Only 4% of people who try to quit smoking without help succeed.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07c6ll4
Page 25, Position 4: Only 5% of Chinese people have a passport.: http://www.economist.com/news/international/21601028-how-growing-chinese-middle-class-changing-global-tourism-industry-coming
Page 26, Position 1: 31% of Chinese tourists pack instant noodles when they travel.: https://qz.com/802004/31-of-chinese-tourists-pack-instant-noodles-when-they-travel-an-alibaba-baba-survey-shows/
Page 26, Position 2: The ancient Chinese could count up to a million on their hands.: The Universal History of Numbers; From Prehistory to the Invention of the Computer, George Ifrah (Harvill Press,1998)
Page 26, Position 3: Six million years ago, otters were bigger than leopards.: https://qz.com/893494/scientists-discovered-a-110-pound-otter-that-lived-6-2-million-years-ago-in-china/
Page 26, Position 4: An analysis of eight million books published between 1776 and 2009 found that Britons were happiest in 1957.: The Week 28.1.17 p6
Page 27, Position 1: In 1957, the US air force flew around the world to show they could bomb anywhere they wanted.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1957-us-flew-jet-around-world-prove-it-could-drop-nuclear-bomb-anywhere-180961769/?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=socialmedia
Page 27, Position 2: More than 2,400 nuclear bombs have been detonated since 1945.: s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGFkw0hzW1c
Page 27, Position 3: It will be another 500 years before the Somme is free of bombs.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36683448
Page 27, Position 4: On 16 March 1945, bombs dropped by the British on Würzburg, Germany , destroyed 90% of the buildings in 20 minutes.: http://www.historyandheadlines.com/march-16-1945-british-bombers-destroy-90-wurzburg-20-minutes/
Page 28, Position 1: 90% of Vietnamese share just 14 surnames.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nguyen-name-common-vietnam?mc_cid=888c7ea70d&mc_eid=1e2fb84cd9
Page 28, Position 2: 90% of lobsters escape from lobster traps.: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a26038/the-blood-of-the-crab/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 28, Position 3: 90% of film critics are male.: https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2017/may/11/jessica-chastain-on-miss-sloane-why-we-need-more-female-film-critics-video
Page 28, Position 4: 90% of world trade is carried by ship.: http://www.ics-shipping.org/shipping-facts/shipping-and-world-trade
Page 29, Position 1: The world’s heaviest aeroplane weighs as much as the statue Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya
Page 29, Position 2: Until 1970, United Airlines had ‘men only’ flights serving steaks, brandy and cigars.: http://theweek.com/speedreads/557710/united-airlines-used-offer-menonly-flights
Page 29, Position 3: French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen drank brandy between sets but won 98% of her games.: s: http://viewfromthewing.boardingarea.com/2015/05/27/united-airlines-men-only-executive-service/
Page 29, Position 4: Emma Martina Luigia Morano, the world’s oldest person when she died at 117, outlived 90 Italian governments.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39610937
Page 30, Position 1: In 2017, a Brazilian great-grandmother discovered the figure of St Anthony that she’d prayed to for years was actually an elf from The Lord of the Rings.: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/grandma-prays-daily-to-lord-of-the-rings-figure-thinking-it-is-a-saint-a3434591.html
Page 30, Position 2: Facebook uses The Lord of the Rings to teach its software how to think.: http://uk.businessinsider.com/facebook-lord-of-the-rings-teach-memory-network-2015-11?r=US&IR=T
Page 30, Position 3: 25% of Americans think God decides who wins the Super Bowl.: : http://www.prri.org/research/poll-super-bowl-women-sports-god-athletes-marijuana/?ex_cid=SigDig
Page 30, Position 4: A ticket to the first Super Bowl cost $12; today’s tickets cost up to $3,000.: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2016/02/02/10-things-to-know-about-the-money-in-super-bowl-50/#2eb11af73bda
Page 31, Position 1: One side of the new £1 coin was designed by a 15-year-old.: s: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ccba1ca0-face-11e6-a6f0-cb4e831c1cc0
Page 31, Position 2: The first Christmas stamp in the UK was designed by a six-year-old.: Western Daily Press, 13 Dec 16
Page 31, Position 3: Santa Claus’s first commercial appearance was in a 1923 advert for ginger beer.: http://blog.inkyfool.com/2016_02_01_archive.html
Page 31, Position 4: To visit every child in the world Santa would need to travel at 3,000 times the speed of sound.: The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus, Hannah Fry
Page 32, Position 1: 92% of shopping-mall Santas have had their beard pulled to see if it was real.: http://www.discoversanta2016.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-Red-Suit-Survey-Results..pdf
Page 32, Position 2: 30% of shopping-mall Santas have been urinated on by a child.: http://www.discoversanta2016.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2015-Red-Suit-Survey-Results..pdf
Page 32, Position 3: Leopard urine smells like popcorn.: https://www.earthtouchnews.com/in-the-field/in-the-field/a-live-safari-so-real-you-can-almost-smell-the-leopard-urine/
Page 32, Position 4: The Romans used urine to clean their teeth.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/from-gunpowder-to-teeth-whitener-the-science-behind-historic-uses-of-urine-442390/
Page 33, Position 1: Oxford University’s first professor of chemistry thought fossils were frozen urine.: http://www.oum.ox.ac.uk/learning/pdfs/plot.pdf
Page 33, Position 2: If you pick up a desert tortoise, it can urinate itself to death.: https://www.desertmuseum.org/kids/oz/long-fact-sheets/Desert%20Tortoise.php
Page 33, Position 3: Most of the white sand in the Caribbean is made of parrotfish droppings.: http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-142-the-15-most-influential-things-you-never-knew-existed/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-weekly-20170705
Page 33, Position 4: Kangaroos keep cool by licking their forearms.: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/resources/highschool/chemmatters/past-issues/archive-2013-2014/animal-survival-in-extreme-temperatures.html
Page 34, Position 1: Birds can tell what the speed limits are on roads.: http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/4/3/161040
Page 34, Position 2: The French air force has a squad of golden eagles, trained to hunt down drones.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/18/french-air-force-turns-to-eagles-to-fight-terror-drone-threat/
Page 34, Position 3: Dragonflies can be used as drones by fitting them with tiny backpacks.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/turning-dragonflies-drones-180962097/
Page 34, Position 4: Japanese scientists have invented a robot bee.: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-10/tiny-drones-mimic-bees/8258858
Page 35, Position 1: The White House only got the ability to print double-sided in 2016.: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/us/politics/technology-upgrades-get-white-house-out-of-the-20th-century.html?_r=1
Page 35, Position 2: Lyndon B. Johnson had a nozzle fitted to his shower in the White House that fired water at his genitals.: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/03/ldb-white-house-shower
Page 35, Position 3: Donald Trump presses a red button on his desk when he wants the White House butler to bring him a Diet Coke.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-oval-office-desk-red-button-butler-coke-white-house-us-president-a7703056.html
Page 35, Position 4: Domino’s customers can place an order by tweeting a pizza emoji.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/11601989/Now-you-can-order-Dominos-by-tweeting-a-pizza-emoji.html
Page 36, Position 1: The world’s largest pizza was twice the size of a tennis court.: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-pizza
Page 36, Position 2: From 1974 to 1992, a third of all tennis Grand Slams were won by Swedish men; today, there are none in the top 150.: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/07/sports/tennis/no-end-in-sight-for-the-slide-in-swedish-tennis.html
Page 36, Position 3: A Swede born with ‘a silver spoon in their mouth’ is said to have ‘slid in on a shrimp sandwich’.: http://blog.ted.com/40-idioms-that-cant-be-translated-literally/
Page 36, Position 4: The Polish equivalent of ‘Were you born yesterday?’ is ‘Did you fall from a Christmas tree?’: http://blog.ted.com/40-idioms-that-cant-be-translated-literally/
Page 37, Position 1: The money spent on Christmas presents in the UK could fund the NHS from Boxing Day to 12 February.: The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus, Hannah Fry
Page 37, Position 2: Christmas crackers were originally called ‘bangs of expectation’.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/history-of-christmas-facts-story-1488046
Page 37, Position 3: The first Christmas tree erected in Trafalgar Square was transported at night because it exceeded the legal weight limits on British roads in daytime.: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19471219/104/0004
Page 37, Position 4: In the Australian outback, there is a road used for testing supercars that has no speed limit.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37283797
Page 38, Position 1: Potholes in roads in 19th-century Argentina were filled with surplus sheep’s heads.: Offal - Gourmet Cookery From Head to Tail" by Jana Allen and Margaret Gin:
Page 38, Position 2: In 19th-century America, roads were paved with oyster shells.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-voluminous-shell-heaps-hidden-in-plain-sight-all-over-nyc
Page 38, Position 3: An oyster thief in 19th-century London called Dando would eat dozens of oysters, then abscond without paying.: Oyster, Rebecca Stott
Page 38, Position 4: The Oyster card was designed by Saatchi & Saatchi.: Saatchi.
Page 39, Position 1: Wig-snatching was a common crime in 18th-century England.: ______ http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-elaborate-wigsnatching-schemes-of-the-18th-century
Page 39, Position 2: In 2014, German police issued a fine to a one-armed cyclist for cycling with one arm.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/german-police-apologise-for-fining-onearmed-cyclist-for-riding-his-bike-with-only-one-arm-9578923.html
Page 39, Position 3: The Olympic Village for the 1980 Winter Games in Upstate New York is now a prison.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-1980-olympic-village-now-prison-180960161/
Page 39, Position 4: South Korean sniffer dogs sold to the Russian police in Siberia have proved to be useless because they don’t like the cold.: http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0842-failed-cloned-dogs-no-use-to-law-enforcement-because-they-dont-obey-orders-and-hate-cold/
Page 40, Position 1: More than a third of the 8.5 million dogs in Britain are obese.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/21/smart-collar-can-track-pets-health-exercise-habits/
Page 40, Position 2: In Taiwan, it is illegal to walk a dog by attaching its lead to a car or motorbike.: s: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/20adb076-1f53-11e7-ab8a-bed946da5aa3
Page 40, Position 3: Ships are not classified as abandoned if there is a dog or a cat onboard.: https://twitter.com/SocialHistoryOx/status/821731032877633537
Page 40, Position 4: 10,000 shipping containers are lost from ships every year.: http://www.yachtingworld.com/comment/shipping-containers-lost-at-sea-61867
Page 41, Position 1: The largest cruise ships have a greater population than the City of London.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/what-happens-when-you-flush-the-loo-on-a-cruise-ship-/?WT.mc_id=e_DM334542&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Tra_New_05Feb&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DM334542&noLightbox=true&email=travelcommerce_2017_02_05Edi_Tra_New_05FebDM334542&utm_content=Edi_Tra_New_05Feb
Page 41, Position 2: Dangerous maritime goods include pistachios, almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts, Brazil nuts and peanuts because they can all self-heat and spontaneously combust.: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5733837/when-pistachio-nuts-explode
Page 41, Position 3: There are more than 500 peanuts in the average jar of peanut butter.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/how-many-peanuts-go-regular-9681889
Page 41, Position 4: Prince Charles wants to reduce grey squirrel numbers by feeding them contraceptives hidden in Nutella.: s: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-prince-charles-battling-squirrels-using-contraceptives-and-lot-nutella-180962302/
Page 42, Position 1: Tanzanians scare off elephants by bombarding them with condoms filled with chilli powder.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/08/18/saving-elephants-may-depend-on-scaring-them-with-chili-powder-filled-condoms/
Page 42, Position 2: To treat mites, beekeepers dust their bees with sugar.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3LwVwkzjyA
Page 42, Position 3: Honeybees ‘whoop’ when they bump into each other.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2121275-honeybees-let-out-a-whoop-when-they-bump-into-each-other/
Page 42, Position 4: Bees can be taught to play football.: http://theconversation.com/we-taught-bees-to-play-football-so-we-could-learn-about-their-brains-73485
Page 43, Position 1: Apes are the only animals that need to be taught how to swim.: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170320-the-cruel-experiments-that-revealed-most-mammals-can-swim?ocid=fbatl
Page 43, Position 2: The Mola mola is known as the sunfish in English and the moonfish in Russian.: Google Translate
Page 43, Position 3: The first treadmill on the International Space Station was ejected into space and burned up in the atmosphere.: http://www.space.com/21516-space-station-treadmill-trash.html
Page 43, Position 4: Treadmills were once the harshest punishment short of the death penalty .: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/a-machine-that-used-to-be-considered-punishment-is-now-a-35-billion-industry/2017/01/31/c872ceba-c619-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.fb53c31ed1d8
Page 44, Position 1: 60% of the world’s selfie deaths take place in India.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/news/more-than-half-of-all-selfie-deaths-occur-in-one-country/
Page 44, Position 2: Mahatma Gandhi Pires, Marlon Brando da Silveira, John Lennon Silva Santos and Yago Pikachu are all Brazilian footballers.: http://www.hindustantimes.com/football/from-pikachu-to-john-lennon-a-list-of-brazilian-footballers-with-bizzare-names/story-qlYh2TTkwHmTWgTWB9yMvI.html
Page 44, Position 3: North Korea is a hereditary Marxist monarchy.: https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721146-donald-trump-grapples-his-trickiest-task-how-deal-worlds-most-dangerous-regime
Page 44, Position 4: The Indonesian flag is the same as the Polish flag upside down.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Indonesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Poland
Page 45, Position 1: Polish is the second most common language spoken in the UK.: http://imgur.com/a/sONSR#gEwExhL
Page 45, Position 2: A clock’s second hand is really its third hand.: A Word A Day
Page 45, Position 3: All mammals, regardless of size, take 12 seconds to defecate.: http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/27/your-average-poo-takes-12-seconds-in-order-to-protect-you-from-predators-6600489/
Page 45, Position 4: The US State Department is located in Foggy Bottom.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foggy_Bottom
Page 46, Position 1: Eight billion particles of fog can fit into a teaspoon.: Calculation by Head Elf, James Harkin http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/clouds.htm
Page 46, Position 2: China’s Er Wang Dong cave is so big it has its own weather system.: https://weather.com/slideshows/news/china-cave-weather-20131002
Page 46, Position 3: Lightning heats the surrounding air to temperatures five times hotter than the surface of the Sun.: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/lightning/
Page 46, Position 4: When it gets hot, normally carnivorous tadpoles become vegetarian.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161103115201.htm
Page 47, Position 1: The world’s smallest frog is the size of a housefly .: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120111-smallest-frogs-vertebrates-new-species-science-animals/
Page 47, Position 2: The world’s tiniest reptile is a chameleon the size of an ant.: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170703-the-chameleon-the-size-of-an-ant
Page 47, Position 3: In 2016, a new species of ant was discovered after it was vomited up by a frog.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/frogs-ants-vomits-new-species/
Page 47, Position 4: Nymphister kronaueri is a beetle whose camouflage makes it look like an ant’s bottom.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2120872-new-beetle-species-bites-army-ants-butt-and-hitches-a-ride/
Page 48, Position 1: In 2004, a pine tree planted in memory of George Harrison died after an infestation of beetles.: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-george-harrison-tree-beetles-replant-20150225-story.html
Page 48, Position 2: Natural history museums use teams of beetles to clean the flesh off specimens.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/68184/beetles-work-natural-history-museums
Page 48, Position 3: Caterpillars contain more protein than dung beetles.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-22570121
Page 48, Position 4: John Adams, second president of the US, liked to inspect London’s dung.: http://arnoldia.arboretum.harvard.edu/pdf/articles/2002-61-4-john-adams-farmer-and-gardener.pdf
Page 49, Position 1: Richard Nixon once ordered a nuclear strike on North Korea when drunk.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38651623
Page 49, Position 2: In 1987, Richard Nixon’s wife predicted that Donald Trump would one day become the president.: http://www.spiritualnorth.com/blog/nixon-1987-letter-to-trump-youll-be-a-winner
Page 49, Position 3: Donald Trump uses double-sided sticky tape to hold his tie in place.: http://www.esquire.com/style/news/a51174/donald-trump-tapes-his-tie/
Page 49, Position 4: Calvin Coolidge had two pet lions called Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau.: http://digital.vpr.net/post/calvin-coolidges-fiscal-legacy#stream/0
Page 50, Position 1: Aged 14, Fidel Castro wrote to President Roosevelt to ask for $10.: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/09/my-good-friend-roosvelt.html
Page 50, Position 2: The US Treasury has a ‘Conscience Fund’ for voluntary donations from people feeling guilty about cheating on their taxes.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscience_Fund
Page 50, Position 3: Collectively, Americans take 300,000 years to do their tax returns every year.: https://qz.com/953556/americans-spend-more-time-every-year-doing-their-taxes-than-playing-golf-and-golf-takes-ages/
Page 50, Position 4: A 17th-century Scottish tax on having sex out of wedlock was called ‘buttock mail’.: Word Drops, Paul Anthony Jones, pg. 301
Page 51, Position 1: Grooflins is Scots for flat on one’s face.: Pocket Scots Dictionary Ed Iseabail Macleod, Ruth Martin, Pauline Cairns (Aberdeen University Press, 1988) p91
Page 51, Position 2: Whummle is Scots for head over heels.: Pocket Scots Dictionary Ed Iseabail Macleod, Ruth Martin, Pauline Cairns (Aberdeen University Press, 1988) p345
Page 51, Position 3: Wabbit is Scots for exhausted or slightly unwell.: https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/638251825678942209?lang=en
Page 51, Position 4: Snoozle is Scots for poke with the nose.: Pocket Scots Dictionary Ed Iseabail Macleod, Ruth Martin, Pauline Cairns (Aberdeen University Press, 1988) p266
Page 52, Position 1: Hitting the snooze button makes you more tired during the day.: https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2016/jan/26/five-tips-start-day-well
Page 52, Position 2: People who play the didgeridoo snore less.: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/12/23/1537183.htm
Page 52, Position 3: Vitamin B6 helps you remember your dreams.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11883552
Page 52, Position 4: Black Americans don’t sleep as well as white Americans.: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-reiss-race-sleep-gap-20170423-story.html
Page 53, Position 1: In 2017, six Chinese officials were punished for falling asleep in a meeting about how to motivate lazy bureaucrats.: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-corruption-dozing-idUSKBN15P09O
Page 53, Position 2: Inemuri, or falling asleep in public, is considered a sign of diligence in Japanese employees.: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/what-in-the-world/japan-inemuri-public-sleeping.html?_r=1
Page 53, Position 3: Japanese scientists have warned that people making the peace sign could have their fingerprints stolen.: https://phys.org/news/2017-01-japan-fingerprint-theft-peace.html
Page 53, Position 4: 30,000 napkins a month are stolen from Jamie Oliver’s restaurants.: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/oct/16/jamie-oliver-restaurant-napkins-stolen
Page 54, Position 1: A statue of Hercules in Arcachon, France, has had its penis stolen so often it’s been given a detachable one for ‘special occasions’.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/20/nude-hercules-statue-gets-removable-penis-for-special-events/
Page 54, Position 2: In 2012, thieves in the Czech Republic stole a 10-tonne railway bridge, claiming they were clearing the way for a cycle path.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9235705/Czech-metal-thieves-dismantle-10-ton-bridge.html
Page 54, Position 3: In 2008, thieves in Jamaica stole an entire beach.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/oct/21/jamaica
Page 54, Position 4: The Tamil word for ‘stealing a beach’ is manarkollai.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_theft
Page 55, Position 1: In 2017, an Irish beach that had been washed away in 1984 was returned by a freak tide.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/10/i-had-50-tourists-drive-here-born-again-irish-beach-dooagh-captures-worlds-attention
Page 55, Position 2: The Hebridean island of Barra has the only airport in the world that uses a beach as a runway.: http://www.hial.co.uk/barra-airport/airport-information/history-of-barra/
Page 55, Position 3: Qatar Airways allows up to six falcons to sit in Economy Class.: https://www.qatarairways.com/en-qa/baggage/animals.html
Page 55, Position 4: Planes carrying the Pope use the call sign ‘Shepherd One’.: http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/22/politics/pope-francis-shepherd-one-visit-united-states/index.html
Page 56, Position 1: ‘Playing chess with the Pope’ is an Icelandic euphemism for having a poo.: https://www.visindavefur.is/svar.php?id=6998
Page 56, Position 2: The Icelandic word used for Darth Vader translates as ‘Blackhead’.: http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/reykjavik-names-a-street-after-darth-vader-star-wars
Page 56, Position 3: From 1966 to 1987, Iceland banned TV on Thursdays, to encourage people to get out and socialise more.: http://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-should-know-about-iceland
Page 56, Position 4: 1% of the static on an untuned TV is radiation from the birth of the universe.: https://www.universetoday.com/25560/the-switch-to-digital-switches-off-big-bang-tv-signal/
Page 57, Position 1: The Milky Way produces nine trillion kilos of antimatter every second.: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/05/explaining-why-our-galaxy-produces-so-much-antimatter/
Page 57, Position 2: Exoplanet HAT-P-7b has clouds made of liquid rubies.: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/12/it-rains-rubies-and-sapphires-on-this-distant-jupiter-like-planet/
Page 57, Position 3: 29 of the 52 spacecraft sent to Mars have failed to reach their destination.: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everything-about-mars-is-the-worst/?ex_cid=SigDig
Page 57, Position 4: Saturn’s newest moon is called Peggy.: https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/14apr_newmoon
Page 58, Position 1: The ancient Egyptians had a hieroglyph for ‘meteorite’.: http://www.ironfromthesky.org/?page_id=2
Page 58, Position 2: If an asteroid hit the Earth, only 3% of people would be killed by the actual impact.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2122612-if-an-asteroid-hit-london-only-3-of-deaths-would-be-from-impact/
Page 58, Position 3: 25 million meteors fall to Earth every day.: https://www.wired.com/2017/01/bright-green-meteor-lights-mountains-india/
Page 58, Position 4: You can find micro-meteorites in the gutters of European cities.: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21711633-amateur-enthusiast-advances-planetary-science-finding-micrometeorites-city
Page 59, Position 1: Birds that live in the city start tweeting earlier to avoid rush hour.: https://qz.com/726926/like-people-birds-that-live-in-the-city-are-louder-meaner-and-more-stressed-out-than-their-country-cousins/
Page 59, Position 2: Male cockatoos use drum solos to attract mates.: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/28/cockatoos-impress-opposite-sex-phil-collins-style-drum-solos?mc_cid=2b08b02c4b&mc_eid=d3a1822159
Page 59, Position 3: In the 17th century, migrating birds were thought to go to the Moon for winter.: http://www.npr.org/2016/08/13/489883499/bird-myth-busters-do-birds-fly-to-the-moon-in-winter-and-other-unknowns
Page 59, Position 4: Cities are hotter from Monday to Friday and cooler at the weekend.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118700-big-cities-warm-up-during-the-week-as-commuters-flock-in/
Page 60, Position 1: Utepils is Norwegian for a beer enjoyed outside on a sunny day.: http://utepilsbrewing.com/2015/11/the-true-meaning-of-utepils/
Page 60, Position 2: Muckibus means ‘drunkenly sentimental’.: OED
Page 60, Position 3: Schnapsidee is German for an ingenious plan concocted while drunk.: https://digest.bps.org.uk/2016/01/28/there-are-at-least-216-foreign-words-for-positive-emotional-states-and-concepts-that-we-dont-have-in-english/
Page 60, Position 4: The German aristocrat who invented mulled wine also invented an aphrodisiac sorbet.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/25/german-archivists-discover-1844-recipe-for-love-sorbet/
Page 61, Position 1: Philematology is the study of kissing.: http://amjmed.org/science-of-kissing/
Page 61, Position 2: Your lips are 1,000 times more sensitive than your fingertips.: http://amjmed.org/science-of-kissing/
Page 61, Position 3: Ants communicate by sharing saliva.: http://www.livescience.com/57030-ants-swap-spit-to-communicate.html
Page 61, Position 4: Kissing under the mistletoe began between 1720 and 1784, but nobody knows exactly when.: A Christmas Cornucopia, Mark Forsyth
Page 62, Position 1: Victorian Christmas trees were topped with Union Jacks.: A Christmas Cornucopia, Mark Forsyth
Page 62, Position 2: The ‘mas’ in Christmas means ‘go away’.: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/201826495/where-do-christmas-traditions-come-from
Page 62, Position 3: 60% of the world’s Christmas decorations are made in a single town in China.: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2014/dec/19/santas-real-workshop-the-town-in-china-that-makes-the-worlds-christmas-decorations
Page 62, Position 4: For Christmas 2008, Becks bought Posh a $100,000 handbag.: http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/31-incredible-gifts-given-by-the-super-rich/ss-BBzIPXp?ocid=MSN_UK_NL_M_NO_14Apr17OM2-PID84960#image=24
Page 63, Position 1: Vanilla is more expensive than silver.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a98e6fd2-47c3-11e7-a901-fbc155c10c07
Page 63, Position 2: The Doge of Venice marries the sea once a year by throwing a ring into the water.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Aft4c9GauRsC&pg=PA1055&dq=crossing+equator+sacrifice&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxt93Jv-TQAhWCahoKHewjD7c4ChDoAQgvMAQ#v=onepage&q=crossing%20equator%20sacrifice&f=false
Page 63, Position 3: Italian scientists have grown strawberries in underwater greenhouses on the seabed.: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/aug/13/food-growing-underwater-sea-pods-nemos-garden-italy
Page 63, Position 4: Vanuatu has an underwater post office.: http://www.vanuatupost.vu/index.php/en/underwater-post
Page 64, Position 1: American Express used to be a delivery company .: https://secure.cmax.americanexpress.com/Internet/GlobalCareers/Staffing/Shared/Files/our_story_3.pdf
Page 64, Position 2: Shell used to sell shells.: http://www.shell.com/about-us/who-we-are/our-beginnings.html
Page 64, Position 3: Samsung began as a grocery store.: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40237632/ns/business-world_business/t/how-worlds-top-brands-got-started/#.WXdfhcmQyA8
Page 64, Position 4: Lamborghini started out making tractors.: https://www.lamborghini.com/en-en/brand/history
Page 65, Position 1: Drivers in Moscow spend 25% of their time in traffic jams.: http://m.dw.com/en/los-angeles-moscow-top-list-of-most-congested-cities/a-37628063?maca=en-standard_feed-en-9097-xml
Page 65, Position 2: Britain’s roads are in worse condition than those of Oman, Malaysia, Ecuador and Namibia.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/95087a14-f87a-11e6-a6f0-cb4e831c1cc0
Page 65, Position 3: The first car in Antarctica didn’t work because it kept overheating.: http://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/Ernest%20Shackleton_Nimrod_expedition.php
Page 65, Position 4: A car fuelled by the waste coffee produced by Caffè Nero in London in a year could go round the M25 3,689 times.: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/caff-nero-becomes-first-major-coffee-chain-to-convert-beans-into-fuel-a3463331.html
Page 66, Position 1: Voltaire drank 50 cups of coffee every day.: http://www.openculture.com/2015/03/philosophers-drinking-coffee.html
Page 66, Position 2: Bach wrote a cantata about coffee.: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/02/famous-coffee-drinkers_n_5358495.html
Page 66, Position 3: Liszt drank a bottle of cognac every day.: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/12/a-surprising-number-of-great-composers-were-fond-of-the-bottle-but-can-you-hear-it/
Page 66, Position 4: Kafka wanted to write budget travel guides but couldn’t find anyone to fund them.: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/dec/20/franz-kafka-hoped-to-write-budget-travel-guides
Page 67, Position 1: In 2017, a Kiwi tourist was detained in Kazakhstan because the immigration authorities refused to believe there was a country called New Zealand.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/05/tourist-claims-detained-kazakhstan-officials-refused-believe/
Page 67, Position 2: 1 in 3 parents allow their children to choose where to go on holiday.: http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articles/44837/kids-get-big-say-in-family-holiday-choices-finds-survey
Page 67, Position 3: 45% of British families with children communicate by text even when they’re all at home.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ca06a526-e027-11e6-b301-d3506ecf1753
Page 67, Position 4: Kindergarten children in Alaska are taught how to butcher a moose.: http://www.wideopenspaces.com/kindergarteners-alaska-learn-butcher-moose/?utm_source=Quartz+Morning+Brief&utm_campaign=a64fb08d18-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ff2527dbb-a64fb08d18-57548377
Page 68, Position 1: It is illegal in Saudi Arabia to name a child Sandi.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/03/16/why-did-saudi-arabia-ban-51-baby-names/?utm_term=.55a1293ef8ef
Page 68, Position 2: It is illegal in Sweden to name a child Veranda.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/03/16/why-did-saudi-arabia-ban-51-baby-names/?utm_term=.00c0e2b990f9
Page 68, Position 3: In 2008, a pair of twins in New Zealand were named Benson and Hedges.: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/01/world/asia/new-zealand-stange-baby-names/
Page 68, Position 4: Ed Sheeran can fit 55 Maltesers into his mouth.: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/3743661/watch-ed-sheeran-put-fifty-five-maltesers-in-his-mouth-at-once-in-new-carpool-karaoke/
Page 69, Position 1: The word ‘confetti’ comes from the Italian for ‘sugared almonds’.: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confetto
Page 69, Position 2: The US once required people to have blood tests before they could marry .: https://www.reference.com/science/were-blood-tests-required-before-marriage-16fa496b264f2110#
Page 69, Position 3: In Britain in the Second World War, there was a threefold increase in bigamy.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3j-kDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=world+war+two+bigamist+warning+civil+notice+marriage&source=bl&ots=Avk_Tr2fAU&sig=TW3dJGTWg0IqfHz0XKxPLrrT86w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj7jc_zs_7UAhXLh7QKHQhPDmsQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepage&q=world%20war%20two%20bigamist%20warning%20civil%20notice%20marriage&f=false
Page 69, Position 4: In Denmark, if you’re unmarried at 25, your friends will ambush you with a cinnamon shower.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/life/single-in-denmark-prepare-for-birthday-spice-attacks/
Page 70, Position 1: Chilli peppers taste milder in space than on Earth.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160719094751.htm
Page 70, Position 2: The synthetic drug spice was originally developed as a fertiliser for bonsai trees.: s: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/96907816-0c0f-11e7-a3d4-c0acbb3b985d
Page 70, Position 3: In 2017, the original Bramley apple tree was still living at 207 years old.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-36826038
Page 70, Position 4: Scientists have found a way to grow human ears on apples.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39108026
Page 71, Position 1: There is no such thing as a wild orange.: Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins
Page 71, Position 2: Orang-utans plan their journeys in advance and tell friends where they’re going.: http://www.livescience.com/39570-orangutans-plan.html
Page 71, Position 3: Hsing Hsing, an orang-utan in Perth Zoo, is attracted to Nicole Kidman.: http://www.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/perth-zoo-orangutan-has-kidman-fetish/news-story/1a52ba90f2399369b588349d84d419bd
Page 71, Position 4: Sandra, an orang-utan in Buenos Aires Zoo, is the first non-human to become a legal person.: http://www.wired.com/2014/12/orangutan-personhood
Page 72, Position 1: Three of the world’s rivers are legal persons: they have guardians and are treated as minors in court.: https://qz.com/940935/there-are-now-three-rivers-that-are-legally-people/
Page 72, Position 2: More than 90% of all jury trials in the world occur in the US.: https://www.britannica.com/topic/jury
Page 72, Position 3: US lawyers aren’t allowed to use the words ‘honey’ or ‘darling’ in court.: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/business/dealbook/aba-prohibits-sexual-harassment-joining-many-state-bars.html?_r=1
Page 72, Position 4: Swearing on the Bible is theologically problematic as the New Testament forbids the taking of oaths.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11455853/The-trouble-with-swearing-an-oath-on-a-holy-book.html
Page 73, Position 1: Swearing uses a different part of the brain to other speech.: What The F, Benjamin K Bergen
Page 73, Position 2: In the 14th century, the name Peter was a mild swear word.: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Pete&allowed_in_frame=
Page 73, Position 3: Brahms once got drunk and used a word so shocking it broke up the party and no one would repeat it.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4713910/Blue-eyed-boy-to-grumpy-old-man.html
Page 73, Position 4: Tolstoy wrote in his diary: ‘I’ve fallen in love or imagine I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don’t need at all.’: went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don‰Ûªt need at all.‰Ûª
Page 74, Position 1: The Roman consul Crassus loved his pet eel so much he bought it necklaces and earrings.: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/murenae.html
Page 74, Position 2: Tyrannosaurus rex had a sensitive nose it probably used for nuzzling.: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/30/tyrannosaurus-rex-was-a-sensitive-lover-new-dinosaur-discovery-suggests
Page 74, Position 3: The great grey shrike impales its prey on sharp thorns, then presents the ‘kebab’ to potential mates.: http://support.iucnredlist.org/updates/romantic-gifts-animal-kingdom
Page 74, Position 4: Madagascar hissing cockroaches can either grow big horns to fight for a mate or grow big testicles for mating. They can’t do both.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/gory-details-hissing-cockroach-testicles-evolution/
Page 75, Position 1: You aren’t allowed to warm your balls during a round of golf, but you can before you start.: http://www.golf.com/instruction/ask-rules-guy-ball-warmers-and-windmills
Page 75, Position 2: Golfers in Coober Pedy, Australia, use glow-in-the-dark balls because it’s so hot by day that everyone plays at night.: http://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/13173734/st-andrews-kooky-deal-opal-fields-golf-club
Page 75, Position 3: Burglars always knock on the door before breaking into a house.: http://www.kgw.com/news/investigations/we-asked-86-burglars-how-they-broke-into-homes/344213396
Page 75, Position 4: Houses in Vermont have windows that are slanted diagonally to stop witches getting in.: http://distractify.com/old-school/2014/10/21/very-superstitious-1197796927
Page 76, Position 1: Inuit people made windows from walrus penises.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cTfK0wGGt2YC&pg=PA230&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
Page 76, Position 2: The Queen has a personal bagpiper who plays outside her window for 15 minutes each morning.: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shortcuts/2013/dec/11/what-does-queens-warden-of-the-swans-do
Page 76, Position 3: The word ‘window’ replaced an Old English word that literally meant ‘eye-hole’.: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=window
Page 76, Position 4: The White House has 147 windows.: https://www.whitehouse.gov/about/inside-white-house
Page 77, Position 1: Richard Nixon’s chair was 2.5 inches higher than everyone else’s in the Cabinet Room.: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/donald-trump-has-spent-more-133000-taxpayers-money-furniture-four-months-1627462
Page 77, Position 2: A throttlebottom is an inept politician.: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/political-putdowns/throttlebottom
Page 77, Position 3: A quockerwodger was a 19th-century politician whose strings were pulled by someone else.: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/cue7o5a
Page 77, Position 4: Whipmegorum is a Scots word for a noisy quarrel about politics.: http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/whipmegmorum
Page 78, Position 1: Voice dystonia is the inability to speak to other people.: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-22/how-dilbert-s-scott-adams-got-hypnotized-by-trump?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 78, Position 2: Your inner monologue runs at 67 words per second.: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/figuring-out-how-and-why-we-talk-to-ourselves/508487/
Page 78, Position 3: Artificial speechgeneration software can learn to sing as well as a person in 35 minutes.: https://qz.com/958213/i-couldnt-tell-that-this-was-a-robot-singing-duke-ellingtons-signature-song/
Page 78, Position 4: One of the world’s first robots was Squee the Squirrel, built in 1951.: http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/squee-the-robot-squirrel/
Page 79, Position 1: CERN has an animal shelter for computer mice.: http://computer-animal-shelter.web.cern.ch/computer-animal-shelter/index.shtml
Page 79, Position 2: Malmö, Sweden, has two tiny shops for mice.: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/stores-restaurants-mice-sweden_us_584ae4fae4b0bd9c3dfc7975
Page 79, Position 3: Mice sigh up to 40 times an hour.: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/08/a-sighs-not-just-a-sigh-its-a-fundamental-life-sustaining-reflex
Page 79, Position 4: A Komodo dragon’s tongue can taste its prey from two and a half miles away.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/science/heres-what-makes-komodo-dragons-so-powerful_1/
Page 80, Position 1: Diners spend £2 more per head if a restaurant plays classical music instead of pop.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36424854
Page 80, Position 2: Listening to music can change the taste of wine and toffee.: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/mar/21/heard-it-through-the-grapevine-can-music-really-change-the-taste-of-wine?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=218418&subid=22528671&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Page 80, Position 3: ‘I Will Survive’, ‘Stayin’ Alive’ and ‘Another One Bites the Dust’ have the correct number of beats per minute to perform CPR to.: https://qz.com/936920/new-york-presbyterian-hospital-released-a-playlist-of-all-the-songs-to-which-you-can-do-cpr/
Page 80, Position 4: CPR is successful only 8% of the time.: https://qz.com/936920/new-york-presbyterian-hospital-released-a-playlist-of-all-the-songs-to-which-you-can-do-cpr/
Page 81, Position 1: You can make human heart tissue from spinach.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/human-heart-spinach-leaf-medicine-science/
Page 81, Position 2: Artificial blood vessels can be made with a candyfloss machine.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/75276/scientists-use-cotton-candy-machines-make-artificial-blood-vessels
Page 81, Position 3: Oxford University is developing artificial knees made from spider silk.: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/may/10/the-innovators-the-silk-road-to-reducing-knee-operations
Page 81, Position 4: Hummingbirds use spiders’ webs to glue their nests together.: http://www.worldofhummingbirds.com/nest.php
Page 82, Position 1: Male sparrows bring less food back to the nest if their partner has been unfaithful.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/31/birds-sense-if-partners-are-unfaithful-and-retaliate-by-providin/
Page 82, Position 2: It takes 60 nests’ worth of duck down to fill a duvet.: http://eiderdown.com/files/eider_article.pdf
Page 82, Position 3: 47 species of fungus live inside pillows.: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/07/health/bed-making-you-sick/index.html
Page 82, Position 4: April 1st is International Pillow Fight Day.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hundreds-gather-in-london-for-mass-pillow-fight-a7662191.html
Page 83, Position 1: The national sport of Turkey is oil wrestling.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_wrestling
Page 83, Position 2: New Mexico has an official state question: ‘Red or green?’: http://www.sos.state.nm.us/kids_corner/state_symbols.aspx#question
Page 83, Position 3: Swedish only became Sweden’s official language in 2009.: https://www.thelocal.se/20090701/20404
Page 83, Position 4: Only 7% of the Chinese can speak Chinese properly.: http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21708731-mandarin-becoming-worlds-most-commonly-spoken-language-it-contentious-home-let-not?fsrc=gnews
Page 84, Position 1: In 2010, Fiji lost its original Declaration of Independence and had to ask Britain for a photocopy.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11565853
Page 84, Position 2: In 1875, the Royal Navy erased 123 islands from their charts because they didn’t exist.: https://www.1843magazine.com/places/cartophilia/deleted-islands
Page 84, Position 3: In 2001, the AA had to pay £20 million after it was caught copying Ordnance Survey maps.: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/mar/06/andrewclark
Page 84, Position 4: Google Maps in India has Kashmir belonging to India. In Pakistan, it shows it as being disputed.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/08/google-maps-to-help-settle-afghanistan-pakistan-border-dispute
Page 85, Position 1: In 1983, the Spanish town of Lijar ended its 100-year war with France due to ‘the excellent attitude of the French’.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E_qS4RW5nw0C&pg=PT63&lpg=PT63&dq=%22excellent+attitude+of+the+French,%E2%80%9D%22&source=bl&ots=wlbPSIl7g6&sig=hhVO07uHyAhQiPWnJH8_KJpvz3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8qcLI8tjUAhUrJMAKHba6Dj8Q6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=%22excellent%20attitude%20of%20the%20French%2C%E2%80%9D%22&f=false
Page 85, Position 2: More people visit France than any other country on Earth.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/country-rankings-what-each-nation-is-best-at/france/
Page 85, Position 3: The happiest country in the world is Costa Rica.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/country-rankings-what-each-nation-is-best-at/costa-rica/
Page 85, Position 4: The friendliest country in the world is Iceland.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/thailand/articles/Thailand-20-fascinating-facts/
Page 86, Position 1: In Japan, police carry massive futons to roll up drunks in.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38365729
Page 86, Position 2: Korobikobou is Japanese police slang for deliberately bumping into a suspect and then arresting them for obstruction.: http://www.thedailybeast.com/japans-terrible-anti-terror-law-just-made-the-minority-report-reality?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
Page 86, Position 3: All Japanese police officers are expected to become a black belt in judo.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38365729
Page 86, Position 4: Police in Zambia are not allowed to marry foreigners.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-38718205
Page 87, Position 1: The neon flying squid is faster than Usain Bolt.: : https://qz.com/1008442/in-honor-of-cephalopod-week-here-are-eight-fantastic-facts-about-octopuses-and-their-ilk/
Page 87, Position 2: The scientific name for the black bee-fly is Anthrax anthrax.: https://apple.news/AZyyTO3epSWy3nwEeUKzFEw
Page 87, Position 3: The pom-pom crab carries sea anemones in its claws and waves them around when threatened.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/crabs-anemones-pom-pom-clones-fight/
Page 87, Position 4: A group of cockroaches is called an ‘intrusion’.: https://sciencebasedlife.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/what-do-you-call-a-group-of/
Page 88, Position 1: Slugs are twice as fast as snails.: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/green_room/2009/04/feeling_sluggish.html
Page 88, Position 2: Rats practise walking and running before they’re born.: New Scientist, 28 Jan 2017
Page 88, Position 3: At the first Olympics, athletes got a bronze medal just for taking part.: http://amhistory.si.edu/sports/exhibit/olympians/first/
Page 88, Position 4: The winner of the 1896 Olympic discus competition had never thrown a discus before.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1896_Summer_Olympics___Men%27s_discus_throw
Page 89, Position 1: Croquet was dropped as an Olympic sport after the 1900 games, when only one spectator turned up.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/a-machine-that-used-to-be-considered-punishment-is-now-a-35-billion-industry/2017/01/31/c872ceba-c619-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.fb53c31ed1d8
Page 89, Position 2: The Rio Olympics employed 75 lifeguards at the swimming events.: http://www.express.co.uk/sport/olympics/698096/rio-2016-olympics-lifeguard-swimming-useless-job
Page 89, Position 3: 600 million years ago, the Earth’s oceans were freshwater.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2130525-snowball-earth-melting-led-to-freshwater-ocean-2-kilometres-deep/
Page 89, Position 4: Swedish scientists have discovered that water is a combination of two distinct forms of liquid.: http://newatlas.com/stockholm-university-water-exists-two-liquid-states/50248/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=a00802ede1-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-a00802ede1-92793889
Page 90, Position 1: Dolphins provide babysitting services.: https://www.ted.com/talks/denise_herzing_could_we_speak_the_language_of_dolphins/transcript?language=en
Page 90, Position 2: Smooth-fan lobsters travel inside jellyfish and eat them as they go.: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/08/25/jellyfish-lobster/
Page 90, Position 3: Lobsters’ brains are the same size as the tip of a ballpoint pen.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WiikO3rMVDAC&pg=PA44&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false
Page 90, Position 4: Healthy human brains feel like warm scallops.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/article-1064889/Things-didnt-know-----Being-brain-surgeon.html#ixzz4VGd9OsXb
Page 91, Position 1: Your brain dries out as you age.: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/your-brain-food/201105/how-do-brains-age
Page 91, Position 2: The UK has four times as many people aged over 100 as it had 30 years ago.: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/21/number-people-over-100-fivefold-increase-statistics
Page 91, Position 3: An ‘oldster’ was a Royal Navy term for a midshipman of four years’ standing.: OED
Page 91, Position 4: The giant shipworm grows as tall as a 12-year-old child.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/929c1cd8-23ac-11e7-bc20-132b509ff5ce
Page 92, Position 1: In 2017, Doris Day discovered she was two years older than she thought she was.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/02/birthday-surprise-doris-day-discovers-95-two-years-older-thought/
Page 92, Position 2: Julius Caesar wanted to ban actors from holding public office.: SPQR by Mary Beard
Page 92, Position 3: In 168 bc, the only tradesmen in Rome who were not slaves were bakers.: http://www.bakers.co.uk/A-Brief-History/In-the-beginning.aspx
Page 92, Position 4: In 14th-century London, the Bakers Guild split up and formed two rival guilds: one for brown bread and one for white.: http://www.bakers.co.uk/A-Brief-History/Brown-Bakers.aspx
Page 93, Position 1: In Venezuela, 90% of all wheat must be made into bread rather than cakes or pastries.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/17/bakers-arrested-illegal-brownies-venezuela-bread-war
Page 93, Position 2: In Waitrose, it costs more to buy empty jam jars than ones with jam in.: s: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/13/jam-jars-becoming-preserve-weathy-waitrose-sells-empty-jars/
Page 93, Position 3: Houses in Britain numbered 13 cost £9,000 less than average.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38611142
Page 93, Position 4: Million Dollar Point is an area in the Pacific where the US army dumped all its equipment after the Second World War because it was cheaper than bringing it home.: http://www.airvanuatu.com/blog/underwater-history-lesson-million-dollar-point/
Page 94, Position 1: The sailfish can swim at 70 mph.: http://blog.nwf.org/2011/03/the-fascinating-things-about-creatures-that-swim/
Page 94, Position 2: Swordfish secrete oil from their noses to smooth their passage through the water.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/swordfish-secrete-oil-may-let-them-swim-faster-180959723
Page 94, Position 3: An oyster can filter 50 gallons of water a day.: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/04/30/oysters-more-effective-than-previously-believed-in-filtering-water/
Page 94, Position 4: Most fish food is made of fish.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_fish_feed
Page 95, Position 1: Fish sing the dawn chorus.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2106331-fish-recorded-singing-dawn-chorus-on-reefs-just-like-birds/
Page 95, Position 2: British children can be held responsible for crimes from the age of 10, but can’t own a goldfish until they’re 16.: Howard League for Penal Reform pamphlet, 2015
Page 95, Position 3: In medieval England, you could be made an outlaw if you failed to turn up to court five times in a row.: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/outlaws-outlawry-medieval-early-modern-england/
Page 95, Position 4: It is illegal in France to breed killer whales in captivity .: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/07/france-bans-breeding-killer-whales-captivity/
Page 96, Position 1: A pod of killer whales breathes in unison while asleep.: http://orcalab.org/orcas/resident-orcas/
Page 96, Position 2: The zombie worm lives and feeds on the bones of whales.: http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/26/zombie-worms-mate-inside-whale-bones/
Page 96, Position 3: The Swedish for ‘whale’ also means ‘election’.: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2016/05/21/gothenburgs-malm-whale/14637528003254
Page 96, Position 4: Parliamentary elections in India are three times as likely to be won by politicians convicted of serious crimes.: http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21716019-penchant-criminality-electoral-asset-india-worlds-biggest
Page 97, Position 1: Ochlocracy is democracy’s evil twin: rule by the mob.: OED
Page 97, Position 2: In seven US states, you can change your vote after you’ve cast it.: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/31/politics/changing-early-vote-cast/index.html
Page 97, Position 3: Pennsylvanian candidates in the 2016 US presidential election included Mickey Mouse, Wonder Woman, Harambe the Gorilla, Richard Nixon, We Deserve Better and Shoot Me Now.: http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/dissatisfied-lackawanna-county-residents-got-creative-with-write-in-votes-1.2119955
Page 97, Position 4: Nevada is the only state whose ballot papers have a ‘None of the above’ option.: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/not-fan-candidate-nevada-can-vote-none-candidates/
Page 98, Position 1: Scientists in Massachusetts have invented an AI machine that can see two seconds into the future.: https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/technology/deep-learning-predicts-future-n690851
Page 98, Position 2: Beijing has three million hens that are looked after by robot nannies.: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-12/china-tries-nanny-robots-to-keep-chickens-healthy
Page 98, Position 3: Dubai police have a Robocop.: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/worlds-first-robotic-cop-joins-dubai-police/burj2/slideshow/59253750.cms
Page 98, Position 4: The US Department of Defense still uses 8-inch floppy disks.: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/19/jared-kushner-technology-week-hell-yeah/
Page 99, Position 1: The first aircraft carriers were designed to carry hot-air balloons.: https://www.navalhistory.org/2012/08/01/the-birth-of-the-aircraft-carrier
Page 99, Position 2: Balloons and helicopters frighten the meerkats in London Zoo, but aeroplanes and pigeons don’t.: http://sc.www.buzzfeed.com.ydm0.rg.gy/floperry/weird-facts-you-probably-didnt-know-about-london-zoo
Page 99, Position 3: Pigeons can be trained to identify breast cancer.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34878151
Page 99, Position 4: Rats can diagnose tuberculosis faster than doctors.: http://www.thenational.ae/world/africa/tanzanian-rats-sniff-out-tb-cases-better-than-humans
Page 100, Position 1: In the 16th century, cancer was thought to be curable with tobacco.: http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/tobacco-miracle-cure-toxin
Page 100, Position 2: In the 17th century, Greek monks thought that tobacco was the excrement of Satan.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xLRfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA79&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
Page 100, Position 3: In the 18th century, gin was thought to cure seasickness.: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/11/gin-mothers-ruin-uk-56-distilleries
Page 100, Position 4: In the 19th century, an Edinburgh doctor sold homeopathic snake excrement to treat chest problems.: http://www.thomas-morris.uk/snake-poo-salesman/
Page 101, Position 1: Russia has 800,000 faith healers but only 640,000 doctors.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5751402e-1d47-11e7-ab8a-bed946da5aa3
Page 101, Position 2: Traces of aspirin and penicillin have been found on the teeth of Neanderthals.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2123669-neanderthals-may-have-medicated-with-penicillin-and-painkillers/
Page 101, Position 3: Neanderthals ate rhinoceroses.: http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-science-neanderthals-idUKKBN16F2LK?feedType=nl&feedName=uktechnology&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UK%20Oddly%20Enough%202017-03-09&utm_term=UK%20Oddly%20Enough
Page 101, Position 4: Buddha was not fat.: http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/photos/15-inaccurate-historical-facts/ss-AAnVN3A?ocid=MSN_UK_NL_M_NO_10Mar17OM2-PID84380#image=11\
Page 102, Position 1: During the Second World War, British pilots carried chocolate bars infused with garlic in case they were shot down and needed to make their breath smell French.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/01/garlic-chocolate-exploding-animal-droppings-britains-weird-wwii/
Page 102, Position 2: Eating garlic improves your body odour.: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2015/11/30/study-finds-that-eating-garlic-actually-makes-your-bo-smell-better/#.Vl2Cw4TA6i4
Page 102, Position 3: You can buy cologne that smells of Play-Doh.: https://demeterfragrance.com/play-doh.html
Page 102, Position 4: Rats can smell fear.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128301-800-the-unsung-sense-how-smell-rules-your-life/
Page 103, Position 1: Naked mole-rats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen by turning themselves into plants.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/04/20/naked-mole-rats-turn-plants-survive-without-oxygen-scientists/
Page 103, Position 2: Cuttlefish change colour to elude predators but are themselves colour-blind.: http://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/secrets-of-cephalopod-camouflage/
Page 103, Position 3: Side-blotched lizards have three throat colours and five genders.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-lizards-that-live-rock-paper-scissors-118219795/#3yX7Xs4TyypQr4td.99
Page 103, Position 4: The thorny devil lizard drinks through its skin.: https://phys.org/news/2016-11-thorny-devil-skin-gravity.html
Page 104, Position 1: Ostriches don’t drink at all; they get all the water they need from the plants they eat.: they get all the water they need from the plants they eat.
Page 104, Position 2: Water in Chile’s Atacama Desert has 100 times the safe level of arsenic, but local people have evolved to process it.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23331144-200-desert-people-evolve-to-drink-water-poisoned-with-deadly-arsenic/
Page 104, Position 3: 73% of people who are allergic to pollen are also allergic to cannabis.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4500844/36-million-Americpot-figures-show.html
Page 104, Position 4: Neurotic people are more likely to see faces in random objects.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/66363/neurotic-people-may-be-more-likely-see-faces-objects
Page 105, Position 1: Because of the way their eyes are positioned, pigs can’t see the sky.: http://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/pigs-no-real-appreciation-sky/
Page 105, Position 2: Starfish have eyes on the tips of their arms.: NatGeo Feb 2016
Page 105, Position 3: The cockeyed squid has one regular-sized eye and one giant eye.: New Scientist 18 Feb 17
Page 105, Position 4: The box jellyfish has 24 eyes, some of which always look skywards, even when it is upside down.: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5795906/box-jellyfish-have-24-floating-eyes
Page 106, Position 1: The Portuguese man-o’-war jellyfish is hunted by the blanket octopus, which rips off its poisonous tentacles and uses them as weapons.: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/139/3556/764
Page 106, Position 2: Gloomy octopuses throw seashells at each other.: Octopus, Richard Schweid. Reaktion Books, 2014
Page 106, Position 3: Octopuses range in size from two centimetres to six metres across.: Octopus, Richard Schweid. Reaktion Books, 2014
Page 106, Position 4: Dolphins tenderise octopuses by bashing them around before eating them.: http://www.livescience.com/58572-dolphins-tenderize-octopus-prey.html
Page 107, Position 1: The defence mechanism of turkey vultures is to vomit up their last meal.: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/11-animals-that-use-odor-as-a-weapon/king-ratsnake#top-desktop
Page 107, Position 2: King ratsnakes, or ‘stinking goddesses’, deter predators by emptying their anal glands.: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/11-animals-that-use-odor-as-a-weapon/king-ratsnake#top-desktop
Page 107, Position 3: Opossums defend themselves by faking their own death.: http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/19/5-animals-with-stinky-defenses/
Page 107, Position 4: The UK spends less on defence than it does paying interest on the national debt.: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/photos/11-animals-that-use-odor-as-a-weapon/king-ratsnake#top-desktop
Page 108, Position 1: 1 in 14 Britons is on an NHS waiting list.: http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/year_spending_2018UKbn_16bc1n_305056808s#ukgs302
Page 108, Position 2: 10% of the NHS budget is used to treat diabetes.: https://theconversation.com/why-gluten-free-food-is-not-the-healthy-option-and-could-increase-your-risk-of-diabetes-73979?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%209%202017%20-%2069315167&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%209%202017%20-%2069315167+CID_c6b66b5246365a434f06d71c403a2d48&utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&utm_term=an%20inverse%20relationship%20between%20gluten%20intake%20and%20type%202%20diabetes
Page 108, Position 3: 97% of people visiting hospital with appendicitis report pain when going over speed bumps on the way.: http://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8012
Page 108, Position 4: The world’s hottest chilli was bred to be used as an anaesthetic.: http://www.livescience.com/59184-how-dragons-breath-chili-peppers-can-kill.html
Page 109, Position 1: 15% of the air on the New York subway contains human skin.: http://www.metro.us/local/study-shows-subway-air-samples-include-human-skin/tmWmeh---f3ziRPgXKo9U
Page 109, Position 2: The Brazilian wax was invented in New York.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37896963
Page 109, Position 3: The high five was invented in 1977.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_five
Page 109, Position 4: Before the invention of pressurised cabins, all airline passengers had to wear oxygen masks.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_mask
Page 110, Position 1: Wealthy women in the 16th century wore black velvet masks to protect their faces from the sun.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/visard-mask-elizabethan-visor-blank-16th-century
Page 110, Position 2: Japanese farmers protect the pale flesh of melons from sunburn by putting small hats on them.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-17352173
Page 110, Position 3: The hooded nudibranch is a sea slug that smells like watermelon.: http://www.centralcoastbiodiversity.org/hooded-nudibranch-bull-melibe-leonina.html
Page 110, Position 4: Sea lions love the smell of cinnamon.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sea-lions-are-surprisingly-receptive-to-holiday-spices
Page 111, Position 1: Whale breath smells like a mixture of fish and farts.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/most-whales-dont-know-how-bad-they-smell
Page 111, Position 2: Liver failure makes your breath smell of raw fish.: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/11/disease-cancer-smell-like_n_4939873.html
Page 111, Position 3: German measles makes your sweat smell of freshly plucked feathers.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7661625
Page 111, Position 4: Typhoid makes your skin smell of freshly baked bread.: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7661625
Page 112, Position 1: One outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease was traced to the hot tub in the Playboy Mansion.: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/playboy-mansion-hot-tub-bacteria-spawned-legionnaires-disease-outbreak-back-february-article-1.113423
Page 112, Position 2: The Playboy Mansion has the second-largest residential pipe organ in the US.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/12100838/With-the-Playboy-Mansion-for-sale-take-a-look-at-the-worlds-sexiest-property-market.html
Page 112, Position 3: Until the 16th century, many people carried tiny portable organs called ‘organetti’.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portative_organ
Page 112, Position 4: Half of churchgoers have noticed an organist slipping in unexpected tunes during a service.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10034068/Beware-the-wrath-of-the-church-organist-musical-revenge-is-sweet.html
Page 113, Position 1: Any song played on the radio in 1940s America had to have the whole band present in the studio.: https://timeline.com/live-musicians-were-so-terrified-of-recording-their-music-fdr-had-to-step-in-c03b6af16944
Page 113, Position 2: Paul McGuigan, the original bassist in Oasis, quit the band by fax.: http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/the-oasis-documentary-10-crucial-moments-itd-be-mad-to-miss-out-760285
Page 113, Position 3: 1 in 5 British households own a vinyl copy of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1eab9c60-00e6-11e7-8489-aa00e6d4223d
Page 113, Position 4: The composer who sold the most music CDs in 2016 was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mozart-has-sold-more-cds-in-2016-than-beyonce?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c483c23a67-Newsletter_12_15_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-c483c23a67-63261525&ct=t(Newsletter_12_15_2016)&mc_cid=c483c23a67&mc_eid=1968599da9
Page 114, Position 1: Opera Helps sends opera singers round to your house to sing the appropriate aria for your problems.: http://www.operahelps.com/
Page 114, Position 2: Jacques Offenbach gave his operas long overtures because people were often late for the performances.: http://factstore.info/jacques-offenbach-wrote-long-overtures-for-his-operas-because-many-spectators-were-late/
Page 114, Position 3: Tchaikovsky wanted his 1812 Overture to be played with live cannons.: http://www.classicfm.com/composers/tchaikovsky/guides/1812-hated-hit/#Q5UkDeyJXksuA63A.99
Page 114, Position 4: Tchaikovsky said the 1812 Overture was ‘very loud and noisy and completely without artistic merit, obviously written without warmth or love’.: http://www.classicfm.com/composers/tchaikovsky/guides/1812-hated-hit/#Q5UkDeyJXksuA63A.99
Page 115, Position 1: In 2009, Vodafone recreated the 1812 Overture using ringtones from 1,000 mobile phones.: http://www.classicfm.com/composers/tchaikovsky/guides/1812-hated-hit/#Q5UkDeyJXksuA63A.99
Page 115, Position 2: Mobile-phone users in the Netherlands are provided with traffic lights on the pavement to stop them getting run over.: http://uk.businessinsider.com/dutch-town-traffic-lights-pavements-smartphone-addiction-2017-2?r=US&IR=T
Page 115, Position 3: Prozvonit is a Czech word meaning ‘to call someone’s mobile so they have your number’.: Word Drops, Paul Anthony Jones, pg. 124
Page 115, Position 4: Phubbing is a new word meaning ‘ignoring your friends in favour of your mobile phone’.: http://globalnews.ca/news/3523638/phubbing-meaning/
Page 116, Position 1: The more crowded a subway train gets, the more people buy things on their phones.: s: https://www.recode.net/2017/4/25/15408846/study-mobile-ads-crowds-purchase-subway-commuters
Page 116, Position 2: The number of shopping centres in North Korea doubled between 2010 and 2017.: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/5/2/15502672/north-korea-economy
Page 116, Position 3: Papua New Guinea has only recognised Taiwan for one week in 1999.: http://thediplomat.com/2017/05/the-sovereign-recognition-game-has-nauru-overplayed-its-hand/
Page 116, Position 4: Books may not enter or leave Tajikistan without written permission from the Ministry of Culture.: http://www.signature-reads.com/2017/04/new-tajikistan-rule-no-books-allowed-in-or-out-without-approval/
Page 117, Position 1: Google has a database of 25 million books that nobody is allowed to read.: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
Page 117, Position 2: The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, is the first non-religious book to be translated into 300 languages.: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/read/article/the-little-prince-becomes-the-worlds-most-translated-book-excluding-religio
Page 117, Position 3: A Coptic translation of the New Testament is the world’s slowest-selling book: the first print run of 500 copies took 191 years to sell.: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/slowest-selling-book
Page 117, Position 4: A library book borrowed by George Washington in 1789 wasn’t returned until 2010.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/55621/11-ridiculously-overdue-library-books-were-finally-returned
Page 118, Position 1: The British Library keeps its collection of over 60 million newspapers in an airtight room with low oxygen so they can’t catch fire.: https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2015/january/british-library-opens-national-newspaper-building
Page 118, Position 2: The Moon has been collecting tiny bits of the Earth for three billion years.: https://www.space.com/35502-moon-has-oxygen-from-earth-plants.html
Page 118, Position 3: Collectively, humans have watched Adam Sandler movies on Netflix for longer than civilisation has existed.: s: https://qz.com/962420/collectively-humans-have-watched-adam-sandler-on-netflix-nflx-for-longer-than-civilization-has-existed/
Page 118, Position 4: Netflix’s biggest competitor is sleep.: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/18/netflix-competitor-sleep-uber-facebook?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=222239&subid=22528671&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Page 119, Position 1: In 2017, an Australian MP laughed so hard at the US TV show Veep he knocked himself out.: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/may/04/veep-stars-respond-to-australian-mp-who-knocked-himself-out-laughing-at-episode?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=224408&subid=22528671&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Page 119, Position 2: The two biggest opening-week releases in South Korean film history were both horror movies.: http://variety.com/2017/film/news/the-mummy-box-office-korea-1202455838/
Page 119, Position 3: On the first day of filming, Colin Farrell always wears his lucky shamrock-patterned underpants.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/superstars-superstitions-wet-towels-lucky-9528823
Page 119, Position 4: Tony Blair wore the same pair of shoes for every Prime Minister’s Questions for 10 years.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/superstars-superstitions-wet-towels-lucky-9528823
Page 120, Position 1: In JFK’s first political campaign, a newspaper complained he was ‘ever so British’.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-strange-tale-of-jfks-goatoutthevote-campaign
Page 120, Position 2: The US Constitution is kept in an atomicbomb-proof vault.: s: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/national-archives-vault
Page 120, Position 3: The Indian judiciary has a backlog of 31 million cases.: http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21716019-penchant-criminality-electoral-asset-india-worlds-biggest
Page 120, Position 4: Mumbai has the world’s highest concentration of leopards.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/planet-earth-ii/cities
Page 121, Position 1: The world’s highest concentration of peregrine falcons is in New York City .: Planet Earth II
Page 121, Position 2: In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.: http://graduate.olivet.edu/news-events/news/united-states-crazy-laws
Page 121, Position 3: It is illegal in China to use the national anthem as your ringtone.: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1046034.shtml
Page 121, Position 4: In Iran, it is illegal to walk a dog.: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/world/middleeast/tehran-city-council-elections.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Page 122, Position 1: Popes John I, John X, John XI and John XIV all died in prison.: https://www.geriwalton.com/4348/
Page 122, Position 2: Pope Leo X told a man with 17,000 holy relics that he had saved himself 694,779,550 days in purgatory.: An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural _ James Randi
Page 122, Position 3: During the 1914 Christmas truce, German troops put up a sign that said ‘Gott mitt uns’, meaning ‘God with us’. A British sign in response read: ‘We got mittens too’.: http://www.ppu.org.uk/remembrance/xmas/xmas_tx1.html
Page 122, Position 4: Volkswagen’s official language is not German but English.: s: http://qz.com/875425/volkswagen-is-changing-its-official-language-from-german-to-english/
Page 123, Position 1: The Chinese buy more electric cars than everyone else in the world combined.: http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-usa-autoshow-china-electric-idUKKBN14V1H3
Page 123, Position 2: The maps used by self-driving cars cannot be read by humans.: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2017/03/the-most-detailed-maps-of-the-world-will-be-for-cars-not-humans/
Page 123, Position 3: Rolls-Royce added the Spirit of Ecstasy to the bonnets of its cars to stop drivers using tasteless mascots.: http://northstargallery.com/cars/spiritofecstacy.htm
Page 123, Position 4: In the 1980s, Nissan’s talking cars used tiny vinyl records.: http://jalopnik.com/5246380/1982-datsun-voice-warning-box-used-tiny-phonograph-record-just-like-moon-base-robots
Page 124, Position 1: At 19th-century funerals the last words of the dying were often played on early gramophones.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xeh0Fhe9Y9wC&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=phonograph+funeral&source=bl&ots=9SYh3eSzAA&sig=0Z9OFQzBewQEKR-8yJ-RlBFtrpk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj_w4es_cnRAhVGJ8AKHaYqBM8Q6AEIKzAC#v=onepage&q=phonograph%20funeral&f=false
Page 124, Position 2: Alexander Graham Bell’s Ear Phonautograph was a recording device using a real human ear from a corpse.: http://www.nineteenthcenturydisability.org/items/show/42
Page 124, Position 3: John Logie Baird called his prototype television a ‘shadowgraph’.: http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/co8067245/baird-televisor-televisor
Page 124, Position 4: Jeremy Clarkson’s The Grand Tour on Amazon is the most illegally watched TV show ever.: link.fivethirtyeight.com/click/8346972.93328/aHR0cDovL2phbG9wbmlrLmNvbS90aGUtZ3JhbmQtdG91ci1tYXktYmUtdGhlLW1vc3QtaWxsZWdhbGx5LWRvd25sb2FkZWQtdHYtMTc4OTk4MzI5OD9leF9jaWQ9U2lnRGln/57e30dbf2ddf9c66ccd4b786B42692982
Page 125, Position 1: It takes 18 people 900 hours to put out the red carpet for the Oscars.: https://longreads.com/2017/02/26/whats-literally-underfoot-at-the-oscars-or-the-secrets-of-the-red-carpet-revealed/
Page 125, Position 2: The man who won the Oscar for best screenplay for The Bridge on the River Kwai was a Frenchman who couldn’t speak or write English.: http://www.nytimes.com/1985/03/16/movies/oscars-go-to-writers-for-kwai.html
Page 125, Position 3: Jerry Lewis is known in France as Le Roi du Crazy.: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-max-rose-jerry-lewis-profile-20160823-snap-story.html?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=934511b30c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-934511b30c-80384829
Page 125, Position 4: The first named individual in history was an accountant.: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/08/19/whos-the-first-person-in-history-whose-name-we-know/
Page 126, Position 1: More species have been named after Barack Obama than any other US president.: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/these-nine-different-creatures-have-been-named-after-barack-obama
Page 126, Position 2: Neopalpa donaldtrumpi is a moth named after Donald Trump that has blond hair and comes from Mexico.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38661250
Page 126, Position 3: Words used by Donald Trump for the first time in a US president’s inaugural address include ‘bleed’, ‘ripped’, ‘rusted’, ‘stolen’, ‘trapped’ and ‘tombstones’.: s: https://twitter.com/PostGraphics/status/822513952051499009
Page 126, Position 4: Donald Trump got tens of thousands of dollars in tax breaks by using goats to cut the grass on his golf courses.: https://www.wsj.com/articles/goat-herd-helps-trump-lower-tax-bite-1461191607
Page 127, Position 1: The only woman in Einstein’s physics class at Zürich Polytechnic married him.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/einstein-facts-science-genius/
Page 127, Position 1: Emperor Wu, the first emperor of China, visited his harem in a goat cart; whoever the goats stopped beside was chosen as his concubine.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wu_of_Jin
Page 127, Position 2: Angora goats are named after the old spelling of the Turkish capital, Ankara.: https://www.seeker.com/goats-in-turkey-now-have-their-own-sperm-bank-2189109166.html
Page 127, Position 3: Goats are accepted at schools in Zimbabwe in lieu of tuition fees.: s: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-39639204
Page 128, Position 1: Dog lovers tend to have more Facebook friends than cat lovers, but cat lovers get invited to more parties.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/84569/facebook-dog-people-have-more-friends-cat-people-get-invited-more-parties
Page 128, Position 2: A peer-reviewed paper on low-temperature physics was published in 1975 by a cat.: http://www.academiaobscura.com/academic-animals/
Page 128, Position 3: A 1998 study found cats prefer cat lovers to cat haters.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15921504-800-cats-dont-do-it-just-to-spite-you/
Page 128, Position 4: 64% of Americans prefer their cat’s company to their partner’s.: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/respect-your-cat-not-that-it-cares.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=0
Page 129, Position 1: One of the first chimpanzees in London Zoo came from Bristol by overnight coach.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/13/rhino-escapes-andbonnets-stealing-elephants-theamateurish-early/
Page 129, Position 2: Most female cats are right-pawed, and most male cats are left-pawed.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17510-is-your-cat-left-or-right-pawed/
Page 129, Position 3: Most orang-utans are left-handed, but most gorillas and chimpanzees are right-handed.: http://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/do-other-animals-show-handedness/
Page 129, Position 4: In 2016, a gorilla escaped at London Zoo and drank five litres of blackcurrant squash.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/20/gorilla-drank-litres-blackcurrant-juice-escaping-london-zoo-enclosure
Page 130, Position 1: Straightening people’s teeth also improves their balance.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160914090458.htm
Page 130, Position 2: Zoo animals have specially made toothbrushes.: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/how-to-brush-a-gorillas-teeth.html
Page 130, Position 3: Naked mole-rats operate their front teeth like chopsticks.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-naked-mole-rats-28758269/
Page 130, Position 4: Ocelots don’t have any chewing teeth, so they have to swallow their food whole.: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/ocelot/
Page 131, Position 1: The weights in a gym have 362 times more bacteria than a toilet seat.: http://www.bicycling.com/training/strength-training/this-piece-of-gym-equipment-has-362-times-more-bacteria-than-a-toilet
Page 131, Position 2: In 2011, a Canadian dentist bought one of John Lennon’s teeth at auction for £19,000.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/4e641c9b-1a1f-4b07-9201-5843854aaa25?intc_type=promo&intc_location=news&intc_campaign=bizarrethingssoldatauction&intc_linkname=bbcmusic_ent_article
Page 131, Position 3: In 2017, British doctors found 27 lost contact lenses in a patient’s eye.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-40630852
Page 131, Position 4: The average person farts 14 times a day.: http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/digestive/10-facts-about-flatus4.htm
Page 132, Position 1: Google reinforced its undersea cables because they kept being nibbled by sharks.: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/sharks-are-eating-the-internet-in-vietnam-9962747.html
Page 132, Position 2: Ocean bacteria drift into the sky in spray and help create clouds.: https://cosmosmagazine.com/climate/how-sea-dwelling-microbes-help-form-clouds
Page 132, Position 3: Most of ‘The Cloud’ is underwater.: http://time.com/4520922/the-digital-cloud-is-underwater-and-vulnerable/
Page 132, Position 4: All the cables under the ocean joined together would be long enough to reach to the Moon and back.: http://www.techinsider.io/fiberoptic-internet-cables-ocean-bottom-map-2015-9?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=referral
Page 133, Position 1: Killer whales’ favourite delicacy is whale’s tongue.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/killer-whales-orca-minke-kill-attack/
Page 133, Position 2: 40% of a shark’s brain is dedicated to its sense of smell.: http://discovermagazine.com/2014/may/26-20-things-animal-senses
Page 133, Position 3: Female Greenland sharks reach sexual maturity at 150 years old.: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/11/400-year-old-greenland-shark-is-the-oldest-vertebrate-animal
Page 133, Position 4: Humpback whales protect other species from killer whales.: http://gizmodo.com/why-do-humpback-whales-protect-other-species-from-kille-1784175589
Page 134, Position 1: In 1579, English pirates raided and destroyed a Spanish ship, mistaking its cargo of cocoa beans for sheep droppings.: http://www.howstuffworks.com/history-of-chocolate3.htm
Page 134, Position 2: Coral’s main source of nutrition is fish pee.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/fish-urine-pee-coral-reefs-recycling-nutrients-ecology/
Page 134, Position 3: The world’s tallest church is being eroded by men urinating on it.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/germany/articles/worlds-tallest-church-ulm-minster-under-threat-from-streams-of-urine/
Page 134, Position 4: Two churches on the Greek island of Chios celebrate Easter by firing rockets at each other.: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/04/the-easter-rocket-war-of-vrontados/100720/
Page 135, Position 1: Shakespeare’s daughter Judith was excommunicated.: http://theshakespeareblog.com/2014/02/judith-quiney-shakespeares-forgotten-daughter/
Page 135, Position 2: Sheep-creeps are low, square openings in drystone walls that let sheep in but keep cattle out.: Natural history of the hedgerow by John Wright.
Page 135, Position 3: Cows lie down when it’s cold or when they’re tired, not necessarily when it’s about to rain.: http://modernfarmer.com/2014/09/cows-really-lie-rainstorm/
Page 135, Position 4: A bull named Pawnee FarmArlinda Chief has more than two million great-granddaughters.: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/10/the-dairy-industry-lost-420-million-from-a-flaw-in-a-single-bull/505616/
Page 136, Position 1: George Orwell said beer was best drunk out of china cups.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/pubs/11161984/The-perfect-pub-is-there-one-left-in-Britain.html
Page 136, Position 2: Only four people went to Jane Austen’s funeral.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=shg7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=Only+four+mourners+attended+Jane+Austen's+funeral.&source=bl&ots=u7amX6aoQy&sig=EOm6K51QONFA-G3Gbs5bv5Uvl3o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUyezty5LVAhUEL1AKHU88BS0Q6AEIPzAD#v=onepage&q=Only%20four%20mourners%20attended%20Jane%20Austen's%20funeral.&f=false
Page 136, Position 3: George Eliot’s right hand was much bigger than her left.: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jan/28/embarassing-bodies-what-did-the-victorians-have-to-hide
Page 136, Position 4: George Bernard Shaw left money in his will to fund a 40-letter alphabet.: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/04/does-spelling-matter/
Page 137, Position 1: In 1758, two camels came to London, one with one hump and one with two. They were called ‘the surprising camel’ and ‘the wonderful camel’.: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n24/mary-wellesley/no-looking-at-my-elephant
Page 137, Position 2: A thirsty camel can drink a pint in 3.25 seconds.: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/weepingcamel/thecamels.html
Page 137, Position 3: It would take 23 bales of straw to break a camel’s back.: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/2mw59w/request_how_much_straw_would_it_actually_take_to/
Page 137, Position 4: Abu Dhabi has a beauty contest for camels.: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-04-02/abu-dhabi-holds-annual-camel-beauty-contest/2391244
Page 138, Position 1: In 1966, the Chinese press claimed Chairman Mao swam nine miles down the Yangtze in 65 minutes, making him twice as fast as Michael Phelps.: . http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2054250,00.html
Page 138, Position 2: The first pharaoh of a united Egypt was killed by a hippo.: http://listverse.com/2017/01/24/10-facts-about-ancient-egyptian-animals-that-will-blow-your-mind/
Page 138, Position 3: There is only one deaf dentist in Egypt.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-39566586
Page 138, Position 4: In 2016, an Egyptian government memo on how to crush the press was accidentally sent to the press.: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/04/world/middleeast/egypts-interior-ministry-in-error-releases-memos-on-restricting-news-media.html?_r=0
Page 139, Position 1: Adulterated olive oil makes three times as much profit as cocaine.: Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil (2011) by Thomas Mueller
Page 139, Position 2: Michael Phelps’s training breakfast consisted of an omelette, porridge, three slices of French toast, three egg sandwiches and three pancakes.: http://www.livescience.com/55747-what-olympians-eat.htmal
Page 139, Position 3: Tea leaves can flow upstream from the cup to the pot.: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-07/particles-can-travel-waterfall
Page 139, Position 4: A tablespoonful of oil dropped into a lake can calm half an acre of water.: http://digg.com/video/oil-oil-lake?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 140, Position 1: Pigs can be pessimistic.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37996361
Page 140, Position 2: The fashion for heavily oiled hair in Victorian times is the reason for headrest cloths on trains.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimacassar
Page 140, Position 3: 18th-century hairstyles included Spaniel’s Ears, Mad Dog and The Drowned Chicken.: http://www.racked.com/2016/5/24/11720972/competitive-hairdressing-omc-hairworld-olympics
Page 140, Position 4: A 16th-century recipe for an omelette included clover, goat’s cheese, cinnamon, mint, spring onion, marjoram, nutmeg and pig’s blood.: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/03/03/sensory-delights/
Page 141, Position 1: Glow-worms go fishing.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2116354-cave-glow-worms-vomit-long-sticky-urine-threads-to-catch-prey/
Page 141, Position 2: Rats have near-death experiences.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23672150
Page 141, Position 3: Ravens suffer from paranoia.: https://www.cnet.com/au/news/ravens-smart-enough-to-be-paranoid/
Page 141, Position 4: Egyptian fruit bats argue.: http://www.npr.org/2016/12/31/507609012/when-bats-squeak-they-tend-to-squabble
Page 142, Position 1: The Bible’s Wikipedia entry has fewer citations than the one for Pokémon Go.: http://gizmodo.com/on-wikipedia-pokemon-go-is-a-bigger-deal-than-the-bibl-1784651888
Page 142, Position 2: Merlin was a Slytherin.: http://www.mtv.com/news/2034237/harry-potter-merlin-slytherin/
Page 142, Position 3: The Hobbit contains only one instance of the word ‘she’.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/men-chuckle-women-kiss-in-world-of-books-x650x5g3z
Page 142, Position 4: The words ‘girl’ and ‘boy’ appear only once each in the Bible.: http://findinggod.co.uk/2016/05/words-that-appear-only-once-in-the-kjv-bible/
Page 143, Position 1: In the 1930s, there were five suits in a pack of cards.: http://www.shortlist.com/news/five-playing-card-suits-eagle-crown-history?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
Page 143, Position 2: There are more positions in a game of Go than there are atoms in the universe.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/24/computer-beats-chinese-master-ancient-board-game-go/
Page 143, Position 3: The European Parliament recommends chess is played in all schools.: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+TA+P7-TA-2012-0097+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN
Page 143, Position 4: In medieval chess, each pawn had its own role: Gambler, City Guard, Innkeeper, Merchant, Doctor, Weaver, Blacksmith and Farmer.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_(chess)#history
Page 144, Position 1: In 1913, the roulette wheel in Monte Carlo came up black 26 times in a row.: http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-night-the-gamblers-fallacy-lost-people-millions-1496890660
Page 144, Position 2: Gamblers in Japan are only allowed to bet on horse, boat or cycle races.: The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling by Adam Kucharski
Page 144, Position 3: Less than 1% of sports bets in the US are placed legally.: The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling by Adam Kucharski
Page 144, Position 4: All forms of gambling were illegal in Russia for 60 years from 1928 to 1988.: https://www.gamblingsites.com/online-gambling-jurisdictions/russia/
Page 145, Position 1: There are as many Russian agents in London today as there were at the height of the Cold War.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/29/russian-spies-cold-war-levels
Page 145, Position 2: The Queen Mother’s funeral was rehearsed for 22 years.: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 145, Position 3: Guillermo del Toro does all his writing in a room with a fake thunderstorm going on outside.: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/guillermo-del-toro-bleak-house-lacma-monster-exhibition-a7157481.html
Page 145, Position 4: The longest known lightning bolt could have reached from Brussels to London.: http://www.livescience.com/56134-world-record-longest-lightning-bolt.html
Page 146, Position 1: In China, Pretty Woman became ‘I Will Marrya Prostitute to Save Money’.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-news/11148825/The-Greatest-Chinese-Film-Title-Translations.html?frame=3065925
Page 146, Position 2: The location of the Teletubbies set was so secret that visitors had to be blindfolded.: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jun/03/how-we-made-teletubbies
Page 146, Position 3: The average person has 13 secrets.: s:https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21721129-weighing-heavy-soul-having-secrets-not-problem-thinking-about-them
Page 146, Position 4: ‘Eleven Men and a Secret’ was the Brazilian version of Ocean’s Eleven.: http://www.adorocinema.com/filmes/filme-26857/
Page 147, Position 1: In Mexico, it isn’t illegal to escape from prison.: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/el-chapo-no-charges-for-breaking-out-of-jail_us_56d09a45e4b03260bf76ac8f
Page 147, Position 2: The original Godzilla costume was made of concrete.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/93171/meet-actor-who-brought-godzilla-life
Page 147, Position 3: All Quiet on the Western Front was banned in Poland for being pro-German and in Germany for being anti-German.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/most-loved-and-hated-novel-about-world-war-I-180955540/
Page 147, Position 4: $1,000 Reward (1913), a film about escaping convicts, was banned in Britain in case it gave real convicts ideas.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_banned_in_the_United_Kingdom
Page 148, Position 1: Dutch trains have laser cannons to fire at leaves on the line.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429984-800-locked-on-lasers-burn-through-leaves-on-train-lines/
Page 148, Position 2: In Greek mythology , Odysseus escapes the Cyclops by hiding under a sheep. In the Apache version, he hides in the anus of a buffalo.: https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-dominion-post/20161115/282750586314930
Page 148, Position 3: In case someone needs to escape a polar bear, people in Churchill, Canada, never lock their car doors.: https://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/eco-tourism/stories/life-in-the-polar-bear-capital-of-the-world
Page 148, Position 4: Self-driving Volvos avoid deer, elk and caribou but don’t recognise kangaroos.: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/01/volvo-admits-its-self-driving-cars-are-confused-by-kangaroos
Page 149, Position 1: Cranberries cannot be farmed organically.: http://qz.com/844309/cranberry-sauce-on-thanksgiving-the-dark-history-behind-americas-obsession-with-cranberries/?utm_source=Quartz+Morning+Brief&utm_campaign=35a071c085-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ff2527dbb-35a071c085-57548377
Page 149, Position 2: On busy Chinese trains, passengers take turns on the seats so everyone gets to sit for some of the journey .: http://www.forbes.com/sites/yw ang/2017/01/26/worlds-largest- human-migration-begins- chinese-new-year-2017/#31992b1 335fb
Page 149, Position 3: Noise-reduction equipment on Chinese trains means they make no more noise than a dishwasher.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/20/incredible-train-disappears-block-flats-chinas-mountain-city/
Page 149, Position 4: Items left on British trains include a six-foot-tall inflatable dinosaur, a dead fish and a framed photo of Mary Berry .: http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/29/revealed-the-weirdest-things-people-leave-on-trains-from-inflatable-dinosaurs-to-mary-berry-5271004/
Page 150, Position 1: The Estonian army travels with pop-up saunas.: http://www.wsj.com/articles/estonian-troops-have-never-fought-a-cold-warthanks-to-pop-up-saunas-1480357911?utm_source=Quartz+Morning+Brief&utm_campaign=bf51ae4f7f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ff2527dbb-bf51ae4f7f-57548377
Page 150, Position 2: Most Americans have never eaten a blackcurrant.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-the-purple-skittle-tastes-different-outside-america?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160912&bt_email=john_hardress_lloyd@hotmail.com&bt_ts=1473688070267
Page 150, Position 3: The cheapest Big Macs in the world can be found in Egypt.: http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/29/this-is-where-you-can-buy-the-cheapest-big-mac-in-the-world-6413133/
Page 150, Position 4: Uzbek master chefs can cook enough food in a single cauldron to feed 1,000 men.: https://www.zoo.com/quiz/97-people-cant-identify-individual-countries-just-a-map-outline-can-you?mkcpgn=i600006636&utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=UK-Zoo-CountryOutline-Screenshots%28desktop%29&utm_term=5055356&utm_content=Can+You+Score+in+the+Top+3%25%3F+-+Country+Outline&sg_uid=fHsKF_qNRAqYi-AY6R7anA
Page 151, Position 1: Rudeness is contagious.: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26121091
Page 151, Position 2: Morse code operators in the Second World War could recognise each other’s ‘accents’ over the line.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0YY0AQAAQBAJ&pg=PT17&lpg=PT17&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
Page 151, Position 3: In January 1945, the Nova Scotia police received complaints that drivers were using their horns to send filthy messages in Morse.: http://boingboing.net/2016/12/12/car-horns-used-to-communicate.html
Page 151, Position 4: People who swear are less likely to be liars.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170117105107.htm
Page 152, Position 1: Drug-addicted parrots are depleting India’s opium crop.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/parrots-flying-high-drugs-annoying-10073428
Page 152, Position 2: Kea parrots find laughter contagious and high-five in mid-air.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2125261-parrots-find-laughter-contagious-and-high-five-in-mid-air/
Page 152, Position 3: In 2017, a parrot thief in Taiwan handed himself in because he couldn’t cope with the incessant squawking.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4544954/Parrot-thief-turns-loud-noise.html
Page 152, Position 4: Male kakapo parrots have a mating call that can be heard four miles away, but females can’t tell where it’s coming from.: Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species, Heise, Ursula K.
Page 153, Position 1: British warships make so much noise that enemy submarines can hear them from 100 miles away.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/05/british-warships-noisy-russian-submarines-can-hear-100-miles/
Page 153, Position 2: Humans have been using cannabis for 10,000 years and dealing in it for 5,000 years.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2096440-founders-of-western-civilisation-were-prehistoric-dope-dealers/
Page 153, Position 3: The first Europeans known to have tried cannabis lay on the ground complimenting each other, before one started a fight with a pillar.: Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins, Claire Cock-Starkey
Page 153, Position 4: 25% of the cocaine in the US arrives by submarine.: https://news.vice.com/article/us-agents-watch-as-narco-sub-carrying-194-million-worth-of-cocaine-sinks-after-bust
Page 154, Position 1: ‘Oi’ has been rated the 61st most beautiful word in English.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4039185.stm
Page 154, Position 2: The oldest intact sunken warship in the US is called the Land Tortoise.: http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/5076.html
Page 154, Position 3: The golden tortoise beetle turns red when aroused or threatened.: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/glad-you-ditched-the-anal-fork-golden-tortoise-beetle/
Page 154, Position 4: Saying ‘Ow’ when you stub your toe makes it hurt less.: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2015/05/13/on-the-purpose-of-saying-ow-when-you-hurt-yourself/#.WTl9ozLMzBI
Page 155, Position 1: Sobremesa is Spanish for the time spent relaxing and enjoying the company after a meal.: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/13-untranslatable-words-for-happiness-a6849211.html
Page 155, Position 2: A theist is someone who is addicted to tea.: https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/867627562247241728
Page 155, Position 3: Batrachomymachy is the technical term for making a mountain out of a molehill.: http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/word-of-the-day/word-of-the-day-batrachomyomachy/4008
Page 155, Position 4: An eedle-doddle is Scots for someone who shows no initiative in a crisis.: http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/eedledoddle
Page 156, Position 1: In Urdu and Hindi, the word for ‘panda’ is panda.: https://translate.google.com/#hi/en/panda
Page 156, Position 2: Queen Victoria ate bone marrow every day.: Offal. Nina Edwards. Reaktion, 2013
Page 156, Position 3: When dieting, Queen Victoria ate what her doctors advised on top of her normal meals.: http://www.historyextra.com/article/bbc-history-magazine/queen-victoria%E2%80%99s-appetites
Page 156, Position 4: Queen Victoria could read and write in Urdu and Hindi.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-12670110
Page 157, Position 1: The Australian coat of arms features an emu and a kangaroo because they supposedly can’t go backwards, but they can.: https://www.pmc.gov.au/government/commonwealth-coat-arms
Page 157, Position 2: Pandas are white so they can hide in the snow and black so they can hide in the shadows.: http://www.livescience.com/58206-why-pandas-are-black-and-white.html
Page 157, Position 3: Foxes in Australia climb trees to eat koalas.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2120944-foxes-seen-climbing-trees-at-night-to-track-down-and-eat-koalas/
Page 157, Position 4: When the Queen toured Australia in 1954, 75% of Australians went to see her.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/prince-philip-retire-95-duke-edinburgh-numbers/
Page 158, Position 1: Soldier ants carrywounded comrades back to the nest.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2127770-soldier-ants-carry-comrades-wounded-in-raids-back-to-base/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=news&campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-news
Page 158, Position 2: Mariah Carey employs a man to walk backwards in front of her.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9763d7b4-076a-11e7-a9a4-674e2ac78952
Page 158, Position 3: Ostriches can only kick forwards.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrich
Page 158, Position 4: Trap-jaw ants hit each other with their antennae more than 40 times a second.: https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/324794
Page 159, Position 1: Code V91.07 is ‘burn caused by water skis on fire’.: http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/V90-V94/V91-/V91.07
Page 159, Position 2: US medical diagnosis code S30.862 deals with insect bites on the penis.: http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/S00-T88/S30-S39/S30-/S30.862D
Page 159, Position 3: Code V91.35 is ‘hit by a falling object due to a canoeing accident’.: http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/V90-V94/V91-
Page 159, Position 4: Code W55.21 is ‘bitten by a cow’.: http://www.icd10data.com/ICD10CM/Codes/V00-Y99/W50-W64/W55-/W55.21
Page 160, Position 1: For Christmas 2012, Angelina Jolie gave Brad Pitt a $1.6 million Californian waterfall.: http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/31-incredible-gifts-given-by-the-super-rich/ss-BBzIPXp?ocid=MSN_UK_NL_M_NO_14Apr17OM2-PID84960#image=9
Page 160, Position 2: At an arson trial in Florida in 2017, a lawyer’s trousers burst into flames.: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39223150?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook
Page 160, Position 3: Snapdragon was an old Christmas game where you grabbed a raisin from a bowl of burning brandy and put it in your mouth.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/29557/7-strange-christmas-traditions
Page 160, Position 4: Before turkey was adopted, the traditional British Christmas meal was a pig’s head and mustard.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boar's_Head_Feast
Page 161, Position 1: Liszt had a stalker who stole the dregs of his tea and used it as perfume.: Economist 1st_July 2016
Page 161, Position 2: Tennyson once earned 1,000 guineas for writing a verse for a Christmas card.: London St James Gazette - January 15, 1903
Page 161, Position 3: Mendelssohn wrote the tune for ‘Hark the Herald Angels Sing’. He said he didn’t mind what the words were as long as they weren’t religious.: A Christmas Cornucopia, Mark Forsyth
Page 161, Position 4: Bach composed the Brandenburg Concertos as a job application but never got a reply.: http://www.classicfm.com/composers/bach/music/johann-sebastian-bach-brandenburg-concertos/
Page 162, Position 1: Apocalypse, Stormageddon, Root Ripper, Branch Wobbler and In a Teacup are names for storms suggested by the British public.: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-storm-names
Page 162, Position 2: The world’s largest perfume archive is the Osmothèque in Versailles. It has 4,000 scents dating back to the 1800s.: http://www.osmotheque.fr/en/the-collection/
Page 162, Position 3: The ‘Odour of Sanctity’ is the heavenly smell given off by the bodies of dead saints.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odour_of_sanctity
Page 162, Position 4: The smell of the apocalypse was created by artists in 2016, using scents mentioned in the Book of Revelation.: https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/shortcuts/2016/apr/17/thompson-craighead-bible-amageddon-apocalypse-carroll-fletcher-art
Page 163, Position 1: Los Angeles has had the same climate for 50,000 years.: http://www.popsci.com/los-angeles-climate-50000-years
Page 163, Position 2: Gluggaveður (‘window-weather’) is Icelandic for weather that looks beautiful but is best enjoyed from indoors.: http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/10-words-and-phrases-icelandic-dont-exist-english
Page 163, Position 3: Komorebi is Japanese for sunlight filtering through the trees.: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ella-frances-sanders/11-untranslatable-words-f_b_3817711.html
Page 163, Position 4: The colours of rainbows are used to measure air pollution.: http://theweek.com/articles/648706/fascinating-science-rainbows
Page 164, Position 1: A ladybird’s wings are four times the size of its body.: http://all-that-is-interesting.com/lady-bug-folding-wings
Page 164, Position 2: When hot weather comes, zebra finches sing to their eggs to warn them.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101681-birds-sing-to-their-unborn-chicks-to-warn-them-about-hot-weather/
Page 164, Position 3: A baby partridge is called a ‘cheeper’.: http://www.zooborns.com/zooborns/baby-animal-names.html
Page 164, Position 4: 1,400 wrens weigh as much as one swan.: Bill Baileys Remarkable Guide To British Birds: The One Show October 7 2016
Page 165, Position 1: Mrs Thatcher did four photo shoots for Vogue and could get ready for them in four minutes.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/when-maggie-was-in-vogue-hrq9d6dc9
Page 165, Position 2: Three plovers, a parrot and a baboon feature in the Scottish version of ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/89823/13-alternative-lyrics-twelve-days-christmas
Page 165, Position 3: A Victorian time capsule buried in London contains photographs of the 12 most beautiful women in England.: http://articles.latimes.com/1987-09-20/travel/tr-9348_1_obelisk
Page 165, Position 4: A photo of Nick Clegg was used in an ad at Las Vegas airport after the designers thought it was a stock image.: http://news.sky.com/story/nick-clegg-ends-up-as-model-in-bizarre-us-airport-poster-10804420
Page 166, Position 1: Mars was once devastated by 50-metre tsunamis.: New Scientist 28th May 2016
Page 166, Position 2: The photons hitting your retina right now were passing Mercury five minutes ago.: Francis, Gavin, Adventures in Human Being
Page 166, Position 3: No man-made object has survived on Venus for more than 127 minutes.: http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a9426/how-much-do-we-really-know-about-venus-15939291/
Page 166, Position 4: Half the water on Earth is older than the Sun.: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/09/25/earths-water-is-older-than-the-sun/#.WFPw5qIrLfY
Page 167, Position 1: The fastest winds in the universe are on Neptune.: http://www.space.com/41-neptune-the-other-blue-planet-in-our-solar-system.html
Page 167, Position 2: Jupiter’s Northern Lights cover an area larger than Earth.: https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1613/
Page 167, Position 3: On Saturn’s moon Titan, twilight is 200 times brighter than midday.: http://www.space.com/36609-twilight-outshines-daylight-saturn-moon-titan.html
Page 167, Position 4: Uranus doesn’t smell much, apart from the odd fart-like waft.: http://gizmodo.com/uranus-smells-like-farts-1793765256
Page 168, Position 1: ICE, or Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is a US agency that deports so many people it has its own airline.: s: https://qz.com/916697/the-us-government-deports-so-many-immigrants-each-year-at-a-cost-of-8000-an-hour-that-it-runs-its-own-ice-air-service/
Page 168, Position 2: Pluto has towers of ice 1,600 feet tall.: s: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pluto-has-1600-ft-icy-penitentes?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 168, Position 3: Alpine glaciers are to be stored in a specially built bunker in Antarctica.: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-trying-to-collect-a-library-of-ice-before-it-disappears
Page 168, Position 4: Types of ice include pancake, icefoot and bummock.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/82967/15-blissfully-cool-facts-about-ice
Page 169, Position 1: The advertising for Trump World Tower claims it is 19 floors taller than it actually is.: http://harpers.org/archive/2017/02/harpers-index-391/
Page 169, Position 2: Police in Arizona must check your immigration status if called to inspect the height of your grass.: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/may/04/kyrsten-sinema/under-arizona-immigration-law-overgrown-lawns-bark/
Page 169, Position 3: In Arkansas, it is illegal for grass to be six inches tall.: http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/index.aspx?page=1595
Page 169, Position 4: The Washington Monument was completed in 1888, but nobody knew its height until 2015.: http://gizmodo.com/why-we-didnt-know-how-tall-the-washington-monument-was-1686262508
Page 170, Position 1: Mrs Thatcher slept for the same number of hours each night as an elephant.: http://en.upali.ch/elephants-sleep/
Page 170, Position 2: Donald Trump has bathmophobia, the fear of falling down stairs.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cool-hand-theresa-deftly-twists-donalds-arm-b8hdxbxgq
Page 170, Position 3: David Cameron likes to imagine that any pheasants he shoots are called Boris or Michael.: s: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/portillos-odd-track-record-bgr2wv0pj
Page 170, Position 4: All Margaret Thatcher’s government documents had different spacing so she would know who’d leaked one if it appeared in the press.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dutT6YZixIoC&pg=PA175&dq
Page 171, Position 1: Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, fed claret to his pet parakeet.: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n24/mary-wellesley/no-looking-at-my-elephant
Page 171, Position 2: The US army spent millions finding out if elephants could be used to smell bombs.: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/03/11/bomb-sniffing-elephants/70149110/
Page 171, Position 3: At least 61 species live in elephants’ footprints.: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/elephant-footprint/
Page 171, Position 4: The first giraffe in Britain was said to have died as a result of a sympathetic reaction to gout in George IV’s toe.: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n24/mary-wellesley/no-looking-at-my-elephant
Page 172, Position 1: Only a quarter of employees look forward to their Christmas party .: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38211828
Page 172, Position 2: Sabrage is a technique for opening champagne with a cavalry sword.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrage
Page 172, Position 3: A fencing guide from 1763 allowed the use of lanterns to illuminate opponents, to dazzle them and to hit them with.: http://thoulsparadise.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-lantern-in-combat.html
Page 172, Position 4: Yorkshire had a Christmas tradition of festive sword dancing.: Christmas in nineteenth-century England' by Neil Armstrong (MUP, 2010).
Page 173, Position 1: Pie crusts used to be called ‘coffins’.: http://blog.english-heritage.org.uk/recipe-for-real-mince-pies/
Page 173, Position 2: The word ‘Xmas’ was in use before the word ‘Christmas’.: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/201826495/where-do-christmas-traditions-come-from
Page 173, Position 3: The first recipe for Brussels sprouts advised buttering them and serving them on toast.: A Christmas Cornucopia, Mark Forsyth
Page 173, Position 4: The world’s largest mince-pie factory can make two million pies in 24 hours.: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/09/inside-worlds-largest-mince-pie-factory-mr-kipling-christmas
Page 174, Position 1: The winner of Australia’s 2011 ‘So You Think You Can Stare’ competition lasted 40 minutes and 59 seconds without blinking.: http://www.medicaldaily.com/man-who-stared-41-minutes-and-science-blinking-241862
Page 174, Position 2: The award ceremony for obituary writers is called ‘The Grimmies’.: http://www.societyofprofessionalobituarywriters.org/the-grimmies.html
Page 174, Position 3: The 2016 Florida Keys Hemingway Lookalike Contest was won by Mr Dave Hemingway (no relation).: Fortean Times 350
Page 174, Position 4: A Paul Gascoigne lookalike competition in South Shields in 1991 was won by a teenage girl.: A Classless Society _ Alwyn Turner
Page 175, Position 1: NASA has a robo-glove which gives the wearer three times more gripping power.: https://technology.nasa.gov/patent/MSC-TOPS-37
Page 175, Position 2: Cinema audiences blink in unison.: https://m.curiosity.com/topics/moviegoers-blink-in-sync-because-the-brain-doesnt-want-you-to-miss-a-thing-curiosity/
Page 175, Position 3: The best female golfer in America putts with her eyes closed.: http://www.golfchannel.com/news/golf-central-blog/seeing-disbelieving-thompson-putts-eyes-closed/
Page 175, Position 4: One of the only players on the US PGA golf tour not to wear a glove is Lucas Glover.: Sky Sports coverage
Page 176, Position 1: In 19th-century Boston, it was bad luck to cut your nails at weekends.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fingernails-clipping-history-nails
Page 176, Position 2: On the Moon, there’s a piece of lava from Oregon.: http://offbeatoregon.com/1208c-astronaut-left-oregon-lava-on-moon.html
Page 176, Position 3: Oregon is the only US state with a double-sided flag.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_whose_reverse_differs_from_the_obverse
Page 176, Position 4: The name of Portland, Oregon, was chosen by tossing a coin. The other option was ‘Boston’.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Penny
Page 177, Position 1: Rainwater contains vitamin B12.: https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v219/n5154/abs/219617a0.html
Page 177, Position 2: Atlanta Zoo has a cockroach called Tom Brady.: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2017/02/14/tom-brady-cockroach/
Page 177, Position 3: A cockroach’s heart has 13 chambers.: http://www.livescience.com/49795-strange-animal-hearts.html
Page 177, Position 4: The world’s healthiest human hearts belong to the Tsimane people of Bolivia, who eat monkeys, tapirs, wild pigs and piranhas.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/18/south-american-tribe-found-have-healthiest-hearts-ever-studied/
Page 178, Position 1: Denmark has more pigs than people.: http://www.channel4learning.com/sites/wearefrom/denmark/amazing_facts.html
Page 178, Position 2: Tears contain vitamin A.: http://www.go-symmetry.com/health/bakup/dry-eyes.htm
Page 178, Position 3: Six-week-old babies cry for an average of two hours and 15 minutes a day.: http://www.livescience.com/58577-crying-and-colic-in-babies.html
Page 178, Position 4: Babies in Britain cry more than babies in Japan, and nobody knows why.: http://www.livescience.com/58577-crying-and-colic-in-babies.html
Page 179, Position 1: The world’s biggest shopping mall has an indoor ski resort and a penguin colony .: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-uae-space-20170531-story.html
Page 179, Position 2: Pigs go ‘oink’ in Italy and Spain, ‘snork’ in South Africa, ‘groin’ in France and ‘buu buu’ in Japan.: http://www.bamfield.eu/sounds.php
Page 179, Position 3: The Curly-Coated Lincoln is an extinct breed of pig that had a woolly coat like a sheep.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_Curly_Coat
Page 179, Position 4: The world’s first self-service grocery shop was called Piggly Wiggly.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggly_Wiggly
Page 180, Position 1: Roald Dahl’s school report said: ‘I have never met anybody who so persistently writes words meaning the exact opposite of what is intended.’: http://www.independent.co.uk/student/scrumdiddlyumpious-in-praise-of-roald-dahl-8814505.html
Page 180, Position 2: Shops in Bristol are plagued by a ‘grammar vigilante’ who goes around correcting misplaced apostrophes on their sign’s.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-39459831/meet-the-grammar-vigilante-of-bristol
Page 180, Position 3: The most misspelled word in English is ‘separate’.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/7930745/Separate-is-most-commonly-misspelt-word.html
Page 180, Position 4: The word ‘nice’ is from the Latin nescius, which means ‘ignorant’.: http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2012/10/change-in-word-meanings/
Page 181, Position 1: Bats can swim.: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170320-the-cruel-experiments-that-revealed-most-mammals-can-swim?ocid=fbatl
Page 181, Position 2: Wally in Where’s Wally? is 80% smaller than when he first appeared in 1987.: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/wheres-wally-algorithm-shrinking
Page 181, Position 3: The world’s smallest bat weighs as much as a paper clip.: https://books.google.com/books?id=v-QnOb13YS8C&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=world%27s+smallest+bat+paper+clip&source=bl&ots=xrs0KuJ9mC&sig=mPx-PRsazLFqECcHK66pNokD4Uc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjOjc-67LfUAhVG6IMKHa21D1gQ6AEIQjAH
Page 181, Position 4: Vampire bats chase their prey on foot.: http://www.livescience.com/6908-yikes-vampire-bats-run.html
Page 182, Position 1: Olympic swimmers wear two swimming caps.: http://mentalfloss.com/uk/sport/45903/why-do-olympic-swimmers-wear-two-caps
Page 182, Position 2: Hippos can’t swim; they stroll about on the riverbed.: they stroll about on the riverbed.
Page 182, Position 3: Dumbo octopuses swim using their large ear-like protuberances.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimpoteuthis
Page 182, Position 4: The average public swimming pool contains enough urine to fill a dustbin.: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/01/how-much-pee-is-in-our-swimming-pools-new-urine-test-reveals-the-truth
Page 183, Position 1: Winston Churchill’s household spent £104,400 on wine each year.: http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21678752-gambler-who-saved-west-mr-high-roller?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/Mrhighroller
Page 183, Position 2: James Madison was the first US president to wear trousers.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Presidential_firsts
Page 183, Position 3: In the first two years of his reign, Henry VII spent £3 million on clothes.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/06/01/miserly-henry-vii-was-actually-a-shopaholic-who-spent-3-million/
Page 183, Position 4: François Hollande, the former French president, spent the equivalent of £99,000 per year on haircuts.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/13/hollande-accused-of-shampoo-socialism-as-it-is-revealed-he-spend/
Page 184, Position 1: There are lakes under the sea.: http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/news/general/lowfishbiodiversity.php
Page 184, Position 2: The wine in a £5 bottle of wine is worth 47p.: : http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/48653aae-1499-11e7-95d0-4f54ce31baae
Page 184, Position 3: The first Scottish wine, produced in 2015, was described by experts as ‘undrinkable’.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scotlands-first-homegrown-wine-declared-6067820
Page 184, Position 4: King Zhou of Shang built a wine lake in China and made naked men and women chase each other round it.: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zhou
Page 185, Position 1: There is no such thing as artificial salt.: s: http://www.cooksscience.com/articles/feature/salt-life/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 185, Position 2: Australia’s Pink Lake has bright-pink water.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Lake_(Western_Australia)
Page 185, Position 3: Blood Falls in Antarctica has bright-red water that is so salty it cannot freeze.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/antarcticas-blood-red-waterfall-180949507/
Page 185, Position 4: The ‘ice’ on the first artificial ice rink was made of pig fat and salt.: http://www.neatorama.com/2017/06/03/The-First-Artificial-Skating-Rinks-Looked-Pretty-But-Smelled-Terrible/
Page 186, Position 1: French football clubs cannot hire managers who are over 65.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4599010/Ranieri-deal-Nantes-delayed-age.html
Page 186, Position 2: Small icebergs are called ‘growlers’ because of the sound they make as they melt.: http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-bergy-bits.htm
Page 186, Position 3: When the Titanic first hit the iceberg, passengers played football with the bits of ice that fell on the deck.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tQhHAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=titanic+%22played+football%22+ice&source=bl&ots=XA3fTYnESw&sig=Ht9zDiymStyQ6GFlWZVJQt2PgdM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijwJP-gM_SAhXFDMAKHUKcBc0Q6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=titanic%20%22played%20football%22%20ice&f=false
Page 186, Position 4: Mob football, played in the Middle Ages between whole towns and villages, had an unlimited number of players and a pig’s-bladder ball.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_football
Page 187, Position 1: The Peter Principle holds that people are always promoted beyond their ability .: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Page 187, Position 2: Eric Cantona was banned for a month for throwing the ball at the referee, extended to two months after he told the disciplinary committee they were idiots.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/5322854/Eric-Cantonas-new-Cannes-do-attitude.html
Page 187, Position 3: Stupid people thinking they are clever and clever people thinking they aren’t is called the Dunning–Kruger effect.: http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/13/ten-weird-signs-that-you-are-highly-intelligent-according-to-science-6506511/
Page 187, Position 4: The Dilbert Principle is that the worst staff are put in middle management to limit the damage they can cause.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
Page 188, Position 1: Juma the Jaguar, mascot of the 2016 Rio Olympics, escaped before the games and was shot dead.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36593573
Page 188, Position 2: The crown prince of Thailand promoted his dog Fufu to Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Thai Air Force.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/05/thai-crown-prince-pet-poodle-air-chief-marshal-foo-foo-cremated
Page 188, Position 3: There has only been one dog in the Royal Navy: Able Seaman Just Nuisance.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Nuisance
Page 188, Position 4: New Zealand police have a guinea pig mascot called Constable Elliot.: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11848154
Page 189, Position 1: Amazon ships bubblewrap in bubblewrap.: https://www.methodshop.com/2014/07/bubble-wrap-amazon.shtml
Page 189, Position 2: During the first performance of the play HarryPotter and the Cursed Child, an owl got loose and flew out into the audience.: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-06-10/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-removes-live-owls-from-the-production
Page 189, Position 3: On Disneyland’s opening day, someone put a ladder in the car park and charged people $5 to climb over the hedge.: http://www.history.com/news/disneylands-disastrous-opening-day-60-years-ago
Page 189, Position 4: Popular items for Amazon customers in the Andaman Islands are ladders, brooms and mayonnaise.: http://www.thehindu.com/business/markets/art-of-selling-a-dog-bone-in-andamans/article18595246.ece?utm_source=true&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Newsletter
Page 190, Position 1: In Sweden, ‘spontaneous dancing’ was illegal until 2017.: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/spontaneous-dancing-is-finally-legal-in-sweden
Page 190, Position 2: Container ships contain basketball courts.: http://digg.com/2017/containers-episode-1?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 190, Position 3: ‘Monk’s balls’ are popular pastries in Argentina.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/argentina-pastries-political?utm_source=Today%27s+Headlines&utm_campaign=88c34a833e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b04355194f-88c34a833e-80384829
Page 190, Position 4: The Serbian for ‘pride’ means ‘diarrhoea’ in Russian.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/8e8e8cc8-10bc-11e7-9efc-104ca844d0d4
Page 191, Position 1: Lift operator Betty Lou Oliver holds the record for the longest survived fall: she fell 75 floors.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-25_Empire_State_Building_crash
Page 191, Position 2: The sprinting champion awarded the laurel wreath at the first Olympic Games was a baker.: http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/428775/Top-10-facts-about-sprinting
Page 191, Position 3: In 1986, London’s bakers apologised for the Great Fire of London, 320 years after it happened.: http://articles.latimes.com/1986-06-10/news/mn-9748_1_london-bakers
Page 191, Position 4: Since 2003, 166 people have fallen down the gap at Baker Street Tube station.: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/mind-the-gap-new-tube-trains-blamed-for-huge-rise-in-passenger-accidents-a3264531.html
Page 192, Position 1: There’s a hidden room in Mount Rushmore behind Lincoln’s head.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/91207/hidden-room-behind-mount-rushmore
Page 192, Position 2: The world’s fastest elevator travels at 47 mph.: http://newatlas.com/hitachi-worlds-fastest-elevator-guangzhou/49854/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=039bcd304c-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-039bcd304c-92793889
Page 192, Position 3: The Oval Office has pressure pads under the carpet so the Secret Service knows exactly where the president is at all times.: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-meltzer/top-seven-coolest-secrets_b_7584648.html
Page 192, Position 4: The 400 men who carved the presidents on Mount Rushmore had their own baseball team.: https://www.thenationalpastimemuseum.com/article/baseball-mount-rushmore
Page 193, Position 1: Headis is table tennis played with the head and a small football.: http://www.playph.com/7-unusual-sports-around-world/
Page 193, Position 2: Gustav Eiffel had a tiny apartment at the top of the Eiffel Tower with a grand piano in it.: http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/eiffel-tower-paris-secret-apartment
Page 193, Position 3: Hidden inside Grand Central Station is the Vanderbilt Tennis Club.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/vanderbilt-tennis-club
Page 193, Position 4: After unexpected rain during the 1971 Davis Cup, the tennis court was dried out by dousing it in petrol and setting it on fire.: http://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/11/archives/us-clinches-davis-cup-3-to1-smith-trounces-tiriac-in-3-sets-at.html?mcubz=2&_r=0.
Page 194, Position 1: No centipede has ever been found with exactly a hundred legs.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centipede
Page 194, Position 2: A caterpillar’s head contains 248 muscles.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=21z4DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA240&lpg=PA240&dq=caterpillar+head+capsule+alone+consists+of+248+individual+muscles&source=bl&ots=qzWGj-E9hj&sig=alA1eo1kYnzOC_Yb1Nl4dwJyJ9U&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV5-7HzMDUAhVsDsAKHdTQCJQQ6AEIRDAH#v=onepage&q=caterpillar%20head%20capsule%20alone%20consists%20of%20248%20individual%20muscles&f=false
Page 194, Position 3: Caterpillars retain their memories when they turn into moths.: https://www.wired.com/2008/03/butterflies-rem/
Page 194, Position 4: Illacme tobini is a millipede with 414 legs, 200 poison glands and four penises.: http://metro.co.uk/2016/10/25/what-has-414-legs-200-poison-glands-and-four-penises-this-isnt-a-joke-6215228/
Page 195, Position 1: Only 20% of fish species live in the sea.: http://sb.cc.stonybrook.edu/news/general/lowfishbiodiversity.php
Page 195, Position 2: Objects viewed from between the legs look smaller.: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/23/world/science-health-world/ig-nobels-go-scholar-studied-liars-one-put-pants-rats-another-lived-like-badger/
Page 195, Position 3: Tripod fish have three legs and stand at the bottom of the ocean.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathypterois_grallator
Page 195, Position 4: By 2050, the plastic in the world’s oceans will outweigh the fish.: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/19/more-plastic-than-fish-in-the-sea-by-2050-warns-ellen-macarthur
Page 196, Position 1: Until 1952, only male cavalry officers were permitted to compete in Olympic equestrian events.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/equestrianism/2016/02/26/rio-2016-olympics-equestrianism-guide/
Page 196, Position 2: The Queen bought six Big Mouth Billy Bass singing fish for Balmoral.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/4256473/No-wonder-the-Queen-whose-position-in-society-to-some-extent-parallels-Billy-Basss-finds-joy-in-his-touching-homily.html
Page 196, Position 3: The Queen’s 90th birthday presents included a silver Post-it note holder, an ostrich egg, two stags and a horse.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/19/horse-monopoly-set-queen-got-90th-birthday/
Page 196, Position 4: It is illegal in the UK to be drunk in charge of a horse.: http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Legal_Oddities.pdf
Page 197, Position 1: The first female American mayor was nominated for election by a group of men as a joke.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_M._Salter
Page 197, Position 2: The first event at the Olympic Games in 396 bc was a trumpet contest: the winner played the fanfare for all the other events.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herald_and_Trumpet_contest
Page 197, Position 3: In 2000, a 103-year-old man returned the official Olympic flag that he stole as a dare after coming third in diving at the 1920 Olympics.: http://london2012.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/olympic-flag-is-games-constant-symbol/?_r=1
Page 197, Position 4: The first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal didn’t realise she’d entered the Olympics.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-first-american-woman-to-win-an-olympic-championship-didnt-even-know-it
Page 198, Position 1: Apeirophobia is the fear of eternity .: http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/apeirophobia-the-fear-of-eternity/498368/
Page 198, Position 2: President Obama’s farewell speech mentioned ‘democracy’ 20 times – more than the farewell speeches of the previous 15 presidents combined.: https://qz.com/882736/obama-name-checked-democracy-20-times-in-his-farewell-speech-more-than-the-last-15-presidents-combined/
Page 198, Position 3: Barack Obama has an irrational fear of snowmen.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/barack-obama-prank-white-house-snowman-fear-phobia-instagram-photos-a7490796.html
Page 198, Position 4: Bear Grylls is scared of cocktail parties.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39334917
Page 199, Position 1: 80% of the world’s gold is yet to be found.: Gold Fever, One mans Adventures on the Trail of the Gold Rush by Steve Boggan
Page 199, Position 2: Alogotransiphobia is the fear of being caught on public transport without a book to read.: https://interestingliterature.com/2016/03/09/10-great-words-about-words/
Page 199, Position 3: Books used to be bound in otter skin.: https://paw.princeton.edu/article/princetons-vault-1
Page 199, Position 4: Sea otters in China used to be called ‘soft gold’, because their pelts were so valuable.: Daniel Allen, Otter.
Page 200, Position 1: A cow-smuggling tunnel has been discovered under the India–Pakistan border.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/cow-tunnel-smuggling
Page 200, Position 2: Norway’s Bouvet Island is so remote that after it was discovered in 1739, it was lost again for another 69 years.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bouvet-island
Page 200, Position 3: Every year, Ocean Shores, Washington, celebrates the night George Vancouver sailed past their harbour but didn’t discover it.: https://www.futilitycloset.com/2013/12/09/lost-history/
Page 200, Position 4: Geologists have discovered an eighth continent off the coast of Australia.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/16/scientists-discover-eighth-continent-zealandia/
Page 201, Position 1: 2016 was the first year since 1990 that none of Japan’s 4,000 public companies went bankrupt.: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-04/zombie-nation-in-japan-zero-public-companies-went-bust-in-2016
Page 201, Position 2: Some US farmers feed their cattle Skittles because they’re cheaper than corn.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/skittles-cows-corn-truck-crash-american-farmers-wisconsin-dodge-county-a7536731.html
Page 201, Position 3: A bank in Zimbabwe accepts cattle as collateral.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25156209
Page 201, Position 4: If you have £1,785 of savings, you are richer than half of the world’s population.: http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21710771-new-analysis-how-worlds-wealth-distributed-you-may-be-higher-up?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/
Page 202, Position 1: GCHQ has an internal ghost-hunting club.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/aug/01/gchq-spy-agency-nsa-edward-snowden
Page 202, Position 2: 100,000 Japanese disappear without trace every year.: http://metro.co.uk/2017/01/15/the-mystery-behind-japans-evaporating-people-6377711/
Page 202, Position 3: The ghost orchid, Britain’s rarest wild flower, reappeared 23 years after being declared extinct.: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/so-there-you-are-britains-rarest-wildflower-the-ghost-orchid-returns-from-the-dead-after-23-years-1923853.html
Page 202, Position 4: Washington DC is said to be haunted by DC the Demon Cat.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_Cat
Page 203, Position 1: The Post Office used to employ cats to stop mice from eating money orders.: https://postalheritage.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/museumcats-day-industrial-chaos-in-the-post-office-cat-world/
Page 203, Position 2: GCHQ code words for surveillance techniques include ‘nut allergy’, ‘country file’, ‘dirty devil’ and ‘clumsy beekeeper’.: https://search.edwardsnowden.com/docs/JTRIGToolsandTechniques2014-07-14nsadocs
Page 203, Position 3: The Pentagon has six ZIP codes.: https://pentagontours.osd.mil/Tours/facts-zip.jsp
Page 203, Position 4: Buckingham Palace has its own post office.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/fascinating-facts-about-buckingham-palace/
Page 204, Position 1: Thomas Mann’s daughter adapted a typewriter so her dog could write poetry.: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/04/09/the-typing-life/amp?client=safari
Page 204, Position 2: Thomas Hardy had a cat called Kiddleywinkempoops.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/quotes-about-love-and-romance/dickens/
Page 204, Position 3: Thomas Cromwell had four pet beavers.: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/27/new-thomas-cromwell-history-party-animal
Page 204, Position 4: Thomas Edison invented the word ‘hello’.: http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/05/garden/great-hello-mystery-is-solved.html
Page 205, Position 1: The only burp in Shakespeare is by Sir Toby Belch.: http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/666087/Ten-things-never-knew-One-Princess-Charlotte
Page 205, Position 2: The first typewriter was called ‘the writing harpsichord’.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/wonderland-steven-johnson-play-invention-innovation-design/
Page 205, Position 3: In Shakespeare’s day, plays were put on as soon as they were written; actors rehearsed using ‘foul papers’, the writer’s last handwritten draft.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foul_papers
Page 205, Position 4: September, October and November are not mentioned in any of Shakespeare’s works.: http://mentalfloss.com/uk/trivia/47375/11-autumnal-facts-about-october
Page 206, Position 1: Fish eaten by jellyfish cost South Korea up to $200 million a year in lost revenue.: https://thecorrespondent.com/4831/the-jellyfish-are-coming-brace-yourself-for-goomageddon/903664777499-c2d232ec
Page 206, Position 2: A large fart has about the same volume as a can of fizzy drink.: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-big-is-a-fart-somewhere-between-a-bottle-of-nail-polish-and-a-can-of-soda/?ex_cid=538twitter
Page 206, Position 3: Champagne bubbles are basically yeast farts.: https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/31/14135404/champagne-sparkling-wine-science-bubbles-physics-alcohol-hangovers-new-years
Page 206, Position 4: Carp can live without oxygen for months.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9848-how-carp-hold-their-breath-through-winter/
Page 207, Position 1: A French workman’s café was accidentally awarded a Michelin star in 2017 after a mix up with a Parisian restaurant of the same name.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/18/workmens-cafe-overwhelmed-customers-accidentally-given-michelin/
Page 207, Position 2: 225 Canadian fishermen die every year while urinating over the side of their boat.: http://www.lifesaving.ca/what-we-do/water-smart-public-education/boating-fishing-safety-tips/
Page 207, Position 3: 400,000 people died building the Great Wall of China.: http://uk.businessinsider.com/trump-wall-impossible-build-architects-2017-1?r=US&IR=T
Page 207, Position 4: The Roman emperor Domitian held a death-themed dinner party with black plates, charred food and conversations about murder and sudden death.: Orgy Planner Wanted
Page 208, Position 1: Prince Philip was born on a kitchen table in Corfu.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/10-things-might-not-know-prince-philip/?WT.mc_id=e_DM427697&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_FPM_New_AEM_Recipient&utm_source=email&utm_medium=Edi_FPM_New_AEM_Recipient_2017_05_04&utm_campaign=DM427697
Page 208, Position 2: Salvador Dalí went to restaurants with his pet ocelot, claiming it was a cat with a pattern painted on.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/10590019/Salvador-Dali-11-things-you-didnt-know.html
Page 208, Position 3: Penguins’ adult offspring return home and demand to be fed.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4313594/Galapagos-penguins-feed-grown-offspring.html
Page 208, Position 4: 7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/american-chocolate-milk-brown-cows-study-us-dairy-innvoation-adults-a7793016.html
Page 209, Position 1: The world is running out of sand.: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/29/the-world-is-running-out-of-sand
Page 209, Position 2: Hawaii gets bigger by 165 square metres every day.: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/big-picture-hawaii-volcano
Page 209, Position 3: All the world’s beaches lined up in a row would reach the Moon.: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/17/an-empty-beach-isnt-empty-at-all/
Page 209, Position 4: A grain of sand officially measures between 0.06 and 2 millimetres across.: https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/~/media/shared/documents/education%20and%20careers/Earth%20Science%20Week/esw12/GSL_Sand%20Grains%20Questionsv2.pdf?la=en
Page 210, Position 1: Army cutworm moths are 70% fat.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150910-the-fattest-animal-on-earth
Page 210, Position 2: All 436,800 sandwiches sold on the streets of London in 1851 were ham sandwiches.: http://essays.centreforlondon.org/issues/food/no-more-daily-bread/
Page 210, Position 3: ‘Sweet sizzlin’ green beans’ are 35% more likely to be ordered than ‘Healthy energy-boosting green beans’, even if prepared in the same way.: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/06/13/people-more-likely-eat-vegetables-seductive-names-sound-unhealthy/391748001/
Page 210, Position 4: Hungryfemale praying mantises pretend to be interested in sex and then eat any interested males who turn up.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/12/23/when-a-female-mantis-is-hungry-she-fakes-fertility-to-snack-on-duped-mates/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.6242d8043ab6
Page 211, Position 1: Seeds have brains that tell them when to sprout.: https://www.livescience.com/59396-plants-use-brainlike-structures.html
Page 211, Position 2: A pair of the world’s largest butterflies sell for $10,000 on the black market.: http://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/31/The-Ins-and-Outs-of-Exotic-Animal-Smuggling/
Page 211, Position 3: Butterflies use their tongues like drinking straws.: http://mypages.iit.edu/~smart/pearkat/lesson1.htm
Page 211, Position 4: A woodpecker’s tongue is coiled around its brain.: http://www.birdwatchingdaily.com/blog/2013/12/10/woodpeckers-can-hammer-without-getting-headaches/
Page 212, Position 1: Giraffes have blue tongues, and nobody knows why.: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/why-do-some-animals-have-blue-tongues
Page 212, Position 2: Tumbleweeds are native to Russia, not the US.: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/12/tumbleweeds/johnson-text
Page 212, Position 3: The world’s leading cannabis expert has never smoked a joint.: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/marijuana-expert-never-smoked-joint-raphael-mechoulam-medical-cannabis-research-thc-a7658731.html
Page 212, Position 4: No human beings have ever had sex in space.: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/space-sex-is-serious-business/?ex_cid=SigDig
Page 213, Position 1: Half the wild boars in the Czech Republic are radioactive.: http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-czech-boars-idUKKBN1611G0
Page 213, Position 2: There is a Guinness World Record for ‘most matchsticks extinguished with the tongue’.: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/111405-most-matchsticks-extinguished-with-the-tongue-in-one-minute
Page 213, Position 3: The longest single jump by a bullfrog was 4 feet 3 inches.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-of-winning-leaps-at-the-calaveras-county-frog-jumping-competition-2277694/
Page 213, Position 4: Polka-dot tree frogs are fluorescent.: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/first-fluorescent-tree-frog
Page 214, Position 1: There is only one documented case of an elephant giving birth to triplets.: http://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/21-41-Tilakaratne.pdf
Page 214, Position 2: Mouse livers grow 40% larger at night.: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/05/04/liver-grow-and-shrink/#.WXh5ETLMy3c
Page 214, Position 3: 40% of elephants in captivity are obese.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/fat-threatens-elephants-with-heart-disease-and-its-hard-to-weigh-them/2014/07/21/ffe8c5b2-0ea5-11e4-8c9a-923ecc0c7d23_story.html?utm_term=.799c3c2be1ae
Page 214, Position 4: Elephants disperse seeds up to 40 miles away.: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/amazing-african-elephants-may-transport-seeds-farther-any-other-land-animal
Page 215, Position 1: Identical twins don’t run in families.: http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/2550.aspx?CategoryID=54
Page 215, Position 2: Twins live longer than non-twins.: http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/08/18/twins-especially-male-identical-twins-live-longer/
Page 215, Position 3: Identical twins live longer than non-identical twins.: http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/08/18/twins-especially-male-identical-twins-live-longer/
Page 215, Position 4: Identical male twins live longer than identical female twins.: http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/08/18/twins-especially-male-identical-twins-live-longer/
Page 216, Position 1: When the BBC remade Swallows and Amazons in 2016, Titty was renamed Tatty .: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/23/family-of-swallows-and-amazons-titty--furious-as-bbc-film-change/
Page 216, Position 2: The royal family uses the word ‘smart’ instead of ‘posh’.: http://lifestyle.one/grazia/celebrity/news/royal-family-words-banned/
Page 216, Position 3: ‘Posh’ boys’ names suggested by Tatler include Barclay, Mao, Uxorious and Npeter (the ‘N’ is silent).: http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/figgy-gethsemane-quail-and-ra-tatler-names-its-top-posh-baby-names-for-2017-a3432596.html
Page 216, Position 4: ‘Posh’ girls’ names suggested by Tatler include Czar-Czar, Estonia, Hum and Figgy .: http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/figgy-gethsemane-quail-and-ra-tatler-names-its-top-posh-baby-names-for-2017-a3432596.html
Page 217, Position 1: The US presidential limo is called ‘The Beast’.: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency?utm_source=Quartz+Morning+Brief&utm_campaign=c874d5f793-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ff2527dbb-c874d5f793-57548377
Page 217, Position 2: The first English librarian was named Edward Edwards.: https://archive.org/stream/edwardedwardschi00greeuoft/edwardedwardschi00greeuoft_djvu.txt
Page 217, Position 3: The spokesman for the British Leafy Salads Association is called Dieter Lloyd.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38851097
Page 217, Position 4: The director of dance at the Paris Opera Ballet from 2014 to 2016 was Benjamin Millepied.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35491842
Page 218, Position 1: Ladybirds bleed poison when threatened.: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/group/ladybugs/
Page 218, Position 2: The wife of US President Lyndon B. Johnson had a brother called Thomas Jefferson.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson
Page 218, Position 3: LBJ’s wife’s name was ‘Bird’; when she became First Lady, she was known as Lady Bird.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Bird_Johnson
Page 218, Position 4: A group of ladybirds is called a ‘loveliness’.: http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/wildlife/homesforwildlife/m/hfwwildlife/66139.aspx
Page 219, Position 1: A smell-feast is someone who shows up to a party just for the food.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=meJGTvuB7A4C&pg=PA58&dq=smell-feast&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYmpjH47PVAhWPJ1AKHTqWC1MQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=smell-feast&f=false
Page 219, Position 2: To make themselves appear more threatening, western spotted skunks do handstands.: http://wild.enature.com/blog/the-spotted-skunk-is-one-stinky-acrobat
Page 219, Position 3: The surname Smellie has become 71% less common since 1881.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1164721/R-I-P-Smellie-Bottom-Balls--surnames-dying-embarrassment.html
Page 219, Position 4: The bird-dung crab spider looks and smells like dung and eats flies that are attracted to it.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28124-zoologger-a-spider-that-looks-and-smells-like-bird-droppings/
Page 220, Position 1: Female deep-sea squid store sperm in their arms.: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2011/sep/21/male-squid-mate-sex-dark
Page 220, Position 2: The word ‘rooster’ was coined so Americans didn’t have to use the word ‘cock’.: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=rooster&allowed_in_frame=0
Page 220, Position 3: Cockerels lure hens for sex by pretending to have found food.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/stunned-scientists-find-out-chickens-9566964
Page 220, Position 4: Female market squid display fake testicles to avoid the advances of males.: http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/11/female-squid-turn-testes-off-on-ocean-science/
Page 221, Position 1: All octopuses are venomous but only the blue-ringed octopus is harmful to humans.: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/science-news/news/1675/
Page 221, Position 2: Squid can edit their own brain genes.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2127103-squid-and-octopus-can-edit-and-direct-their-own-brain-genes/
Page 221, Position 3: You can predict the winner of a fight between two octopuses by looking at their colours.: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/inkfish/2016/02/17/octopus-colors-predict-the-winners-of-fights/
Page 221, Position 4: Female blanket octopuses are 10,000 times heavier than the males.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0212_030212_walnutoctopus_2.html
Page 222, Position 1: Whales communicate by jumping out of the water and splashing on the surface.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2114953-whales-talk-to-each-other-by-slapping-out-messages-on-water/
Page 222, Position 2: Seattle Aquarium holds a Valentine’s event where you can watch octopuses mating.: http://gizmodo.com/fearing-cannibalism-aquarium-cancels-valentines-day-oc-1759188834
Page 222, Position 3: Visiting an aquarium can lower your blood pressure.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33716589
Page 222, Position 4: The mouth of the blue whale at Gothenburg’s Natural History Museum used to have a café in it.: https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/2016/05/21/gothenburgs-malm-whale/14637528003254
Page 223, Position 1: More than 350 languages are spoken in Mexico, as well as Spanish.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/also_in_the_news/7097647.stm
Page 223, Position 2: Killer whales can learn to speak dolphin.: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141007111055.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29
Page 223, Position 3: English speakers can learn French in half the time it takes to learn Welsh.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/time-takes-become-fluent-another-9297677
Page 223, Position 4: The world’s largest Spanish-speaking country is Mexico.: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/29/us-second-biggest-spanish-speaking-country
Page 224, Position 1: William Shatner insisted a Star Trek script be rewritten so that Kirk, rather than Spock, had the first interracial kiss on TV .: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5941608/10-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about-star-trek-the-original-series
Page 224, Position 2: In the Spanish version of Terminator 2, Arnie says ‘Sayonara, baby’ rather than ‘Hasta la vista, baby’.: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/25/what-the-terminator-says-inste.html
Page 224, Position 3: In the Japanese version of Terminator 2, Arnie says ‘Cheerio, love’.: http://boingboing.net/2017/04/25/what-the-terminator-says-inste.html
Page 224, Position 4: Before Star Trek, William Shatner starred in Incubus, where the dialogue was all in Esperanto.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incubus_(1966_film)
Page 225, Position 1: NASA invented invisible braces.: https://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/40-years-of-nasa-spinoff/invisible-braces/
Page 225, Position 2: There have been no weddings in St Hilda’s Church in Yorkshire for 12 years because of a bat infestation.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-18276908/churchgoers-being-driven-away-by-bats
Page 225, Position 3: Bats contain more viruses that are dangerous to humans than any other species.: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/bats-really-do-harbor-more-dangerous-viruses-other-species
Page 225, Position 4: In medieval Germany , it was thought that wearing the left eye of a bat as a talisman would make you invisible.: An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural _ James Randi
Page 226, Position 1: Fossilised excrement is worth more if it has ‘the classic poo look’.: https://www.livescience.com/56872-fossilized-poop-collection-world-record.html
Page 226, Position 2: According to state law in New Mexico, Pluto is still a planet.: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8922998
Page 226, Position 3: The global beauty and anti-ageing industry is worth $999 billion a year.: https://www.globalwellnessinstitute.org/wellness-now-a-372-trillion-global-industry/
Page 226, Position 4: Ostrich feathers were once worth as much as diamonds.: https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/london-metropolitan-archives/the-collections/Pages/ostrich-feather-trade.aspx
Page 227, Position 1: Hyperthymesia is the inability to ever forget anything.: http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-628-donE28099t-say-we-didnt-warn-you-22-bizarre-medical-stories/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-weekly-20170606
Page 227, Position 2: Sloths excrete only once a week.: https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/sep/21/top-10-numbers-for-random-facts-adam-frost
Page 227, Position 3: Polar bears can smell seals 40 miles away.: https://www.nps.gov/yose/blogs/bear-series-part-one-a-bears-sense-of-smell.htm
Page 227, Position 4: The smell of rosemary improves children’s memories.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-39780544
Page 228, Position 1: Tube trains are cleaned with magnetic wands.: http://www.itv.com/news/london/2017-06-23/magnetic-wands-help-tackle-dangerous-superbugs-on-the-tube/
Page 228, Position 2: Cryptomnesia is when a memory floats into your conscious mind and you mistake it for an original idea.: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/26/cryptomnesia-psychology-of-writing/
Page 228, Position 3: HarryBeck designed the iconic London Underground map for a one-off fee of 10 guineas.: https://www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do/harry-beck-and-londons-iconic-tube-map-1
Page 228, Position 4: 90% of London Underground stations are north of the Thames.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/london/articles/London-Underground-150-fascinating-Tube-facts/
Page 229, Position 1: Almond orchards use 10% of the water in California.: http://www.almonds.com/get-facts-about-almonds-and-water
Page 229, Position 2: Mars has no magnetic field.: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everything-about-mars-is-the-worst/?ex_cid=SigDig
Page 229, Position 3: All Dutch trains run on wind energy.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/10/dutch-trains-100-percent-wind-powered-ns
Page 229, Position 4: California generates almost half the solar energy in the US.: https://qz.com/948748/our-obsession-with-the-cult-of-the-entrepreneur-has-gone-too-far/
Page 230, Position 1: Plants can tell the time better than people.: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/gizmodo.com/plants-can-tell-time-way-better-than-you-can-1795257824/amp
Page 230, Position 2: Texas has over 1,300 different kinds of soil.: http://boingboing.net/2017/02/10/geologists-on-the-impossible-l.html
Page 230, Position 3: The average British garden contains over 20,000 slugs and snails.: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi-wKzk47PVAhWJLlAKHdmPCbsQFggzMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.express.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fnature%2F805965%2FUK-slug-invasion-spanish-slug-how-to-kill-Britain&usg=AFQjCNFxS34To2LWE79k3DyqStoEgkucqQ
Page 230, Position 4: Half of British gardeners cannot name a single shrub.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/21/survey-finds-half-british-gardeners-cannot-name-single-shrub/
Page 231, Position 1: Surgeons often operate to music.: https://qz.com/936920/new-york-presbyterian-hospital-released-a-playlist-of-all-the-songs-to-which-you-can-do-cpr/
Page 231, Position 2: Trees have their own songs.: https://www.theatlantic.com/please-support-us/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fscience%2Farchive%2F2017%2F04%2Ftrees-have-their-own-songs%2F521742%2F#seen
Page 231, Position 3: The father of Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, wrote songs for Bing Crosby.: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/may/14/is-paul-dacre-most-dangerous-man-in-britain-daily-mail
Page 231, Position 4: Adam Ant’s mum was Paul McCartney’s cleaner.: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightlife-news/adam-ant-erics-leathers-paul-9058824
Page 232, Position 1: Prince Charles has waited longer to become king than any heir to the throne in British history.: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 232, Position 2: Richard III was a blue-eyed blond.: https://qz.com/936920/new-york-presbyterian-hospital-released-a-playlist-of-all-the-songs-to-which-you-can-do-cpr/
Page 232, Position 3: William IV’s head was shaped like a pineapple.: http://matt-history.weebly.com/william-iv.html
Page 232, Position 4: George III didn’t see the sea till he was 34 years old.: A History of England in 100 Places. John Julius Norwich.
Page 233, Position 1: Data has overtaken oil as the world’s most valuable resource.: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21721656-data-economy-demands-new-approach-antitrust-rules-worlds-most-valuable-resource
Page 233, Position 2: Human DNA begins to degenerate at 55 years old.: http://sciencenordic.com/we-lose-control-our-dna-age-55
Page 233, Position 3: DNA testing is mandatory in Kuwait.: http://www.iflscience.com/technology/dna-testing-now-mandatory-kuwait/
Page 233, Position 4: If all the data from all of human history were encoded onto DNA, it would fit into a container the size and weight of two pickup trucks.: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/dna-could-store-all-worlds-data-one-room
Page 234, Position 1: Ethiopia has a space programme.: https://qz.com/962128/the-rush-to-develop-african-space-programs-point-to-the-continents-technological-and-scientific-ambitions/
Page 234, Position 2: India is the world’s largest exporter of beef.: http://time.com/3833931/india-beef-exports-rise-ban-buffalo-meat/
Page 234, Position 3: The Department of Medals at India’s Ministry of Defence doesn’t make any medals, it just buys them at the market.: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/For-men-in-uniform-panoply-of-duplicates/article16979219.ece?utm_source=true&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Newsletter
Page 234, Position 4: The UK’s Ministry of Defence owns three and a half times as many pieces of fine art as it does warships, tanks, helicopters, planes and submarines.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a7d4ad16-b41e-11e6-a484-48e510ab58d4
Page 235, Position 1: Venus Williams has spent more than a year of her life at Wimbledon.: http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/news/articles/2017-07-05/venus_extends_her_stay.html
Page 235, Position 2: Iceland imports ice cubes.: https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/world/selling-ice-iceland/
Page 235, Position 3: Australia moves 2.7 inches a year.: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/24/world/what-in-the-world/australia-continental-drift-location-gps.html?ex_cid=newsletter
Page 235, Position 4: No one is ever born in Vatican City .: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/surprising-facts-about-the-vatican-city/vatican-citizens/
Page 236, Position 1: The halfway line at Brazil’s Zerão football stadium runs exactly along the equator.: https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/whats-special-little-stadium-brazil-200310652.html
Page 236, Position 2: The word ‘queue’ is the only word in English that sounds the same if you remove four of its letters.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a8t5CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
Page 236, Position 3: On average, people will wait six minutes in a queue before giving up.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/16/rule-six-governs-long-queue-shop/
Page 236, Position 4: People are reluctant to join a queue of more than six people.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/16/rule-six-governs-long-queue-shop/
Page 237, Position 1: Argentinian footballer Carlos Tevez earns £1 a second.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-zed/1-per-second-crazy-numbers-9492520
Page 237, Position 2: David Beckham owns over 1,000 pairs of football boots.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1z8XT9v15wPV17CygBJCY7S/12-things-we-learnt-from-david-beckham-s-desert-island-discs
Page 237, Position 3: To cover Gareth Bale’s salary, Real Madrid need to sell 1.2 million football shirts per year.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/29638560
Page 237, Position 4: American football teams can have up to six captains, but only one gets to call the coin toss.: https://nflcommunications.com/Documents/2016%20Releases/2016%20Rulebook_Combined.pdf
Page 238, Position 1: There are only 70 wolves in Norway.: http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21722470-two-wild-species-battle-sheep-farmers-and-prions-norways-wolves-are-being-hunted-its-reindeer-are?fsrc=gnews
Page 238, Position 2: Kendo masters get paid nothing.: https://www.tofugu.com/japan/kendo/
Page 238, Position 3: Elephant polo is popular in India, Nepal and Thailand.: http://uk.businessinsider.com/unusual-sports-around-the-world-2016-3/#elephant-polo-is-just-like-regular-polo-except-on-an-elephant--it-even-requires-the-same-equipment-this-sport-is-popular-in-nepal-india-and-thailand-9
Page 238, Position 4: In Thailand, it is illegal to own more than 120 playing cards.: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi317fs47PVAhVCZlAKHQM9CHUQFggtMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPlaying_Cards_Act&usg=AFQjCNExHOE9N4z8HFjgrBWyMXuyvJ1PYw
Page 239, Position 1: The most murderous mammals are meerkats.: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwich72Z5LPVAhWIA8AKHccQA58QFggtMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fscience%2Fmeerkats-revealed-as-the-most-murderous-mammal-known-to-science-a7335741.html&usg=AFQjCNFll8I6KHHgMFWucHR2auCnDdsYmg
Page 239, Position 2: The Viking King Olaf Tryggvason could jog round the outside of his longship on its oars while it was being rowed.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings#Sports
Page 239, Position 3: Iceland’s elite police counter-terrorism unit is known as the Viking Squad.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/23/iceland-gripped-by-rare-case-as-womans-body-is-found
Page 239, Position 4: Firing squad is a legal method of execution in Oklahoma.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_firing_squad
Page 240, Position 1: Dolphins have no vocal cords.: http://www.whalefacts.org/how-do-dolphins-breathe/
Page 240, Position 2: Cats have whiskers on their front paws as well as their faces.: https://www.pets4homes.co.uk/pet-advice/why-do-cats-have-whiskers-on-their-front-legs.html
Page 240, Position 3: Seals have retractable nipples.: http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2015/10/09/lactation_in_mammals_humans_whales_seals_bats_and_echidnas.html
Page 240, Position 4: Wolves have a sense of fair play.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-40205808
Page 241, Position 1: Bumblebees can learn to play golf.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2122383-bees-learn-to-play-golf-and-show-off-how-clever-they-really-are/
Page 241, Position 2: Cockroaches have no ears.: http://www.doderohearing.com/blog/how-do-cockroaches-cats-and-other-species-hear/
Page 241, Position 3: Orang-utans are good at charades.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070802091437.htm
Page 241, Position 4: A group of opossums is called a ‘grin’.: http://researchmaniacs.com/CollectiveNouns/Animals/What-is-a-group-of-Opossums-called.html
Page 242, Position 1: Oslo has a ‘bee highway’ that is planted with flowers and winds through the city .: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/norway-has-highway-bees-180955703/
Page 242, Position 2: Ancient beekeepers took their beehives on hikes if there weren’t enough flowers near by.: Orgy Planner Wanted
Page 242, Position 3: Bumblebees can make a flower open by buzzing in middle C.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/honeybees-honey-insects-pollen-agriculture/
Page 242, Position 4: Male bees sometimes chase aeroplanes in mistake for female bees.: http://bumblebeeconservation.org/images/uploads/Buzzword/Buzzword_19_final.pdf
Page 243, Position 1: When Winston Churchill got really angry , he would throw his teeth across the room.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-10795088
Page 243, Position 2: Norway has a ‘tooth bank’ which is aiming to collect 100,000 milk teeth.: http://www.uib.no/en/rg/biomaterial/67983/•-tooth-bankê-project-received-grants-tannlege-einar-bergersens-legat
Page 243, Position 3: The Mayans drilled holes in their teeth to fit precious stones in.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090518-first-dentists.html
Page 243, Position 4: 40% of toothbrushes have red handles.: Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends by Martin Lindstrom
Page 244, Position 1: Comet West appeared in 1976; its previous visit took place before humans existed, and it will return in 250,000 years.: http://www.space.com/17918-9-most-brilliant-great-comets.html
Page 244, Position 2: Winston Churchill believed in aliens.: http://www.nature.com/news/winston-churchill-s-essay-on-alien-life-found-1.21467
Page 244, Position 3: After investigation, only 1.8% of UFOs remain ‘unidentified’.: Flim Flam _ James Randi
Page 244, Position 4: The first British plan to put a man on the Moon was made by Oliver Cromwell’s brother-in-law.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/cromwells-moonshot-how-one-jacobean-scientist-tried-to-kick-off-the-space-race-7907149.html
Page 245, Position 1: The Ottoman Empire was so large that it takes 21 countries to cover the area today.: 'Peter the Great'. Robert K Massie
Page 245, Position 2: Cosmic dust left over from the dawn of time has been found on rooftops in Paris.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/12/06/cosmic-dust-found-rooftops-paris/
Page 245, Position 3: Since 1993, the Hubble Space Telescope has been the source for 25% of all published astronomy papers.: http://discovermagazine.com/2008/sep/27-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-telescopes
Page 245, Position 4: In 1900, France built a telescope which was so long it couldn’t be pointed at the sky.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Paris_Exhibition_Telescope_of_1900
Page 246, Position 1: Dragonflies have a kill rate of 95%.: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/science/dragonflies-natures-deadly-drone-but-prettier.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=science&pagewanted=all
Page 246, Position 2: In the Ottoman Empire, anyone who took the throne would kill all his brothers to stop them assassinating him.: 'Peter the Great'. Robert K Massie
Page 246, Position 3: Kookaburras have a hook in their top beak which is specifically designed for murdering their siblings.: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2000/10/23/201846.htm
Page 246, Position 4: The most destructive predator in New Zealand is the possum.: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/29/silicon-valley-new-zealand-apocalypse-escape
Page 247, Position 1: There’s a set of German traffic lights that have been on red for 30 years.: https://www.thelocal.de/20150615/there-is-a-light-that-never-goes-out
Page 247, Position 2: Dragonflies can see directly behind themselves.: http://listverse.com/2013/04/18/10-surprisingly-brutal-facts-about-dragonflies/
Page 247, Position 3: The purple sea urchin’s body acts as one giant eye.: NatGeo Feb 2016
Page 247, Position 4: Sulfhemoglobinemia is a condition where a person develops green blood.: http://www.cracked.com/pictofacts-628-donE28099t-say-we-didnt-warn-you-22-bizarre-medical-stories/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-weekly-20170606
Page 248, Position 1: An Essex egg farmer massively increased his output by playing Radio 2 to his hens for 15 hours a day.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/essex/5172712.stm
Page 248, Position 2: Preference for the colour yellow declines with age.: https://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/Choosing/colour-personality.htm
Page 248, Position 3: Yellow cars are the least likely to have an accident.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/92999/yellow-actually-optimal-taxi-color
Page 248, Position 4: The toy case in a Kinder Surprise is yellow to represent an egg yolk.: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kinder-surprise-toy-case-colour-yellow_uk_58b53fd0e4b0780bac2cebbe
Page 249, Position 1: Aristotle thought plants had souls.: Brilliant Green: The Surprising History & Science of Plant Intelligence by Stefano Mancuso and Alessandra Viola (Island Press, 2015) p13
Page 249, Position 2: Test tube babies thrive if played techno music 24 hours a day.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/91f9c406-db5e-11e6-b8ce-5a639b2dfcaa
Page 249, Position 3: Illegal baby names in New Zealand include Lucifer, Christ and Messiah.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/10029482/New-Zealand-says-no-to-bizarre-baby-names-4Real-Juztice-and-Lucifer.html
Page 249, Position 4: 54% of Americans believe science conflicts with religion, but not with their own.: https://relevantmagazine.com/slice/study-most-americans-believe-science-conflicts-with-others-religion-not-their-own/
Page 250, Position 1: Wind turbines were invented almost 150 years ago.: https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21717371-thats-no-reason-governments-stop-supporting-them-wind-and-solar-power-are-disrupting
Page 250, Position 2: On 4 April 2017, there were 335,765,099 different products available on Amazon.: https://www.scrapehero.com/how-many-products-are-sold-on-amazon-com-january-2017-report/
Page 250, Position 3: 40% of pages in LEGO catalogues contain some kind of violence.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36356604
Page 250, Position 4: LEGO is part-owner of the world’s largest wind turbine.: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/lego-unveils-massive-world-record-13045056
Page 251, Position 1: The Oxford English Dictionary was originally offered to Cambridge.: https://blog.oup.com/2017/03/making-oxford-english-dictionary/
Page 251, Position 2: The word ‘soon’ used to mean ‘right now’.: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=soon
Page 251, Position 3: The Yorkshire greeting ‘eh up’ was originally used by Vikings.: http://www.viking.no/e/england/yorkshire_norse.htm
Page 251, Position 4: Vladimir Nabokov used the word ‘mauve’ 44 times more often than it usually appears in English.: http://www.npr.org/sections/monkeysee/2017/03/31/521836700/nabokovs-favorite-word-is-mauve-crunches-the-literary-numbers
Page 252, Position 1: Sir James Dyson owns more English farmland than the Queen.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peasants-revolt-as-celebrities-hoover-up-the-countryside-7mjklk3g9
Page 252, Position 2: King’s College, Cambridge, has won more Nobel Prizes than France.: http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/topstories/man-who-brought-you-brexit/ar-BBwNpZE?ocid=MSN_UK_NL_M_NO_06OCT16
Page 252, Position 3: Italy has more bank robberies than the rest of Europe combined.: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/05/the-italian-job-2.html
Page 252, Position 4: The king of Rwanda lives in a terraced house in Manchester.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/12/rwandas-new-king-named-a-father-of-two-living-on-an-estate-near-manchester
Page 253, Position 1: Scientists can tell how old you are from the fingerprint smudges on your phone.: Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends by Martin Lindstrom
Page 253, Position 2: Britons use the winking emoji twice as often as any other nationality .: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/emoji-use-canada-smiling-poop-french-heart-italian-bananas-brits
Page 253, Position 3: There are emojis for ‘asshat’, ‘douchebag’ and ‘cockwomble’.: https://qz.com/932782/the-science-of-why-most-emoji-curses-dont-work-and-one-definitely-does/
Page 253, Position 4: The dung piles of white rhinos are their social network, telling other rhinos how they are.: https://apple.news/AXD20ZBfrSaK7xsKQox5DyQ
Page 254, Position 1: In Wisconsin, the word people most often google ‘how to spell’ is ‘Wisconsin’.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/05/31/googles-breakdown-of-what-americans-dont-know-how-to-spell-state-by-state/?utm_term=.743b11f8852e&wpisrc=nl_most-draw8&wpmm=1
Page 254, Position 2: Humans have adapted the way they walk so they can look at their phones.: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/humans-are-evolving-to-adopt-a-text-shuffle-to-use-phones-whilst-walking-10426774.html
Page 254, Position 3: ‘What is my IP?’ is the most common search on Google.: https://www.mondovo.com/keywords/most-asked-questions-on-google
Page 254, Position 4: Every month, as many people google ‘How to make slime’ as ‘How to make love’.: https://www.mondovo.com/keywords/most-asked-questions-on-google
Page 255, Position 1: Most dogs prefer praise to food.: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/dogs-would-rather-get-belly-rub-treat
Page 255, Position 2: The most misspelled word in New Mexico is ‘banana’.: http://digg.com/2017/map-commonly-misspelled-words-by-state?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 255, Position 3: The first monkey known to have got drunk was reported in 1779 by the ship’s doctor on HMS Dorchester.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EnoJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT128&lpg=PT128&dq=hms+dorchester+monkey+drunk&source=bl&ots=X440-mJxB2&sig=4zrOReng2iol1jcMIB854Z_Ffq4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwld6TsO_RAhVEi5AKHfjLBC8Q6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=hms%20dorchester%20monkey%20drunk&f=false
Page 255, Position 4: Dogs prefer humans who are kind to other humans.: New Scientist 18 Feb 17
Page 256, Position 1: A million dollars in used $10 notes would come with a bonus of 1.17 cents’ worth of cocaine.: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2017/02/06/6060/#.WJhsELaLSu4
Page 256, Position 2: 98% of Britons consider themselves to be among the nicest 50% of the population.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9763d7b4-076a-11e7-a9a4-674e2ac78952
Page 256, Position 3: Violent criminals rate themselves more moral, kind, self-controlled and honest than the average person.: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~crsi/Sedikides%20Meek%20Alicke%20%20Taylor%202014%20BJSP.pdf
Page 256, Position 4: In 1880s gangland New York, having someone punched cost $2, but there was a $15 charge for chewing their ear off.: http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2017/02/murder-among-whyos-part1.html
Page 257, Position 1: The 1976 Montreal Olympics overspent its budget by 720%.: http://boingboing.net/2016/07/14/its-official-the-olympics-e.html
Page 257, Position 2: The International Olympic Committee declared the 1980 Moscow Olympics ‘the first drug-free Olympics’.: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-18/russia-olympic-doping-scandal-hangover-ussr-soviet-era/7756632
Page 257, Position 3: For the Rio Olympics, 70,000 families were displaced.: http://www.the42.ie/david-golblatt-dark-history-olympic-games-2919566-Aug2016/?utm_source=twitter_self
Page 257, Position 4: The average Olympic Games goes 156% over its budget.: http://boingboing.net/2016/07/14/its-official-the-olympics-e.html
Page 258, Position 1: There is a Danish myth that you can get drunk by soaking your feet in vodka.: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2014/10/17/sorry-matter-long-soak-feet-vodka-will-never-get-drunk/#.WU_A-RPyvq0
Page 258, Position 2: The average person spends 375 days in a lifetime folding laundry.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38047950
Page 258, Position 3: Only 10% of homes in India have a washing machine.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39176358
Page 258, Position 4: The sandals of the Pueblo people of New Mexico had enough space for six toes.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/chaco-canyon-pueblo-bonito-social-implications-polydactyly-extra-toes/
Page 259, Position 1: The record number of people dressed like Einstein in one place is 404.: http://forward.com/culture/367586/a-bunch-of-canadian-albert-einstein-look-alikes-just-broke-a-guinness-world/
Page 259, Position 2: After migration, birds overeat and stagger around, ‘drunk’ on food.: http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2009/12/24/gary-bogue-drunk-robins-its-a-myth-that-those-birds-are-drunk-on-berries/
Page 259, Position 3: In 2013, American competitive eater Joey Chestnut ate 141 eggs in eight minutes.: http://www.majorleagueeating.com/contests.php?action=detail&eventID=572
Page 259, Position 4: Guinness dropped speed-eating records in 1991.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records
Page 260, Position 1: People who use Google Glass spectacles are known as Glassholes.: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-glassholes-are-handling-the-end-of-google-glass
Page 260, Position 2: The mathematics that makes Wi-Fi possible was developed by a team of physicists looking for tiny black holes.: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/09/18/3590519.htm
Page 260, Position 3: Nobody knows how many holes there are in the human body. Most of them are for sweat ducts and hair follicles.: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5984591/you-probably-dont-know-how-many-holes-are-in-your-body-right-now
Page 260, Position 4: 1 in 100 Britons are born with a tiny hole in the top of their ears.: http://metro.co.uk/2016/11/20/1-in-100-of-brits-are-born-with-a-tiny-extra-hole-above-their-ears-heres-why-6270929/
Page 261, Position 1: The human body produces a gallon of mucus a day.: http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1997-03/856841521.An.r.html
Page 261, Position 2: Head lice lay eggs to match your hair colour.: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/pediatrics/126/2/392.full.pdf
Page 261, Position 3: The mola fish lays 300 million eggs but only two of them will make it to adulthood.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/animals-with-most-offspring-fish-eggs-reproduction/
Page 261, Position 4: Italy produces 44,000 tonnes of snails a year. Their eggs are sold as caviar and their mucus is used in skin creams.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/05/italys-snail-farmers-having-slime-lives-niche-beauty-product/
Page 262, Position 1: Older fish live longer if fed the faeces of younger fish.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/respect-sharks-are-older-than-trees-3818/
Page 262, Position 2: Tuna are more closely related to humans than to sharks.: http://www.academia.edu/21411139/Sharks_and_tuna_share_a_trait_called_RM_endothermy
Page 262, Position 3: Every winter, great white sharks swim for 40 days to meet up between Mexico and Hawaii, and nobody knows why.: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2016/07/why_do_great_white_sharks_converge_on_a_mysterious_point_in_the_pacific.html
Page 262, Position 4: Sharks are older than trees.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/respect-sharks-are-older-than-trees-3818/
Page 263, Position 1: Some face mites can’t excrete, so they eat until they explode.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23231040-400-comb-jelly-videos-are-rewriting-the-history-of-your-anus/
Page 263, Position 2: Smelts are fish that smell of cucumber.: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-fish-that-smells-like-cucumber-1.22153
Page 263, Position 3: Sea cucumbers fire their gonads out of their bodies to distract predators.: http://echinoblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/sea-cucumber-evisceration-defense.html
Page 263, Position 4: The polyclad flatworm has multiple anuses on its back.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20150313-the-origin-of-the-anus
Page 264, Position 1: The British Tarantula Society was founded by Ann Webb.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/best-in-show-spiders-british-tarantula-society-180955306/
Page 264, Position 2: The McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish was invented for Catholics who couldn’t eat meat on Fridays.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-fishy-history-of-the-mcdonalds-filet-o-fish-sandwich-2912
Page 264, Position 3: During Lent, fasting is suspended on Sundays.: http://www.latintimes.com/when-does-lent-2017-start-and-end-how-long-does-it-last-411625
Page 264, Position 4: Tarantulas can last two years between meals.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9tD_hbixuoYC&pg=PA35&dq
Page 265, Position 1: 60% of people eating chocolate rabbits bite the ears off first.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170404090032.htm
Page 265, Position 2: The finance director of QuidditchUK is called Megan Snape.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuidditchUK
Page 265, Position 3: British Telecom, Prozac and Hobnobs were all named by the same man.: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/marketing-the-name-game-1246883.html
Page 265, Position 4: The chocolate on a Hobnob is on the bottom of the biscuit, not the top.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/mcvities-reveal-whether-chocolate-top-10203469
Page 266, Position 1: Oorie is a Scots word meaning ‘miserable in cold weather’.: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/oorie
Page 266, Position 2: Oligophagous means ‘eating only a few types of food’.: The Superior Person's Book Of Words. Peter Bowler: Bloomsbury, 2002.
Page 266, Position 3: Omnicompetent means ‘able to deal with anything’.: OED
Page 266, Position 4: Onomatomania is the frustration at not being able to think of the right word.: OED
Page 267, Position 1: Since 1945, all tanks in the British army have been equipped with tea-making facilities.: EI Digest 18.10.16 (quoting history.info)
Page 267, Position 2: ‘Marmite’ comes from an old French word meaning ‘hypocritical’.: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marmite
Page 267, Position 3: Only 1% of people who buy marmalade are under the age of 28.: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/24/marmalade-in-decline-as-paddington-struggles-to-lift-sales
Page 267, Position 4: The tea genome is four times longer than the coffee genome.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9d07d914-2ea6-11e7-aef5-2d8dbd8d80b5
Page 268, Position 1: Iceland has a bar called Pablo Discobar.: https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g189970-d11674412-Reviews-Pablo_Discobar-Reykjavik_Capital_Region.html
Page 268, Position 2: Hominids have used fire for 500,000 years, but only learned to make it 12,000 years ago.: https://qz.com/942986/before-you-make-an-emotional-decision-ask-yourself-these-four-questions/
Page 268, Position 3: Drug lord Pablo Escobar once burned $2 million in cash in one night to keep his family warm.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/colombia/6493894/Pablo-Escobar-burnt-1m-in-cash-to-keep-warm-on-the-run.html
Page 268, Position 4: Pablo Escobar offered to pay the whole of Colombia’s national debt.: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2043575_2043788_2043569,00.html
Page 269, Position 1: Ancient Roman baths were often warmed with solar power.: http://www.motherearthnews.com/renewable-energy/solar-energy-in-ancient-rome-zbcz1401
Page 269, Position 2: Arda Turan, the Turkish midfielder who plays for Barcelona, pays the electricity bills for everyone living in his old block of flats in Istanbul.: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2014/sep/15/arda-turan-atletico-madrid-real-madrid-derby-la-liga
Page 269, Position 3: The energy used in the world at any one time is enough to run 10 billion 100-watt lightbulbs.: https://www.britishgas.co.uk/the-source/our-world-of-energy/surprising-world-of-energy/energy-facts
Page 269, Position 4: Ta’¯ u island in American Samoa runs on 100% solar energy.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/tau-american-samoa-solar-power-microgrid-tesla-solarcity/
Page 270, Position 1: A ka door was a fake door built in Egyptian tombs as a link between the living and the dead.: http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/falsedoors.htm
Page 270, Position 2: Until the 5th century, the must-have Roman gadget was a portable sundial.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/early-tech-adopters-ancient-rome-had-portable-sundials-180962225/
Page 270, Position 3: The Romans raised birds for food in special aviaries and fed them figs that were pre-chewed by the staff.: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop_dia_Britannica/Aviary
Page 270, Position 4: Ancient Romans painted extra doors opposite real doors to make rooms look bigger.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_door
Page 271, Position 1: Trees can recognise their offspring.: https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_each_other/transcript?language=en
Page 271, Position 2: The Nuba people of Sudan have keyhole-shaped doorways to make room for the wide loads carried on their heads.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=agLPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA31&dq=nuba+doorways+keyhole+shape&source=bl&ots=lnBxGyKRci&sig=xPFsLA75831ub3kp_9C1YEUuWtQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY7vWO5e7RAhWqCcAKHT2DAyIQ6AEILzAH#v=onepage&q=nuba%20doorways%20keyhole%20shape&f=false
Page 271, Position 3: The ‘doorway effect’ is when you walk into a room and completely forget what you came in for.: http://mentalfloss.com/article/79056/why-do-we-forget-what-were-doing-minute-we-enter-room?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Partner&utm_campaign=atlasobscura
Page 271, Position 4: Climbing a tree can help you to remember things.: http://www.kurzweilai.net/memory-problems-go-climb-a-tree
Page 272, Position 1: Finland has three million saunas for a population of 5.5 million people.: http://www.thedailystar.net/star-weekend/finland-_-country-curiosity-1298170
Page 272, Position 2: You can attract an emu by waving a handkerchief at it.: Outback Australia
Page 272, Position 3: An emuu was the original mother of each animal and plant species in ancient Finland.: http://odroerirjournal.com/finnish-tradition/5/
Page 272, Position 4: In Finnish folklore, the first person to use a sauna will become its ‘sauna elf’ when they die.: http://fairychamber.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/finnish-mythology-cats.html
Page 273, Position 1: It takes 52 litres of water to make a cup of tea with milk and two sugars.: http://www.improbable.com/2017/02/27/how-much-water-does-it-take-to-make-a-250ml-cup-of-tea/
Page 273, Position 2: To one decimal place, the population of Greenland per square mile is officially 0.0.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/maps-and-graphics/The-worlds-least-densely-populated-countries/
Page 273, Position 3: Canada has underground water that is two billion years old.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-worlds-oldest-pool-of-water
Page 273, Position 4: Pure water is veryslightly sour.: http://www.medicaldaily.com/does-water-have-taste-yes-new-study-suggests-its-not-what-you-think-418583
Page 274, Position 1: The world’s first illustrated cookbook included a recipe for pizza topped with sugar and rose water.: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/03/03/sensory-delights/
Page 274, Position 2: The first ‘chaser’ was alcohol taken to remove the aftertaste of coffee.: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=chaser&allowed_in_frame=0
Page 274, Position 3: The coffee berryborer is the only animal that lives exclusively on coffee beans.: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/07/14/this-beetle-is-ruining-your-coffee-with-the-help-of-bacteria/
Page 274, Position 4: Mary Berry has never ordered a pizza.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/14/bolognese-gate-mary-berry-shocks-fans-admitting-never-ordered/
Page 275, Position 1: The first gentlemen’s club in America was formed for the purpose of eating turtle soup.: http://primerstory.com/primer0013
Page 275, Position 2: Rose-tinted spectacles for chickens were used by US farmers in the early 1900s.: https://io9.gizmodo.com/thousands-of-chickens-once-wore-glasses-to-stop-them-ki-1700343874?null
Page 275, Position 3: According to a study in Ethiopia, you can avoid catching malaria by carrying a chicken at all times.: http://metro.co.uk/2016/07/21/this-simple-step-will-stop-you-getting-bitten-by-mosquitos-6019630/
Page 275, Position 4: In the late 1980s, officials in India released 25,000 turtles into the Ganges to eat dead bodies.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/indias-government-once-released-25000-flesh-eating-turtles-ganges-river-180953384/
Page 276, Position 1: In the 18th century, a St Kilda islander would eat up to 18 seabirds a day.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/29/census-sheds-new-light-st-kildan-diet-18-seabirds-day/
Page 276, Position 2: A hamster that eats nothing but corn will turn into a crazed cannibal.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/french-cornfields-are-full-of-cannibal-hamsters
Page 276, Position 3: The favourite food of Adélie penguins is jellyfish genitals.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/27/penguins-feed-jellyfish-prominent-sex-organs-underwater-footage/
Page 276, Position 4: Egyptian vultures get their vibrant yellow beaks from eating yellow cow dung.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/dung-beetles-feces-poop-recycling/
Page 277, Position 1: Using a leaf blower for half an hour creates more emissions than driving a pickup truck 3,800 miles.: https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/leafblower-legislation-local-press/424533/
Page 277, Position 2: The Orkney Islands are as close to Norway as they are to Aberdeen.: http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-History-of-Orkney-Shetland/
Page 277, Position 3: The world’s shortest scheduled flight, between two islands in the Orkneys, takes as little as 53 seconds.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scotland/scottish-politics/9007300/Scottish-referendum-50-fascinating-facts-you-should-know-about-Scotland.html
Page 277, Position 4: The world’s shortest international flight, over Lake Constance between Austria and Switzerland, takes eight minutes.: http://www.thelocal.ch/20161102/worlds-shortest-international-flight-of-8-minutes-takes-off
Page 278, Position 1: Sean Connery was once caught speeding by a policeman called Sergeant James Bond.: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/08/25/james-bond-sean-connery_n_8036238.html
Page 278, Position 2: In 2016, for the first time ever, more electricity was produced in the UK by wind than by coal.: https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-wind-generated-more-electricity-coal-2016
Page 278, Position 3: In 1888, hailstones as big as oranges fell in India.: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/orange-sized-hail-reported-in-india
Page 278, Position 4: Orange cars hold their value better than cars of any other colour.: http://www.motortrend.com/news/bright-future-orange-cars-hold-value-better-colors/
Page 279, Position 1: Macrophiles are men who fantasise about sex with giant women.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/men-who-fantasise-sex-giant-9146301
Page 279, Position 2: Fidel Castro helped edit the novels of Gabriel García Márquez.: http://qz.com/847274/fidel-castro-influenced-latin-americas-most-famous-authors-including-gabriel-garcia-marquez-mario-vargas-llosa-and-carlos-fuentes/?utm_source=Quartz+Morning+Brief&utm_campaign=aad8ae3d5e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ff2527dbb-aad8ae3d5e-57548377
Page 279, Position 3: In Jamaica, Clarks shoes are a must-have gangsta fashion accessory.: http://clarksoriginals.com/editorial/clarks-in-jamaica/
Page 279, Position 4: In 17th-century London, women wore high-heeled clogs.: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/05/arch-enemies/478350/
Page 280, Position 1: Australia’s first Olympian ran the marathon, then became delirious and punched a spectator.: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/delirious-aussie-edwin-flack-punched-a-spectator-during-running-of-the-first-modern-marathon/news-story/50d05523c7cbf72dc831ba45be32f52a
Page 280, Position 2: The Statue of Liberty has a 35-foot waistline.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/north-america/united-states/new-york/articles/Statue-of-Liberty-50-fascinating-facts/
Page 280, Position 3: If a Formula One driver puts on 11 lb in weight, it can add 0.2 seconds to their lap time.: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/the-times-sport/f1-drivers-starving-to-get-beanpole-position/news-story/9e47e19282095cfde1986eda19d4bf59
Page 280, Position 4: Ron Hill, the first Briton to win the Boston Marathon, ran every day for 19,032 days from December 1964 to January 2017.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/31/ex-olympian-ron-hill-finally-takes-day-going-run-every-day-52/
Page 281, Position 1: The first animal to be ejected from a supersonic jet with a parachute was a bear.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KLnqorLgDM
Page 281, Position 2: After the first official women’s boxing match in the UK, the press stormed the ring and it collapsed under their weight.: A Classless Society _ Alwyn Turner
Page 281, Position 3: At the launch of the first ballpoint pen in the US, the crowds had to be restrained by riot police.: Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case by James Ward
Page 281, Position 4: The first edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack was 112 pages long and padded out with accounts of the trial of King Charles I.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/thats-turn-up-books-strange-8952119
Page 282, Position 1: Men are six times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/does-lightning-strike-men-or-w/51439
Page 282, Position 2: In 18th-century France, fashionable women styled their hair à la rhinocéros.: https://timeline.com/clara-rhinoceros-europe-history-dc8a944c2a21#.cvmivl6z1
Page 282, Position 3: Tiaras were originally worn by men.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiara
Page 282, Position 4: 1,000 years ago, shirts and skirts were the same thing.: http://www.word-detective.com/2009/11/skirt/
Page 283, Position 1: In 2016, a 155-year-old mousetrap, kept as an exhibit in a Berkshire museum, caught a mouse.: http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/155-year-old-mouse-trap-10844771
Page 283, Position 2: The odds that Tasmanian tigers still exist have been calculated as 1.6 trillion to one.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128077-odds-that-tasmanian-tigers-are-still-alive-are-1-in-1-6-trillion/
Page 283, Position 3: Some villages in the Central African Republic allow lions to live near by so locals can steal their kill.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/humans-steal-food-from-lions-14896586/
Page 283, Position 4: A 19th-century way to prevent toothache was to tie a dead mole around your neck.: http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Folk-Remedies/
Page 284, Position 1: Jet-lagged hamsters should be given Viagra.: http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070521/full/news070521-1.html
Page 284, Position 2: There are 1,111 museums in Switzerland.: https://www.thelocal.ch/20170421/stuffed-frogs-and-sewing-machines-switzerlands-strangest-museums
Page 284, Position 3: James Franco’s Museum of Non-Visible Art contains no physical work, just ideas. A ‘piece’ called Fresh Air sold for $10,000.: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/19/interview-with-aimee-davi_n_892618.html#s305184
Page 284, Position 4: Germany has a Museum of Snoring.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/museum-snoring
Page 285, Position 1: People who buy ‘bags for life’ are safer drivers.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7962aaea-05a5-11e7-976a-0b4b9a1a67a3
Page 285, Position 2: Tampon is French for ‘rubber stamp’.: http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-french/tampon
Page 285, Position 3: The Symptoms, Nature, Cause, and Cure of a Gonorrhoea was published in 1818 by William Cockburn.: https://archive.org/details/symptomsnatureca00cock
Page 285, Position 4: Condoms are used by car mechanics to mend punctures.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/27/crabs-take-cubas-bay-pigs/
Page 286, Position 1: The 23A bus from Salisbury Plain to Imber runs only once a year.: https://imberbus.wordpress.com/
Page 286, Position 2: More than 200 drivers in Britain are at least 100 years old.: https://www.ft.com/content/d79cde1a-7436-11e6-bf48-b372cdb1043a?desktop=true
Page 286, Position 3: During the First World War, 1,000 double-decker London buses, complete with drivers and mechanics, were sent to the front line.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/world-war-1-battle-buses-3923565
Page 286, Position 4: Bus horns in Indonesia play tunes, are sampled by DJs and are available as apps.: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/23/506713677/honk-if-you-love-memes-the-om-telolet-om-phenomenon-explained
Page 287, Position 1: Dairy cows in Norway must have a mattress to lie down on.: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112954171
Page 287, Position 2: Only one blind person has climbed Everest.: http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/11/health/turning-points-erik-weihenmayer/
Page 287, Position 3: Cold elephants are kept warm by villagers in India knitting jumpers for them.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/india-elephant-jumpers-villagers-knit-protect-near-freezing-temperatures-weather-mathura-a7535101.html
Page 287, Position 4: The traditional Indian way of sobering up a drunk elephant was to feed it three pounds of melted butter.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KV83AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA320&lpg=PA320&dq=india+festival+brandy+elephants&source=bl&ots=BDw8AS1b76&sig=mlScskIh88AKwgCu9wS6t3BnYx0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwih7uO38ZfLAhUGOhQKHUsgA18Q6AEIKzAC#v=onepage&q=india%20festival%20brandy%20elephants&f=false
Page 288, Position 1: There is a bookshop in Shanghai that sells books by the kilo.: http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/849006.shtml
Page 288, Position 2: The Boston Public Library has a ‘car wash’ for books.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/book-car-wash-library-boston
Page 288, Position 3: 181 books published in 2016 had the F-word in their title, compared with just 52 in 2015.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/10b29d1e-e987-11e6-a93a-4fa396e7e4ed
Page 288, Position 4: There is a German airline that allows an extra free kilo of hand luggage, provided it’s books.: https://electricliterature.com/german-airline-allows-passengers-to-fly-with-extra-books-96acfda022e0#.2wwdgkuvq
Page 289, Position 1: By 2030, there will be no glaciers in Glacier Mountain Park, Montana.: http://all-that-is-interesting.com/melting-glaciers
Page 289, Position 2: Armageddon is a real place in Israel.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Megiddo
Page 289, Position 3: There’s a town in India called Poo.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poo,_Himachal_Pradesh
Page 289, Position 4: Nothing, Arizona, has a population of none.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing,_Arizona
Page 290, Position 1: Each sheet of parchment used to record British Acts of Parliament costs £35.: https://qz.com/index/982080/the-british-parliament-could-save-80000-if-it-stopped-writing-laws-on-parchment/
Page 290, Position 2: Macedonia has more mountain peaks than any country in the world.: https://www.zoo.com/quiz/97-people-cant-identify-individual-countries-just-a-map-outline-can-you?mkcpgn=i600006636&utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=UK-Zoo-CountryOutline-Screenshots%28desktop%29&utm_term=5055356&utm_content=Can+You+Score+in+the+Top+3%25%3F+-+Country+Outline&sg_uid=fHsKF_qNRAqYi-AY6R7anA
Page 290, Position 3: Brazil’s highest mountain was unknown until the 1950s because it is permanently shrouded in cloud.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/south-america/brazil/articles/Brazil-30-fascinating-facts/
Page 290, Position 4: Asperitas is a cloud formation that resembles an unmade bedsheet.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7f7a8e56-1005-11e7-9efc-104ca844d0d4
Page 291, Position 1: The main danger dolphins face underwater is drowning.: http://www.whalefacts.org/how-do-dolphins-breathe/
Page 291, Position 2: Britain’s tallest waterfall is twice as high as Niagara but entirely underground.: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/incredible-yorkshire-cave-waterfall-twice-5768426
Page 291, Position 3: There is a point in the Pacific Ocean where, if you drilled directly down through the planet, you would arrive back in the Pacific Ocean.: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/3j8shn/the_pacific_ocean_contains_its_own_antipode/
Page 291, Position 4: A whole chapter of Moby Dick is dedicated to the fact that whales don’t have noses.: But What If Weêre Wrong _ Daniel Kahneman
Page 292, Position 1: Oregano is a name used for a dozen different plants.: Alan Davidson, Oxford Companion to Food
Page 292, Position 2: Three-quarters of Americans are in debt when they die.: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-are-dying-with-an-average-of-62k-of-debt/
Page 292, Position 3: Only a quarter of British adults eat their five a day.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/30/just-one-four-adults-eating-five-day-nhs-reveals/
Page 292, Position 4: Golden Delicious apples have almost three times as many genes as people.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple#Genome
Page 293, Position 1: There are four times as many species of orchid as there are species of mammal.: http://www.kew.org/plants-fungi/for-gardeners/orchids/
Page 293, Position 2: The fastest-growing plant is bamboo, which grows at three centimetres an hour.: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-growing-plant/
Page 293, Position 3: The slowest-growing plant is a moss that grows less than 1 millimetre a year.: https://www.labmate-online.com/news/news-and-views/5/breaking-news/how-does-moss-thrive-in-freezing-temperatures/30145
Page 293, Position 4: Plants can tell when one of their leaves is being eaten, and react to try to stop it.: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a11550/plants-can-hear-themselves-being-eaten-and-they-dont-like-it-17337795/
Page 294, Position 1: Scientists can predict when an elderly person is going to fall over three weeks before it happens.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/17/scientists-find-way-predictolder-peoples-falls-three-weeks-happen/
Page 294, Position 2: Camels gave humans the common cold.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/cold-camels-study-where-does-it-come-from-scientists-discover-mers-outbreak-a7198771.html
Page 294, Position 3: Zebras can be scanned like barcodes.: https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/04/barcode-scanner-for-zebras.html
Page 294, Position 4: Science knows more about coffee, wine and tomatoes than it does about breast milk.: https://www.ted.com/talks/katie_hinde_what_we_don_t_know_about_mother_s_milk
Page 295, Position 1: Obsidional means boring people by staying too long.: OED
Page 295, Position 2: Obdormition is when your arm falls asleep from lying on it.: OED
Page 295, Position 3: Oniomania is the compulsive urge to buy things, including (but not necessarily) onions.: OED
Page 295, Position 4: Obscurum per obscurious is an explanation more complicated than the thing it’s trying to explain.: OED
Page 296, Position 1: Andrew Jackson, the face on the US $20 bill, was opposed to paper currency .: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/03/06/why-is-andrew-jackson-on-the-20-bill-the-answer-may-be-lost-to-history/
Page 296, Position 2: Salvador Dalí’s moustache was set at ten past ten, like the hands of a clock.: http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/exhumation-salvador-dali-s-remains-finds-his-mustache-still-intact-n785211?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
Page 296, Position 3: 9 out of 10 hedge funds are a waste of time and money .: http://nypost.com/2016/12/07/investing-in-90-percent-of-hedge-funds-isnt-worth-it-critics/
Page 296, Position 4: At New Year in Brazil, people eat lentils because they symbolise money .: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/38341760
Page 297, Position 1: £1.5 million in cash has been eaten by British pets since 2003.: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-30/the-bank-of-england-knows-how-many-people-are-its-cash
Page 297, Position 2: Warren Buffett has been paying income tax since he was 14.: https://qz.com/1015834/warren-buffetts-1944-tax-return-from-when-he-was-14-shows-he-was-already-making-bank/
Page 297, Position 3: In 2016, a worker at the Royal Canadian Mint was caught smuggling gold coins out in his bottom.: http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/egan-170k-in-mint-gold-allegedly-smuggled-in-body-cavity-judge-hears
Page 297, Position 4: Airlines make more money selling air miles than seats.: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-31/airlines-make-more-money-selling-miles-than-seats
Page 298, Position 1: If you stood on top of a mountain on the Moon and fired a gun at the horizon, you could shoot yourself in the back.: https://www.livescience.com/18588-shoot-gun-space.html
Page 298, Position 2: The world’s largest pet rabbit is 4 feet 4 inches long, weighs 3½ stone and eats 4,000 carrots a year.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/10777869/Worlds-largest-rabbit-gets-through-4000-carrots-a-year.html
Page 298, Position 3: The world’s largest volcano is 1,000 miles from Japan under the sea.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130905-tamu-massif-shatsky-rise-largest-volcano-oceanography-science/
Page 298, Position 4: A volcano in Guatemala has erupted once an hour for the last 94 years.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/01/santa-maria-volcano-guatemala-erupts-every-hour-science/
Page 299, Position 1: Britain exports deer testicles to China.: Food Britannia. Andrew Webb. London: Random House, 2011.
Page 299, Position 2: More people in America own more than 10 guns than there are people in the whole of Denmark.: https://www.thetrace.org/2015/12/gun-violence-stats-2015/
Page 299, Position 3: In the US, offal is known as ‘variety meats’.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offal
Page 299, Position 4: Serbia is home to the World Testicle Cooking Championships.: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/29/serbia-world-testicle-cooking-championship
Page 300, Position 1: The breadcrumb sponge has been ‘discovered’ so many times it has 56 different names.: Atlas of Oceans
Page 300, Position 2: Sigmund Freud spent a month in 1876 searching for eels’ testicles, but never found any .: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_life_history
Page 300, Position 3: Eels that swim 3,000 miles across the Atlantic lose weight from their bones.: http://www.livescience.com/56535-eels-consume-their-bones-to-survive-migration.html
Page 300, Position 4: The gulper eel has a mouth which is bigger than the rest of its body.: Atlas of Oceans
Page 301, Position 1: The world’s oldest fish, Grandad, died in 2017 in his mid-nineties.: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/07/grandad-the-lungfish-the-oldest-fish-in-captivity-euthanised-by-chicago-aquarium
Page 301, Position 2: A fifth of all known species of coral were named by the same man.: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/godfather-of-coral-warns-of-great-barrier-reef-mass-extinction-20160306-gnbsj5.html
Page 301, Position 3: The number of marine species is unknown; estimates range from one million to 10 million.: estimates range from one million to 10 million.
Page 301, Position 4: Every spring, thousands of firefly squid light up Toyama Bay, Japan, glimmering like stars in the water.: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/science/firefly-squid-toyama-japan.html
Page 302, Position 1: Botox was developed to treat double vision.: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-creator-of-botox-never-cared-about-wrinkles/?WT.mc_id=SA_HLTH_20161108
Page 302, Position 2: People who read books live longer than people who don’t.: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/people-who-read-books-live-longer-lives-study-says-a7171911.html
Page 302, Position 3: In the 17th century, blood from the recently deceased was used to treat epilepsy .: http://laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/brief-history-medical-cannibalism
Page 302, Position 4: Aspirin confused people at first. One headache sufferer strapped a tablet to his head.: http://www.independent.co.uk/ life-style/health-and- families/health-news/focus- aspirin-the-secret-history-of- a-wonder-drug-489558.html
Page 303, Position 1: There is a Chinese brand of spectacles called Helen Keller.: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/20/chinese-company-names-sunglasses-after-helen-keller/
Page 303, Position 2: Aardvarks’ eyes don’t reflect light in the dark.: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/study-busts-myth-aardvarks-don-t-drink
Page 303, Position 3: Charlotte Brontë could see in the dark well enough to read.: http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/20-things-you-probably-didn-t-know-about-charlotte-bront%C3%AB/
Page 303, Position 4: John Dollond of Dollond & Aitchison invented glasses for horses.: Aitchison invented glasses for horses.
Page 304, Position 1: John Williams has never seen any of the Star Wars movies he composed the music for.: http://io9.gizmodo.com/john-williams-hasnt-seen-a-single-star-wars-movie-1790469339
Page 304, Position 2: There are four cases of blind people regaining their sight after tripping over the leads of their guide dogs.: Fortean Times 342
Page 304, Position 3: The popularity of dog breeds is less influenced by breed, appearance or temperament than by their appearance in films.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140910152512.htm
Page 304, Position 4: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis went to the cinema together to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but didn’t enjoy it.: http://observer.com/2017/04/jrr-tolkien-cs-lewis-hated-disney-snow-white-dwarfs/
Page 305, Position 1: Manatees adjust their buoyancy through controlled flatulence.: http://www.floridaocean.org/uploads/docs/blocks/169/manatee4.pdf
Page 305, Position 2: Chuck Berry had a degree in hairdressing.: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/arts/chuck-berry-dead.html?_r=0
Page 305, Position 3: Roman women donated their hair for use as military catapult elastic.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=X0H_CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA190&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
Page 305, Position 4: Trap-jaw ants can close their jaws with such force they catapult themselves through the air.: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/trap-jaw-ants
Page 306, Position 1: Sex toys in Japan were known as ‘laughter devices’.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e6a8df2c-2c4f-11e7-9d2e-96f2194e0ac4
Page 306, Position 2: Walruses use birds as toys.: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/12/walruses-playing-dead-birds-oceans/
Page 306, Position 3: 40% of toys in Russia are bought by grandparents.: Small Data: The Tiny Clues that Uncover Huge Trends by Martin Lindstrom
Page 306, Position 4: 1 in 5 children’s building sets and action figures in the UK are bought by adults for their own use.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/15c16862-1d67-11e7-ab8a-bed946da5aa3
Page 307, Position 1: It takes 65 milliseconds for a message to cross the Atlantic.: The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling by Adam Kucharski
Page 307, Position 2: North Korea’s entire Internet has only 28 websites.: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/21/north-korea-only-28-websites-leak-official-data
Page 307, Position 3: 70% of online ads are never seen by humans.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9edc1bbe-efcd-11e6-8d68-d0e249a86942
Page 307, Position 4: ‘Wi-Fi’ isn’t short for anything.: http://boingboing.net/2005/11/08/wifi-isnt-short-for.html
Page 308, Position 1: A lychnobite is someone who sleeps all day and works all night.: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lychnobite
Page 308, Position 2: Tidsoptimist is a Danish word for someone who thinks they have more time than they actually do.: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/submission/4237/tidsoptimist
Page 308, Position 3: Shturmovschina is Russian for working frantically to meet a deadline, having not done anything for the last month.: http://blog.inkyfool.com/2011/07/shturmovshchina.html
Page 308, Position 4: ‘To egrote’ is to pretend to be ill to avoid work.: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/09/15-forgotten-english-words-you-should-know
Page 309, Position 1: The use of CAPITAL LETTERS TO DENOTE SHOUTING dates back to the 19th century.: http://boingboing.net/2016/05/16/using-allcaps-to-denote-shouti.html
Page 309, Position 2: ‘Hit the farter’ is Australian slang for ‘go to bed’.: https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/753127618359259137?lang=en
Page 309, Position 3: ‘Bumpsy’ is 17th-century slang for ‘drunk’.: A Dictionary of Old Trades, Titles and Occupations. Colin Waters, 2002.
Page 309, Position 4: ‘Hot beef’ was Victorian rhyming slang for ‘Stop thief’.: http://strangeco.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/weekend-link-dump_13.html
Page 310, Position 1: Olive Oyl appeared 10 years before Popeye.: http://popeye.wikia.com/wiki/Olive_Oyl
Page 310, Position 2: If you shout at the Taj Mahal, it takes 28 seconds for the echoes to fade away.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_and_architecture_of_the_Taj_Mahal#Symmetry_and_hierarchy
Page 310, Position 3: Inscriptions discovered under Peterborough Cathedral suggest it may be 1,000 years older than previously thought.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cambridgeshire-39065079/peterborough-cathedral-tunnels-reveal-site-s-true-age
Page 310, Position 4: Covering buildings with olive oil protects them against acid rain.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-20553406
Page 311, Position 1: In Montenegro, Only Fools and Horses is called Mucke.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/11/unlikely-place-everyone-knows-fools-horses-jokes-derek-trotters/
Page 311, Position 2: People eating popcorn remember adverts less.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24518203
Page 311, Position 3: Americans spend more than a year of their life flipping channels.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/it-can-take-year-your-life-find-something-watch-tv-180961026/
Page 311, Position 4: There are more CCTV cameras in Hackney than in the whole of Wales.: https://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Are-They-Still-Watching.pdf
Page 312, Position 1: Liu Bang, founder of the Chinese Han dynasty , hated Confucians so much that whenever he saw one he would urinate into his hat.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kOm-AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5&dq=sima+qian+liu+bang+confucian&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=sima%20qian%20liu%20bang%20confucian&f=false
Page 312, Position 2: The average BBC viewer is over 60 years old.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/f38dd5aa-14bf-11e7-b29d-ceffe88c8938
Page 312, Position 3: At 104 years old, Jack Reynolds became the oldest person to get a tattoo, and, at 105, the oldest to ride a roller coaster.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/06/105-year-old-becomes-worlds-oldest-person-ride-rollercoaster/
Page 312, Position 4: Riding a roller coaster can help patients to expel their kidney stones.: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/09/for-kidney-health-roller-coaster-therapy/501278/
Page 313, Position 1: The world record for the most bird species seen by one person in a year is 6,841.: https://longreads.com/2017/02/28/bird-man/?utm_source=New+Daily+Newsletter+Subscribers&utm_campaign=59f23acdb0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4675a5c15f-59f23acdb0-81818165
Page 313, Position 2: Ostriches are the only birds with a bladder.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dtrNu3E_ydUC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=ostrich+bladder+weighs+them+down&source=bl&ots=HCRGgCvyi0&sig=chv4-aTOTP4k5AwsybhajR56UAw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjW-KjfosnRAhWMJsAKHZQmDHQQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false
Page 313, Position 3: Electronic devices are scrambling the navigational cues used by migrating birds.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27313355
Page 313, Position 4: Tens of millions of birds have been ringed by ornithologists, but only 2.2% of them have ever been seen again.: 'Do birds have knees?' by Stephen Moss
Page 314, Position 1: Startled deer run due north or due south so they don’t crash into each other.: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-don-t-deer-crash-into-one-another-when-startled/
Page 314, Position 2: Giant flying turkeys as big as kangaroos once roamed Australia.: http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/evolution/fossil-finds-reveal-australia-was-once-home-to-enormous-flying-turkeys/news-story/00c7b8966fe51fc4774af9fc18167d16
Page 314, Position 3: A ‘willy-willy’ is a tiny tornado found in the Australian outback.: http://knowbefore.weatherbug.com/2013/10/04/hurricanes-typhoons-cyclones-whats-difference/
Page 314, Position 4: Australian compass termites build their mounds on a north–south axis.: Planet Earth 2
Page 315, Position 1: Didcot, Oxfordshire, is officially the most normal town in Britain.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-39428314
Page 315, Position 2: The highest point in Mauritania cannot be found with a compass due to magnetic rocks.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kediet_ej_Jill
Page 315, Position 3: The US Embassy in Kathmandu has guidelines on what to do if a yeti is found.: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/26/search_for_yeti_the_foreign_service_memo_advising_yeti_hunters.html
Page 315, Position 4: One contender for the geographical centre of America is a place called Center.: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/science/north-america-geographical-center-north-dakota.html?_r=4&partner=IFTTT
Page 316, Position 1: Kansas is only the seventh-flattest state in the US.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-battle-over-how-flat-kansas-is?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160920&bt_email=john_hardress_lloyd@hotmail.com&bt_ts=1474379064491
Page 316, Position 2: Four times as many ferrets live in the south-east of England as in Yorkshire.: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/apr/07/ferrets-britain-survey-south
Page 316, Position 3: 1 in 8 young Britons have never seen a cow in real life.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/31/one-eight-young-people-have-never-seen-cow-real-life/
Page 316, Position 4: England is smaller than New York state.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York
Page 317, Position 1: The bottom of the sea is surprisingly noisy .: http://theterramarproject.org/thedailycatch/contrary-to-popular-belief-the-deepest-point-in-the-ocean-is-quite-noisy/
Page 317, Position 2: 50% of US territory is under the sea.: http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/nature/fun-surprising-facts-about-the-oceans
Page 317, Position 3: 85% of Vakkaru Island in the Maldives is made up of fish faeces.: http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/29192289/an-island-made-entirely-of-fish-excrement
Page 317, Position 4: Three-quarters of all ocean creatures glow in the dark.: http://www.livescience.com/58653-75-percent-of-ocean-animals-glow.html
Page 318, Position 1: Lou Reed once played a gig just for dogs.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EnoJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT110&lpg=PT110&dq=Lou+Reed+once+played+a+gig+just+for+dogs.&source=bl&ots=X452-lIzG9&sig=yTm0zGo7eqqQIwlXCd0J_RTrQ1s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjo37jPp8zUAhWLa1AKHcPWAEcQ6AEIOzAC#v=onepage&q=Lou%20Reed%20once%20played%20a%20gig%20just%20for%20dogs.&f=false
Page 318, Position 2: Samba music makes currytaste 10% spicier.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/12/music-makes-curries-taste-10pc-spicier-scientists-find/
Page 318, Position 3: The best-selling British music act in America in the 1990s was The Beatles.: A Classless Society _ Alwyn Turner
Page 318, Position 4: Lithuania has a memorial to Frank Zappa, even though he never went to Lithuania.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/frank-zappa-memorial
Page 319, Position 1: Avocado toast is poisonous to lemurs.: https://today.duke.edu/2016/12/avocados-blamed-sudden-deaths-four-aye-ayes
Page 319, Position 2: Fidel Castro’s favourite cow had its own food taster.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/military-guards-milking-musichas-any-cow-lived-as-well-as-cubas-ubre-blanca
Page 319, Position 3: Cuba bans statues of living Cubans.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4779529.stm
Page 319, Position 4: An effigy of the Pope stuffed with live cats was burned at the coronation of Elizabeth I.: http://the-toast.net/2014/05/12/devil-disguise-cat-west/
Page 320, Position 1: Horseshoe crab blood costs up to $28,000 a pint.: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a26038/the-blood-of-the-crab/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 320, Position 2: To catch a rabbit, a stoat will hypnotise it with thrashing dance moves.: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/worlds-deadliest-ngs/deadliest-stoat
Page 320, Position 3: Female dragonflies fake death to avoid sex with males.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2129185-female-dragonflies-fake-sudden-death-to-avoid-male-advances/
Page 320, Position 4: Seahorses greet their partners with a dance every day.: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/seahorses-monogamy-ocean-rider
Page 321, Position 1: In 2016, a llama-dressing-up contest in Minnesota was won by an alpaca.: http://www.twincities.com/2016/09/02/alpaca-wins-4-h-lama-costume-contest-though-its-not-a-llama/
Page 321, Position 2: 420,000 people die in the world each year as a result of falling.: https://mosaicscience.com/story/falling-science-injury-death-falls?utm_source=twitter&amp
Page 321, Position 3: Rottweilers are used in Norway for mountain rescue.: http://www.therottweilerclub.co.uk/the-breed/history-of-the-breed/
Page 321, Position 4: Louisiana only banned cockfighting in 2008.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2eb805f6-2857-11e7-9d2e-96f2194e0ac4
Page 322, Position 1: The cuckoo in the world’s largest cuckoo clock weighs 23½ stone.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/worlds-largest-cuckoo-clock?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b29b3c8fcf-Newsletter_1_9_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-b29b3c8fcf-63261525&ct=t(Newsletter_1_9_2016)&mc_cid=b29b3c8fcf&mc_eid=1968599da9
Page 322, Position 2: When dinosaurs roamed the Earth, days were only 23 hours long.: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/11/28/3642932.htm
Page 322, Position 3: Until three million years ago, whales were less than 30 feet long.: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/24/whales-large-food-distribution-ocean
Page 322, Position 4: The largest-ever photo was 111 feet wide and taken with a pinhole camera three storeys high.: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/05/giant-pinhole-camera-is-three-stories-high/
Page 323, Position 1: Racing ferrets sometimes fall asleep halfway along the course.: https://www.all-about-ferrets.com/ferret-races.html
Page 323, Position 2: In 2017, there were three times as many robins in Britain as there were in 1987.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d3ed5752-14b5-11e7-b29d-ceffe88c8938
Page 323, Position 3: An Arctic tern weighs about the same as a bar of soap.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c09bde46-21f1-11e7-84e8-86f619ed3761
Page 323, Position 4: The world’s smallest fox is only 10 times larger than the world’s largest ant.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoponera
Page 324, Position 1: Self-driving cars play Grand Theft Auto to learn how to drive better.: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-17/don-t-worry-driverless-cars-are-learning-from-grand-theft-auto
Page 324, Position 2: More than 200 US colleges offer courses in paranormal phenomena.: An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural _ James Randi
Page 324, Position 3: 90% of students have hallucinated that their phone is buzzing in their pocket.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35271420
Page 324, Position 4: Nokia didn’t make phones from 2011 to 2016.: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia
Page 325, Position 1: Anemones have slapping contests.: British Wildlife, Aug 16
Page 325, Position 2: Robots cannot be taught to lace a pair of trainers.: https://qz.com/966882/robots-cant-lace-shoes-so-sneaker-production-cant-be-fully-automated-just-yet/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Page 325, Position 3: The record for the most Wimbledon titles is held by Professor Bernard Neal: he was croquet champion 38 times.: http://www.worldcroquet.org.uk/index.php/latest-news/158-bernard-neal-dies-at-93
Page 325, Position 4: You can improve your darts game by training yourself to dream about playing darts.: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2017/01/30/6040/#.WJUbQbaLSu4
Page 326, Position 1: There is no evidence that dogs have a better sense of smell than humans.: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-humans-smell-myth-20170511-story.html
Page 326, Position 2: To tiny ocean creatures, water is as thick as jelly.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16822664-500-meet-me-at-the-goo/
Page 326, Position 3: The California black sea hare is a giant slug as big as a cat.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_sea_hare
Page 326, Position 4: The longest pet cat in the world weighs 31 lb and eats raw kangaroo meat.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/17/cat-weighs-14kg-eats-raw-kangaroo-meat-could-longest-world/
Page 327, Position 1: People put on a horse that is too difficult for them to ride are said to have been ‘over-horsed’.: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/features/signs-you-have-overhorsed-yourself-613420
Page 327, Position 2: 770 lb of dog hairs are swept up after Crufts each year.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-crufts/
Page 327, Position 3: American cocker spaniels are all descended from a single English dog named Obo II.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obo_II
Page 327, Position 4: William III of England, Alexander III of Scotland, Leopold V of Austria and Louis IV of France all died after falling off a horse.: http://listverse.com/2017/02/24/10-ways-sport-has-changed-history/
Page 328, Position 1: In South America, an ocelot is a manigordo, or ‘fat hands’, because its forepaws are much bigger than its hind ones.: http://www.livescience.com/55072-ocelot-facts.html
Page 328, Position 2: Bargibant’s pygmy seahorses are the size of a 50p coin.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus_bargibanti
Page 328, Position 3: A zeptosecond (a trillionth of a billionth of a second) is the smallest unit of time ever recorded.: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2112537-smallest-sliver-of-time-yet-measured-sees-electrons-fleeing-atom/
Page 328, Position 4: Because it cannot be seen, the Aymara people of the Andes think of the future as behind them.: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiSlMqr7LPVAhVKKVAKHd5ZBXMQFgg1MAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fscience%2F2005%2Ffeb%2F24%2F4&usg=AFQjCNGvCY_RXYBQBjZIO06Ib7mPAT7pxw
Page 329, Position 1: Between 1977 and 1998, 23 people in the US caught the plague from pet cats.: http://www.abnews24.com/english/2017/03/28/8888/11-ways-your-pet-may-make-you-sick
Page 329, Position 2: The Asian flat-headed cat has webbed feet and washes its prey in water.: http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2014/07/flat-headed-cat
Page 329, Position 3: Cat videos on YouTube are not as popular as dog videos.: http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2014/07/flat-headed-cat
Page 329, Position 4: The first pet cat lived in Egypt 10,000 years ago.: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwj5rNvl7LPVAhVKZlAKHSGdBWgQFggzMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedaily.com%2Freleases%2F2017%2F06%2F170619125825.htm&usg=AFQjCNE-u0oy0sbUvadKV4wgS7kSFUJ11g
Page 330, Position 1: Giant pandas born in the US prefer American food and understand English better than Chinese.: http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/usborn-pandas-struggle-in-china-as-they-only-know-english/article9357426.ece?utm_source=Quartz+Morning+Brief&utm_campaign=17dc44aedc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1ff2527dbb-17dc44aedc-57548377
Page 330, Position 2: Rats who have sex at least once a day for 14 days grow more neurons in their brain.: http://time.com/3689474/8-ways-sex-affects-your-brain/?xid=time_socialflow_twitter
Page 330, Position 3: In the mating season, mouse lemur testes swell to become bigger than their brains.: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141113142002.htm
Page 330, Position 4: Snails use just two brain cells to decide if they’re hungry .: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-36443264
Page 331, Position 1: The best people at making lists of random numbers are 25-year-olds.: https://phys.org/news/2017-04-golden-age-ability-random-choices.html
Page 331, Position 2: China buys bottled fresh air from Britain.: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/man-sells-british-fresh-air-to-wealthy-chinese-elite-for-80-a-jar-a6857461.html
Page 331, Position 3: There are 600,000 psychopaths in Britain.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vzQiAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=There+are+600,000+psychopaths+in+Britain.&source=bl&ots=4dTrQz8WwQ&sig=GtkE-VUpAUVVEKZbtQuKWbNrLYM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjstt-P7bPVAhWMY1AKHfcoBegQ6AEIMzAB#v=onepage&q=There%20are%20600%2C000%20psychopaths%20in%20Britain.&f=false
Page 331, Position 4: The BBC’s weekly global audience is 372 million people.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2017/global-audience-measure
Page 332, Position 2: F¯al-gu¯ sh, or eavesdropping on random strangers, is a method of divination practised in Iran.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C4%81l-g%C5%ABsh
Page 332, Position 3: Ololygmancy is predicting the future by interpreting the howling of dogs.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M5hlO8sgpCgC&pg=PA190&l#v=onepage&q&f=false
Page 332, Position 4: Psithurism is the sound of rustling leaves.: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psithurism
Page 333, Position 1: 53 million years ago, Antarctica was covered in palm trees.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-climate-change-meant-antarctica-was-once-covered-with-palm-trees-12098835/
Page 333, Position 2: Only one female film director has ever won the Palme d’Or.: http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/did-you-know-the-first-ever-cannes-film-festival-never-took-place-at-all/article18525099.ece?utm_source=true&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Newsletter
Page 333, Position 3: Rapper Tupac Shakur was a former ballet dancer.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yCeVAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT77&dq=tupac+ballet+nutcracker&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqtcOendnUAhVLAcAKHaNTCnAQ6AEIUDAJ#v=onepage&q=tupac%20ballet%20nutcracker&f=false
Page 333, Position 4: Cary Grant started his career as an acrobat.: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/12/cary-grant-how-100-acid-trips-in-tinseltown-changed-my-life-lsd-documentary?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=225821&subid=22528671&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Page 334, Position 1: There are only 16 circus animals left in the UK.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/2eb805f6-2857-11e7-9d2e-96f2194e0ac4
Page 334, Position 2: The Parliament of Bats was held in Leicester in 1426.: http://semper-eadem.tripod.com/Articles/06.htm
Page 334, Position 3: Redditch once made 90% of the world’s needles.: http://www.redditchhistory.org.uk/needles.html
Page 334, Position 4: The only wooden stocks in Oxfordshire are in Woodstock.: http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/686236/Stocks-could-be-brought-back-to-Oxfordshire-after-councillors-discovers-they-are-legal
Page 335, Position 1: 26% of Britons own their homes, compared with 75% of Poles.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a631cd00-fac7-11e6-a6f0-cb4e831c1cc0
Page 335, Position 2: For the first time in over a century, 18- to 34-year-old Britons are less likely to live with a spouse than with their parents.: s: https://www.buzzfeed.com/matthewzeitlin/12-things-millennials-arent-buying?utm_term=.dgdVk1MKZ#.euXO3M9BL
Page 335, Position 3: The parents of most geniuses aren’t geniuses.: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/05/genius-genetics-intelligence-neuroscience-creativity-einstein/
Page 335, Position 4: Orang-utan mothers breastfeed for eight years.: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/5/17/15653130/baby-orangutans-nursing-teeth-barium-analysis
Page 336, Position 1: The world’s eight richest men are worth more than half the population of the world combined.: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/e902eb84-db58-11e6-a7b1-3a60b507a068
Page 336, Position 2: Most people who were dollar billionaires in 1995 aren’t billionaires today.: http://time.com/money/4152051/billionaires-rich-lose-build-wealth/
Page 336, Position 3: Only 11 of the 1,810 billionaires in the world are black.: ttps://www.quora.com/In-2016-how-many-black-people-are-billionaires-in-the-world-and-who-are-they
Page 336, Position 4: The most expensive jeans in the world cost $10,000.: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-expensive-jeans
Page 337, Position 1: Neanderthals wore capes.: http://www.livescience.com/55624-parkas-helped-early-humans-survive.html
Page 337, Position 2: Renaissance women removed their body hair with arsenic.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/get-rid-body-hair-renaissance-women-made-lotions-arsenic-cat-dung-and-vinegar-180949977/
Page 337, Position 3: Ancient Egypt had nine-pin bowling.: https://www.britannica.com/sports/bowling#toc29796
Page 337, Position 4: Martin Luther had his own bowling lane.: https://www.britannica.com/sports/bowling#toc29796
Page 338, Position 1: An Adamite is someone who walks around naked for religious reasons.: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/adamite
Page 338, Position 2: Shivviness is an old Yorkshire word for the uncomfortable feeling you get from wearing new underwear.: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-anthony-jones/66-facts-you-may-not-have_b_5508623.html
Page 338, Position 3: Kalsarikannit is the Finnish for drinking at home alone in your underpants.: http://www.vogue.com/article/finnish-trend-kalsarikannit-vogue-archive
Page 338, Position 4: A deipnosophist is someone who is good at small talk.: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-dS6DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq#v=onepage&q&f=false
Page 339, Position 1: When introduced to a stranger, Argentinians stand closest and Romanians furthest away.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/9fdd1c8c-2e9f-11e7-aef5-2d8dbd8d80b5
Page 339, Position 2: Members of the Nigerian parliament earn 10,000 times the national minimum wage.: https://qz.com/983331/a-dogged-transparency-campaign-reveals-why-it-pays-to-be-a-lawmaker-in-nigeria/
Page 339, Position 3: The 9th US president, William Henry Harrison, claimed he was born in a log cabin but was actually born in a mansion.: http://www.ithaca.edu/rhp/programs/cmd/blogs/posters_and_election_propaganda/the_log_cabin_campaign:_image_deception_in_1840/#.WGgVN306u4J
Page 339, Position 4: Orson Welles wrote speeches for Franklin D. Roosevelt.: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fdr-had-famous-ghostwriter-orson-welles-180962658/
Page 340, Position 1: Americans spend $11 billion a year on the pursuit of happiness.: https://www.outsideonline.com/2174691/my-weekend-conference-super-happy?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Page 340, Position 2: People who have children are less happy but live longer.: https://qz.com/932388/a-new-study-that-shows-people-with-children-live-longer-and-the-relationship-between-parents-and-longevity-increases-with-age/
Page 340, Position 3: Cheerful women are less likely to be promoted.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10101889/Key-to-promotion-for-women-dont-smile.html
Page 340, Position 4: The man who popularised the high five has only four fingers.: http://www.espn.co.uk/espn/story/_/page/Mag15historyofthehighfive/who-invented-high-five
Page 341, Position 1: Only six people are qualified to raise or lower Tower Bridge.: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2010/sep/04/tower-bridge-operator
Page 341, Position 2: On his retirement, the senior crayon-maker at Crayola finally admitted he was colour-blind.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1990/12/06/crayon-maker-shows-his-true-colors/e76e2c27-c3d7-49d8-b5ca-72309f6911ee/?utm_term=.424079412df2
Page 341, Position 3: All RSPCA inspectors must be able to swim 50 metres fully clothed in 2.5 minutes.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-37822027
Page 341, Position 4: Billy Muir from Orkney has 20 jobs, including lighthouse keeper, firefighter, rubbish collector, electrician, tour guide and builder.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-37822027
Page 342, Position 1: Autocracies build more skyscrapers than democracies.: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7a1cfa9a-3367-11e7-b61d-fc80f211cbc9
Page 342, Position 2: There are more than 20,000 abandoned villages in Russia.: http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/russias-desert/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 342, Position 3: Citibank employs more than 23,000 compliance officers.: https://www.marketplace.org/2016/04/13/world/its-surprisingly-hard-figure-out-what-big-banks-spend-follow-rules
Page 342, Position 4: There are more than 45,000 species of spider.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/03/15/spiders-outdo-humans-whales-chop-800-million-tons-prey-year/
Page 343, Position 1: There are 20,000 edible-cricket farms in Thailand.: http://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/For-growing-numbers-eating-insects-is-Bugsolutely-fine
Page 343, Position 2: Gillette stopped sponsoring cricket after market research showed that their brand was more associated with sport than with razors.: The Cricket Paper, 23 Sept 16
Page 343, Position 3: Celebrities got more mentions in British newspapers than politicians for the first time in 1901.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4105410/How-pop-stars-overtook-politicians-AI-finds-cultural-shifts-hidden-British-newspapers-1800-1950.html
Page 343, Position 4: Trains first got more newspaper mentions than horses in 1902, and football beat cricket in 1920.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4105410/How-pop-stars-overtook-politicians-AI-finds-cultural-shifts-hidden-British-newspapers-1800-1950.html
Page 344, Position 1: 149–0 is the world’s highest football score. The losers lost on purpose and all the goals were own goals.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS_Adema_149_0_SO_l%27Emyrne#
Page 344, Position 2: While at AC Milan, defender Paolo Maldini averaged only one tackle every other game.: http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/steve-harper-testimonial-ac-milan-5907233
Page 344, Position 3: Bossaball is a kind of volleyball played on trampolines to music.: http://www.bossaballsports.com/bossaball/what-is-bossaball/
Page 344, Position 4: Rectangular trampolines are safer than round ones.: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4315548/Trampolines-caused-300-ambulance-visits-2016.html
Page 345, Position 1: Socks in international pro cycling must be no higher than midway between ankle and knee, and it’s someone’s job to check.: http://road.cc/content/news/55389-uci-technical-regulations-update-socks-helmets-and-hydration-packs-all-come-under
Page 345, Position 2: At the 1968 Olympics, Bob Beamon broke the world long jump record by so much they had to find another tape measure.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEt_Xgg8dzc&feature=youtu.be
Page 345, Position 3: There is no standard height for ‘sea level’.: New Scientist 11 Feb 17
Page 345, Position 4: Less than 1% of Camemberts are made to official Camembert standards.: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/camembert-world-running-out-under-threat-french-soft-cheese-a7791366.html
Page 346, Position 1: ‘Onion Johnnies’ were Frenchmen on bicycles with berets and stripy tops and strings of onions round their necks.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9703957/Onion-Johnnies-return-to-England-as-French-market-dries-up.html
Page 346, Position 2: Bermuda celebrates New Year by dropping a massive illuminated papier mâché onion from the town hall.: http://bernews.com/2015/12/bermuda-onion-up-ready-to-drop-in-2016/
Page 346, Position 3: 175 countries produce an onion crop.: Alan Davidson, Oxford Companion to Food
Page 346, Position 4: The ancient Greek poet Archestratus described goose liver pâté as ‘the soul of the goose’.: Offal. Nina Edwards. Reaktion, 2013
Page 347, Position 1: Bar-headed geese can hyperventilate without getting dizzy .: http://barheadedgoose.bangor.ac.uk/about.php.en
Page 347, Position 2: Blind people can learn to see with their tongues.: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/15/seeing-with-your-tongue?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
Page 347, Position 3: Frogs’ tongues are 10 times softer than human tongues.: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/01/scientist-cracks-mystery-of-the-amazing-power-of-the-frogs-tongue-its-called-spit/
Page 347, Position 4: Frogs survived the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/03/535383841/how-frogs-benefited-from-the-dinosaurs-extinction?mc_cid=80582f0b80&mc_eid=d3a1822159
Page 348, Position 1: The world’s largest dinosaur footprint is longer than Mark Zuckerberg is tall.: http://all-that-is-interesting.com/dinosaur-footprint-australia
Page 348, Position 2: Prince’s flip-flops had three-inch heels.: http://www.astrotheme.com/heights/5'9
Page 348, Position 3: The pressure per square inch the Eiffel Tower puts on the ground is about the same as that of a woman in high heels.: http://www.toureiffel.paris/images/PDF/supports-pedagogiques/EN/en_10_la_tour_en_chiffres.pdf
Page 348, Position 4: 60% of the world’s shoes are made in China.: http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21646204-asias-dominance-manufacturing-will-endure-will-make-development-harder-others-made
Page 349, Position 1: Piñatas were invented in China.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%C3%B1ata
Page 349, Position 2: More people work in the tea industry in China than live in the UK.: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/jun/02/all-the-tea-in-china-in-pictures
Page 349, Position 3: The heat in curries comes from chillies brought to India by the Portuguese in the 15th century.: http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1628191_1626317_1632291,00.html
Page 349, Position 4: The Aztecs dabbed chilli sauce on their arrowheads.: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-daily-telegraph-saturday/20170408/281487866205505
Page 350, Position 1: The heaviest chilli ever grown was planted by a man called Edward Curry .: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/heaviest-pepper
Page 350, Position 2: Washing machines in India have a special mode for dealing with currystains.: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39176358
Page 350, Position 3: Croatia has a 210-foot-long sea organ which is ‘played’ by the tide.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/12/music-makes-curries-taste-10pc-spicier-scientists-find/
Page 350, Position 4: Spring tides occur all year round; the name has nothing to do with the seasons.: the name has nothing to do with the seasons.
Page 351, Position 1: Ancient Japan had 72 seasons, lasting around five days each.: http://boingboing.net/2016/12/23/why-just-four-seasons-ancient.html
Page 351, Position 2: In Japan, you can take exams in how to throw house parties.: https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-parties-could-be-big-in-japan-if-people-knew-how-to-throw-them-1465766626
Page 351, Position 3: ‘Cocktail party syndrome’ is a rare genetic disorder that makes people extremely friendly.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_syndrome
Page 351, Position 4: Friendship has more influence on longevity than exercise, diet, heart problems and smoking.: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/well/live/having-friends-is-good-for-you.html
Page 352, Position 1: Nobody knows why we say ‘hmm’.: https://www.livescience.com/20861-origin-hmm-thinking.html
Page 352, Position 2: Nobody knows how many people live in Nigeria.: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2017/06/economist-explains-6
Page 352, Position 3: Nobody knows how many organs we have.: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/01/06/got-mesentery-news-wrong/#.WI-GBLaLSu5
Page 352, Position 4: All the organs of Enrique Iglesias are on the opposite side of his body to normal.: https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/sep/08/situs-inversus-and-my-through-the-looking-glass-body
Page 353, Position 1: Andy Murray has three kneecaps.: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2008/mar/13/tennis.andymurray
Page 353, Position 2: Billy Ocean has three lungs.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ocean
Page 353, Position 3: There is actually only one ocean in the world.: http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/howmanyoceans.html
Page 353, Position 4: There are two Air Force Ones.: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/02/the-presidents-secret-air-force-215091?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
Page 354, Position 1: The average person makes 35,000 decisions a day.: https://qz.com/942986/before-you-make-an-emotional-decision-ask-yourself-these-four-questions/
Page 354, Position 2: 300,000 objects a year are lost on the London Underground.: http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/business-news/london-transport/londoners-lost-300000-items-on-the-tube-last-year/11791.article
Page 354, Position 3: The first man to use an umbrella in London was pelted with rubbish.: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-public-shaming-of-englands-first-umbrella-user
Page 354, Position 4: The London borough of Southwark is rented from the Queen for £11 a year.: http://www.guildablemanor.org/history.html
Page 355, Position 1: It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour.: http://www.lawcom.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Legal_Oddities.pdf
Page 355, Position 2: Sir Edmund Hillary and Lady Thatcher became Knights of the Garter on the same day.: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/asia/nepal/articles/Everest-Sixty-fascinating-facts/
Page 355, Position 3: Lord Salisbury ran the British Empire with 52 civil servants.: http://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/topstories/man-who-brought-you-brexit/ar-BBwNpZE?ocid=MSN_UK_NL_M_NO_06OCT16
Page 355, Position 4: For the first time in history, more species are being lost every year than found.: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-new-species-top-10-20170522-htmlstory.html
Page 356, Position 1: Children under three years old cannot imagine the future.: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224826581_Recalling_yesterday_and_predicting_tomorrow
Page 356, Position 2: Adults think about the future three times as often as the past.: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/opinion/sunday/why-the-future-is-always-on-your-mind.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email&_r=0
Page 356, Position 3: Stephen Hawking predicts the human race has only 1,000 years left on Earth.: https://www.aol.com/article/news/2016/12/02/stephen-hawking-says-only-cooperation-can-save-the-planet/21618878/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_1329850&ncid=txtlnkusaolp00001361
Page 356, Position 4: Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London, died in 1423.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Whittington