Saturday Breakfast Show 'Strange But True' facts, part 1 of 2 for February 8th 2014.

Part 1 of 2
For 
8th February 2014

1. A single tree will give off approx 70 gallons of water everyday, just in evaporation.
2. Harrison Ford used to be a carpenter... before George Lucas offered him Star Wars.
3. A moth can smell another moth 7 miles away.
4. There are 45miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
5. Women spend 47mins a day getting ready for the day ahead.
6. Bill Gates first business was Traf-O-Data... (it was making machines that measured technical stuff with traffic)
7. One study has found that sex can actually reduce migraine pain.
8. Every human being spent about half an hour being a single cell.
9. Snails can sleep for three years.
10. Bread was used to rub out pencil before erasers were invented.

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Saturday Breakfast Show on Inspiration FM 107.8 , Strange But True, February 1st 2014 Part 2 of 2

1. Swedish pop band Abba had nine UK number one hit singles from May 4th 1974 to 29th November 1980.
2. In the UK, The Sun Newspaper was first published as a broadsheet on 15 September 1964, this replaced The Daily Herald.
3. Iron is a chemical element with the symbol Fe (from Latin: ferrum) and atomic number 26.
4. Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance film directed by John Badham and starring John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young man whose weekends are spent visiting a local Brooklyn discotheque. and the film was a huge commercial success. The film helped popularise disco music around the world.
5. Grand Prix formula one motor racing began in 1906.  Grands Prix (from French, originally meaning great prizes)
6. IN September 1066 The Norman conquest of England was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army of Norman, Breton, and French soldiers led by Duke William II of Normandy, later William the Conqueror.
7. The history of Ice cream goes back to 400BC in the Persian Empire, people would pour grape-juice concentrate over snow, in a bowl.
8. The teddy bear is a soft toy in the form of a bear. Developed apparently simultaneously by toy makers Morris Michtom in the US and Richard Steiff in Germany in the early years of the 20th century, and named after President Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt, Jr., the teddy bear became an iconic children's toy, celebrated in story, song and film.
9. In 1974 Rubik's Cube Creator, Erno Rubik, was a lecturer at the Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest, Hungary. Rubik was a visual teacher and used models to illustrate his ideas. One idea he was attempting to teach was that the simplest things could be duplicated and manipulated into multiple forms.
10. Song lyrics found on clay tablets that date back to approximately 1400 BC, is the oldest surviving notated work of music.
11. Crown retains the right to ownership of all unmarked mute swans in open water, but The Queen only exercises her ownership on certain stretches of the Thames and its surrounding tributaries. 
12. Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer, who became a major sex symbol, starring in a number of commercially successful motion pictures during the 1950s and early 1960s. 

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Saturday Breakfast Show on Inspiration FM 107.8 , Strange But True, February 1st 2014 Part 1 of 2

1. The world’s longest highway is the Trans-Canada Highway
2. The accordion was patented in 1854.
3. Porridge is known as oatmeal in America.
4. More people are snacking at 3 o’clock in the afternoon than any other time.
5. Nail polish was first worn 5000 years ago.
6. Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
7. About 80% of all animals have six legs.
8. The accordion was patented in 1854.
9. Almost a quarter of mammal species are bats.
10. Paris was the first city to adopt house numbers.
11. Caterpillar means hairy cat in olden French.
12. All snow crystals are hexagonal.
13. 15% of people have a second toe that's longer than their big toe.
14. The first plastic ever invented was celluloid.
15. The are no fleas in the Arctic.

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Robert Burns Day January 25th : Strange But True, Saturday Breakfast Show with Jerry Wright.

Robert Burns, 

also known as Robbie, or Rabbie Burns Born January 25th 1759

was a Poet, lyricist, farmer, exciseman

• Robert Burns, born 25th January 1759, and died 21 July 1796
•      Rober Burns Occupation was known as a Poet, lyricist, farmer, exciseman ( a government agent whose function was to collect excise and prevent smuggling)
• Also known as Robbie Burns, or Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway Firth, the Bard of Ayrshire and in Scotland as The Bard
• Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language.
•  He is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement.
• Robert Burns became a cult during the 19th and 20th centuries, and his influence has long been strong on Scottish literature. 
• Poems and songs of Burns that remain well known across the world today include "A Red, Red Rose"; "A Man's a Man for A' That"; "To a Louse"; "To a Mouse"; "The Battle of Sherramuir"; "Tam o' Shanter"; and "Ae Fond Kiss".
• Burns Night is celebrated with a Burns supper every year in Scotland (and in places all over the world) on 25th January (Burns’s birthday).
• Robert Burns was going to move from Scotland to Jamaica. He decided against this when sales of poetry collection Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (also known as the Kilmarnock volume) took off. He moved to Edinburgh instead, and a second edition of his poetry book was published.
• Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne (he added new lyrics to a traditional Scottish tune) 
• Burns was alive during the French Revolution and he was in favour of reform.
• On 21st July 1796, Robert Burns died at the age of 37. His body lies to rest in the Burns Mausoleum in St Michael’s Churchyard, Dumfries.

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