10 October 2017
World Octopus Day is October 8th.
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Supermarket sales of upmarket popcorn have doubled in the last five years causing related dental problems, which have doubled in the last three years.
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Jamie Oliver has a customised Land Rover that roasts meat over the engine and makes butter and ice cream in the wheel drums and toast in the centre console.
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When Wilhelm Roentgen showed his wife the first X-ray photograph, taken of her hand, she gasped “I have seen my death!’ and never set foot in his lab again.
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In 2014, 1,000 demonstrators in Thailand attempting to form a giant peace symbol with lighted candles accidentally made the Mercedes-Benz logo instead.
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99.99% of the territory of the Cook Islands is open sea.