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Friday, 4 October 2013

FI'S FRIDAY FACT FINDER

 
Just looking online found these so called facts, not sure if they are true, but if so are interesting?

Gustave Eiffel, designer of the Eiffel Tower, enjoyed a successful career as an architect despite having dyslexia and a paralyzing fear of heights.

 

Princess Diana had her navel pierced - and fitted with a 2.8-carat diamond stud - just a few hours before her fatal accident.

 

Archimedes endured a tragic fate at the hands of drunken Roman soldiers. After forcing him to cut off and eat his own nose, they boiled him in oil.

“Well, at least poor old Archi, would not be able to smell what he was eating!”

The striped mittenfish, a deepwater species recently discovered in the Java Sea, can change its sex at will by turning its entire body inside out.


 

The lion used in the original MGM movie logo killed its trainer and two assistants the day after the logo was filmed.

“Makes me wonder what happened to the poor thing whilst filming?”

 

Sesame seeds were so prized during the Middle Ages that in some parts of the world they were worth their weight in gold.

 

The face of Uncle Sam, the fictional personification of the United States, has seen many changes of his appearance over the years.

 

 

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