Trivia

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The largest denomination gaming 'plaque' or chip is valued at $10 million (£7 million) and is used at The London Club at Aladdin, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Greenland, the largest island in the world, is 49 times larger than its mother country Denmark.

Nobel prize-winner Samuel Beckett wrote the shortest play in world drama, the 30-second Breath in 1969. Becket also wrote the famous Waiting For Godot.

Sixty per cent of a badger's diet consists of earthworms.

The Canadian Sean Shannon recited the 260-word soliloquy 'To be or not to be' from Hamlet in a record 23.8 seconds on 30 August 1995. That's an astonishing 655 words per minute!

Lightning strikes the Empire State Building in New York up to 48 times a year.

The human body burns 74 watts of energy just to keep warm while resting.

Calcium is a metal.

Human blood consists of 83% water.

96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jam sandwich.