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A statue of Queen Victoria stands on the traffic island outside the front gates of Buckingham Palace.
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Apart from humans and chimpanzees, the only other animal to have fingerprints is the koala.
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Tony Grieg captained England in the centenary cricket Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in 1977.
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The word bwyd means food in Welsh.
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In golf a birdie means a score of one stroke under par on a hole.
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The main character in the J. D. Salinger book Catcher in the Rye is Holden Caukfield.
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Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders.
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In 1923, Polish born American Leo Gerstenzang invented cotton swabs. He got the idea when he saw his wife wrap a small piece of cotton on the end of a toothpick.
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The popular snack food of peanuts can be used as an ingredient in dynamite.
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Actor Paul Newman won one Oscar for his performance in The Colour of Money
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