The LTA have threatened to withdraw Andy Murray’s ranking if he doesn’t have his hair cut. Rule 23.b states that “unkempt appearance will not be tolerated”.

Devil’s Junction in Chicago is where 11 roads meet. The traffic lights take a full 12 minutes to complete a cycle.

Steve Grace ate 132 light bulbs in 30 seconds in 1989.

The largest cheque ever written was by the British Government to purchase the Royal Bank of Scotland. The cheque for over £7 billion pounds took 37 days to clear.

Verbal communication amongst humans is believed to have originated as a way for males to request food from females.

The fast paper aeroplane ever was made by MIT students. It was launched from an F-15 Tomcat at Mach 2.

The phrase “The Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” was originally developed by typewriter engineer, Arthur Lomax, as a way to test the striking arms of the machines he was servicing.

250,673 violinists gathered just outside Tokyo to play several Beethoven works in August 2008.

Abraham Lincoln’s quote “A society that doesn’t confer is a society that will never fracture” is the most misquoted quote of all time.

There were originally 9 dwarves in the story of Snow White, but Greedy and Hairy were dropped by Disney.