It’s been a while since I wrote one of these…
- The Australian town of Alice Springs used to be called Stuart (wikipedia.org)
- You can fix slightly unresponsive game console controllers with aluminum foil (lifehacker.com)
- Marlee Matlin (Academy Award winner, Children of a Lesser God) was discovered by Henry Winkler (the Fonz) when she was was 12-year-old (youtube.com)
- Tortoiseshell-and-white cats are nearly almost female (I knew that) because coat colour is linked to the X chromosome (I did not know that), and therefore only female cats (carrying two X chromosomes) can have patches in two different colours e.g. black and orange (wikipedia.org)
- Actor James Franco has a younger actor brother called Dave (wikipedia.org)
- Cyborg stands for “Cybernetic organism” (telegraph.co.uk)
- Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate bars were launched in 1905 (wikipedia.org)
