Steve Wright - Steve Wright’s Further Factoids

A German man took legal action against the Easter Bunny for grievous bodily harm. The party pooper, from Berlin, filed a complaint with prosecutors, accusing the bunny of causing addiction to chocolate which leads to heart attacks, obesity and strokes.

A Belgian studentsold the foreheads of himself and his friends to pay for his 20th birthday party He put up their foreheads as advertising space as he had no money to buy food or drink for the bash. The online auction was won by a marketing firm in Waregem, which footed the bill for all party-goers to have the firm’s logo painted on their foreheads for the night.

We British still buy the most compact discs in the world–an average of 3.2 per year, compared to 2.8 in the USA and 2.1 in France. Although as downloading becomes more prevalent these figures will no doubt go down. Factoids will keep you posted.

The name Lego, as in the children’s toy, comes from two Danish words “leg godt”, meaning “play well”. It also means “I put together” in Latin.

The average UK employee spends 14 working daysa year on personal e-mails, phone calls and web browsing.

Britain’s smallest church, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, holds just one service a year. It measures 4m by 3.6mand has one pew. Tom Cruise did consider it for a wedding venue. And Ronnie Corbett’s a regular.

Only 36% of the world’s newspapers are tabloid.

The word “trivia”comes from the Latin “tri + via”, meaning three streets. In ancient Rome an information booth was situated where three streets met. And Romans of course invented the light switch, nuclear weapons, hair, throats, books, heating, Italy, carburettors, curling tongs, the London Underground, Geiger Counters, Venus, Specsavers, Troy Tempest from Stingray, feet, Ken Livingstone and hot springs. And baldness, Richard Madeley’s chest hair, BBC4, the steam iron and the pony.

Blockbusters legend Bob Holness used to present a game show called Take A Letter. Bet it was P please, Bob.

Britain came 37thin a list of best countries in which to live, judged on things like climate, culture, economy and freedom. Top country was France. I demand a recount .

Tom and Jerry made their debut as Jasper and Jinks in the 1940 film Puss Gets The Boot.

Half the people surveyed by the Samaritans said they’re more stressed than five years ago, with money overtaking work as the top stress factor.

As well as protecting the heart and reducing the risk of cancer, a glass of red wine also helps slow the ageing process. Give me a couple more then .

The best music video ever was Duran Duran’s “Rio”, beating Michael and Janet Jackson’s hit “Scream”. That’s according to Simon Le Bon, though .

A three-toed sloth spends 80 per cent of its time asleep. Wake up, Sloth! You’ve only got three toes, Friend!

The record for eating 38 hard-boiled eggs is 1 minute 15 seconds.

The Mahabharata is the longest poem in the world, with more than 74,000 verses and needing 18 large volumes to print it.

Scientists have located a sort of bottleneckof nerves in the brain which explains why we find it hard to do two things at once. Well, us blokes do anyway .

Actress Billie Piper’sparents changed her given name from Lianne three weeks after registering her birth, after they decided they liked the name Billie more.

The Queen star Dame Helen Mirren was born Ilyena Vasilievna Mironov. Her father was of Russian origin.

X Factor star and Britain’s Got Talent judge Simon Cowell says that the first time he gave a criticism was at age four when he looked at his mother’s white fuzzy pillbox hat and remarked, “Mum, you look like a poodle.”

Doctor Who star David Tennant has auditioned for Scottish police drama Taggart 16 times–but has never been given a part.

As a toddler, movie actress Penelope Cruzwould re-enact TV commercials for her family’s amusement.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s middle name is Wilhelm.

Comic Relief Does Fame Academy winner Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is a trained concert pianist, and practises for 90 minutes every day. There must be a piano in Harvey Nicks, then.

According to reports, movie star and singer Jennifer Lopez can’t be expected to stoop and tie her shoe lace, so she employs an official “shoe fastener” instead.

Courtney Cox is the only member of the TV show Friends cast not to receive an Emmy nomination for her work on the show.

Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle originally applied to be in Big Brother 6. However, after some encouragement from PR guru Max Clifford, the show’s producers put her in the Celebrity Big Brother house instead.

Women say an average 20,000 words a day compared to men’s 7,000. I don’t want to talk about it.

Ozzy Osbourne, in a job that would come back to haunt him in later life, was once a labourer in a slaughterhouse.

The avocado has the most calories of any fruit.

The actress Jill Halfpenny began her TV acting career on Byker Grove . She was Jill Farthing back then .

If each of the UK’s ten million office workers used one less staple a day, 120 tonnes of steel would be saved every year.

Australia’s victory over England in The Ashes in 2006was the first whitewash since 1921. The Wizards of Oz.

A woman who won £688,260with a £2 accumulator flutter on the horses picked the winners with birth dates.

From EastEnders , the name Walford is a mix of Walthamstow and Stratford.

Council bosses in Swindon, Wiltshire, have responded to huge public demand by publishing a picture postcardof a roundabout near the town. The so-called Magic Roundabout already has t-shirts and keyrings dedicated to it.

The top best-selling book of all time is the Bible, which has been printed in more than 2,000 languages and has sold over six billion copies. Not been mentioned in Richard and Judy’s Book Club yet, though.

The chance of a woman having twins has doubled since World War Two.

According to the World Health Organisation, there are approximately 100 millionacts of sexual intercourse each day. Way too much information!

The children’s television show Tiswas stood for Today is Saturday, Wear a Smile.

“Cabbaged” and “fabaceae” are the longest words that can be played on a musical instrument.

And fickleheaded and fiddledeedee are the longest words consisting only of letters in the first half of the alphabet.

Movie star Kate Winslet and “olde tyme” comedian Norman Wisdom have something in common–they’ve both appeared in the TV show Casualty .

The New Zealand basketball team are known as The Tall Blacks.

The first female to circumnavigate (sounds painful) the globe was Krystyna Choynowska-Liskievicz. That’s easy for you to say.