film contracts used to stipulate that he had to be supplied with a bed pointing East-West. So that he could clearly see Leytonstone from where he was lying …
Such is the popularity of footballer David Beckham that when he revealed a hairless chest during a summer sunbathing session while on holiday in St Tropez, sales of home waxing kits soared.
Eskimos complained of a heatwave when the temperature in the Arctic soared to 19 degrees Centigrade … Suppose their igloos melted all over their pyjamas …
A magician had to pay a locksmith £130 to free him after he got trapped in handcuffs when a trick on stage went wrong. Muppetry.
After bad reviews for his early films, Harrison “Indiana Jones” Ford gave up acting to become a carpenter.
But please, no jokes about his acting being wooden – Harrison is a fine actor … and a very good friend.
The most impossible item to flush down a toilet is a ping-pong ball, but obviously the researchers have never tried an elephant.
Maria Sharapova, the 2004 Wimbledon tennis champion, turned up at the following year’s event with 10 pairs of £500 trainers, flecked with 24-carat gold.
Between shows, Elvis used to snack on chicken soup with crackers. As the crowd called “More!” he ate more.
It’s reported that when Elvis was introduced to Eric Clapton, he said to Slow Hand “And what do you do?”
Elvis impersonators are officially known as “Elvii” – just Ask Elvis. And don’t they say that by the year 2080, every other citizen will be an Elvis impersonator?
Elvis bought hundreds of silk scarves to throw to fans at his shows, mainly from Tie Rack on Victoria Station.
The most successful music act of all time is Elvis Presley, having spent nearly 2,500 weeks in the UK charts alone.
RCA, the record label Elvis was on, always had to use the pressing plants of other record labels right from his first song with them to keep up with demand.
Elvis used to always call his daughter Lisa-Marie “Buttonhead” or “Yisa”.
Graceland is the second most visited home in America, after the White House. He bought Graceland for $102,500 in March 1957. Well, do you know how much it’s worth now … ?
You could only enter Elvis’s bathroom with his permission. It boasted a padded toilet, a poster of Sarah Kennedy and a giant Blue Peter badge. That’s not widely known – keep it to yourself.
Nobody apart from the British royal family has appeared on the stamps of more countries than Elvis.
Elvis wore high turned up collars because he believed his neck was too long, and he never wore underpants. In fact, his collars were named after two giraffes at Memphis Zoo, and he could never find underpants in his size, and he found them restrictive.
Elvis has left the building.
Less than seven per cent of the population donates blood.
Four per cent of women have hurled what at a man?
a) abuse
b) drink
c) footwear
[If it was a) or b) I’m sure the figure would be higher, but it’s actually c) footwear. Clearly our better halves not only like to shop for them they like to throw them as well.]
In Japan, 20% of all publications sold are comic books.
The odds of being killed by falling out of bed are one in two million.
After a concert on the Isle of Man, the Rolling Stones climbed through a toilet window to avoid screaming fans.
Chart anorak factoid, courtesy of Paul Gambaccini – In 1976, Rodrigo’s ‘Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez’ was No 1 in the UK for only three hours because of a computer error.
200 babies are born worldwide every minute.
One out of every 70 people who pick their nose eat what they find! That is sick! Get help.
43 per cent of men speak to their mums on the telephone at least once a week.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.
90 per cent of women who walk into a department store immediately turn to the right.
Walking fast uses eight times as many calories as writing. Especially when you’re carrying a tortoise.
A study has revealed that people are more likely to catch colds when their mothers-in-law come to stay – too much stress brings down their immune system.
The tranquiliser Valium is the most widely used drug on earth.
In the native Indian language Manhattan means “the place of drunkenness”.
One count of the word “and” in the Bible showed that it appears 46,227 times.
14 per cent of cat owners think their cat is more important than their job.
The lion has the smallest heart of all beasts of prey.
The shark is immune to all known diseases.
The frog’s tongue grows from the front of its mouth, which makes it easier to catch flies.
People in Southern England eat six million more cloves of garlic a year than the northern French.
Red-haired men are more likely to go bald than anyone else.
A foetus acquires fingerprints at the age of:
a)
