Everyday at 5.25ish, Chris tells you something interesting....each one follows on from yesterday's through a very dodgy link!
Here's where he is up to:
Real life twins were reunited after both saw their Dad as an extra in the mobie TWINS! * Arnie is famous for his muscles, but the world's biggest arms were over 30 inches all the way round. They belonged to body builder Greg Valentino * Greg Wallace, the bald jusge from MasterChef, is rumoured to have met his wife on Twitter * NASA named one of their Mars explorer 'Gromit', after the dog from Wallace and Gromit * The man behind the song 'Life on Mars', David Bowie, got his dilated pupil after a fight with a mate in the school playground. The fight was over a girl! * In the right conditions, the human eye can detect the light of a candle up to 14 miles away * Candles were once made from beeswax, which was also considered to be a cosmetic. Women would leave it on their face, but could then not come into contact with the cooking fire as it would melt, hence the phrase 'mind your beeswax!' * Honey has been discovered to be very good at burning fat whilst you sleep (eat it, don't smear it on yourself * The brain's sleep clock can be re-set by shining bright lights at the backs of your knees?! * Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump - they are too heavy and their knees can't take it * There are over 4,000 species of spider that can jump up to 40 times their body length * Andre Agassi was 40 this year - but when he was just 6, his Dad built a full tennis training camp in their back yard. No pressure there then * Tennis was originally played wearing a glove, and hitting the ball with your hand * the man with the world's largest hand, had a thumb measuring 26cm! * Amy Winehouse is 26. She was once an extra on the TV show The Fast Show * Jude Law was moments away from being one of the megastars on Rickey Gervais' 'Extras' * Madonna was also nearly a star on Extras. She suffers from Brontophobia, a fear of thunderstorms * There is a 5000 to 1 chance you will hit by lightening at some point in your life * 15 to 1 was a Channel 4 quiz show. In the famous episode when William G Stewart dropped the answer cards, one of the contestants was Mrs Wilcox...who went on to the first winner of £1m on Who Wants to be a Millionnaire? * 80% of millionnaires drive 2nd hand cars * A car airbag inflates at 198 mph * the first boob job was in 1895 and involved injecting paraffin?! * the highest ever parachute jump was 102,800 ft above sea level - literally the edge of space * At their peak, Wham bars were bought at a rate of 30 million a year in the UK * The best selling chocolote bar in the world is the Snickers, with global annual sales of $2b * Snickers were once called Marathons - the average woman uses the energy equivalent of 16 jam donuts to run a marathon * Marathon got its name after a soldier ran the 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to deliver a message - he then dropped dead * Text messaging peak hours in the UK are 10.30pm - 11.30pm * the oldest person to ever climb the world's highest peak, Mt Everest, was 64 * the oldest person ever, was 122 when she died in 1997. She was so old that she actually met Vincent van Gogh! * Vincent van gogh only ever sold one painting * Former Blue Peter presenter Tim Vincent, once broke the Guiness World Record for the most pancakes thrown at another person. That other person was Eastenders actor Joe Swash * An Australian man holds the record for typing 'One' to 'one million' in words, not numbers. He started in 1982 and finished in 1998. When asked why he had done it, he replied "I didn't have anything else to do". Oh dear * Kangaroos can not walk backwards * A baby kangaroo is called a Joey. Matt le Blanc (Joey in Friends) won his first acting award for his part in a ketchup commercial * Ketchup was first made using anchovies, mushrooms and kidney beans * Native Americans used to flavour their beans with maple syrup and bear fat * In a survey, 25% of Americans said they would abandon their friends and family for $10m * the last private resident of #10 Downing Street was a man called Mr Chicken * it is beleived that a chicken is the closest living relative to a T-Rex * Dinosaurs are extinct, as is the Do-Do Bird. Portugese settlers gave the bird it's name, from the word 'dou dou' meaning 'fool' - because they never learnt to run away * Homer Simpon's well know for his phrase 'Doh!'. His email address is chunkylover53@aol.com * there are 60 billion emails sent worldwide everyday. 54 billion of them are SPAM * Tinned SPAM was sent to us by the USA after WW2 to help with the food shortage - Specially Processed American Meat * A war time recipe for 'potato dessert' was used on a radio programme called 'The Kitchen Front'. Instead of using butter though, it suggested liquid paraffin, which turned out to be a laxative. Awkward * the world's biggest potato was grown in Germany in 1997 and weighed 3.2kg/7lbs - about the same as a small dog * Will Smith was the star of the film '7 Pounds'. He was also the Fresh Prince of Bel Air....and he really was born and raised in West Philidelphia * Cream cheese was created in the 1890s in New York by a man trying to follow a recipe for a hard blue cheese from France. The sloppy mess he created turned out to be quite nice * New York got its name in the 1920s when it hosted some of the biggest horse race meetings in the world. The main prize got the nickname 'The Apple' and because the races were the biggest around, the city then got the name 'The Big Apple' * That well known phrase about 'an appla a day' was developed from the more popular 1800s phrase "an apple upon bed, will keep the doctor from earning his bread" * Mike Myers, who plays Dr Evil in Austin Powers, owns the very last letter written by Beatle George Harrison. In it, it George allegedly asks to be sent a mini-me dol *
