Tuesdays Ten "Interesting" Facts 6

1. TV Physicist Brian Cox, played keyboards for D:Ream (of "Things will only get better fame.) and appeared on Top of The Pops.
2. Tsutomu Yamaguchi who was unfortunate enough to be present at both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings as a young man, was fortunate enough to survive both and live till the grand age of 93.
3. The Great wall of china is not visible from space. It would require a resolution 7.7 times that of than the average human.
4. Iron (in particular Fe58) has the highest (net) binding energy. That means that you can't get (again net) energy out of iron through either nuclear fusion or fission.
5. The Fontainebleau Resort is Las Vegas' tallest building. (The stratosphere doesn't count as a building for some obscure reason.)
6. On average a performance of Macbeth starts every 4 hours.
7. Annakin Skywalker(aka Darth Vadar) has been "played" by 5 people. In the original films David Prowse was the body, James Earl Jones the voice, and Sebastian Shaw was the face when Darth Vader was eventually unmasked. In the prequels Jake Lloyd played young annakin, while Hayden Christensen played a grown up annakin before finally donning the Vadar suite for his final scene.
8. In "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" as Harry enters Dumbledore's study, a portrait of Gandalf the Grey is included in the collection of paintings. (It is above the doorframe.)
9. For Lord of the Rings Sean Astin gained 30 pounds for his role as Samwise the "Stupid fat Hobbit.".
10. Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days following an argument with her soon to be ex husband. Though theories from nervous breakdown to publicity stunt abound the 11 days where never accounted for.