1. Japan has around 200,000 missing elderly people.
2. This was brought to public light when officials went to congratulate Sogen Kato on his Eleventy first birthday (111th). Only to find his mummified remains.
3. The rather annoying trend to play music on mobile phones in public is called Sodcasting. Its described as "The act of playing music through the speaker on a mobile phone, usually on public transport. Commonly practised by young people wearing polyester, branded sportswear with dubious musical taste."
4. Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese's love of film started thanks to his asthma which meant he couldn't play sports as a child. Instead his parents would take him to the pictures.
5. Academy Award winning Actor Daniel Day-Lewis's first role was as a child vandal. He was paid £2 to vandalise cars, which he enjoyed very much.
6. The term rule of thumb comes from the old English law that men couldn't beat their wives with anything wider than their thumb.
7. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20.
8. In 1386, a pig was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child.
9. Uma Thurman's father was the first American to be ordained a Tibetan Buddhist monk.
10. Creationists believe the earth was created in 4004 BC. This figure is "worked out" using dates in the bible and the ages of the people described in the old testament.
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