Just a few of the 'fascinating' facts about the new Wembley Stadium

The Arch

- is high enough to roll the London Eye under it
- weighs the equivalent of 275 double decker buses or 10 Jumbo Jets
- the tips of the Arch are known as 'pencil ends' and weigh 18 million times more than an average pencil
- it is made up from 500 steel tubes known as 'straws' - you can get 850 pints of milk in each one ie. 425,000 pints in all
- the amount of paint needed to coat the Arch would cover the ceiling of the Cistine Chapel 19 times

The stadium

- lay all the seating end to end at it will stretch 54 kilometres or in English 33.55 miles
- the roof weighs 7000 tonnes
- each of the two giant screens is the size of 600 domestic TVs
- it could hold 25,000 double deckers or 7 billion pints of milk
- and of course.....
- There will be 2618 toilets

At the end of the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", an ultrasonic whistle, audible only to dogs, was recorded by Paul McCartney for his Shetland sheepdog.

A Koala Bear's (which is not a bear at all!) finger print is indistinguishable from that of a human.

Luckily they sleep alot and do not often commit crime.

A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.

Over 2500 left handed people a year are killed from using products made for right handed people!

Pub Names

The longest pub name in the UK is:

The Old Thirteenth Cheshire Astley Volunteer Rifleman Corps Inn

The shortest is:

Q

Both of these pubs are in Stalybridge

COBRA Meetings

Given that this group meets in emergencies you would think that COBRA stands for something very exciting. In fact it is the name of the room where they meet -
Cabinet Office Briefing Room A

Coconuts

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for
Blood plasma.