Quite Interesting Facts

• Ping-pong was originally called ping-pong, not whiff-whaff, as London's top smeghead, Boris Johnson, publicly claimed at the Beijing Olympics.

• There's a town in Uruguay called Fray Bentos.

• Peeling sticky tape emits X-rays.

• Robin Gibb has never watched 'Saturday Night Fever' all the way through.

• The Smurfs have sold more than 10 million albums in the last three years.

• Valerie Singleton not only had a fling with Peter Purves, but fancied John Noakes (yuk!)

• Henry V invented passports.