- In 1920, 57% of Hollywood movies billed the female star above the leading man but, by 1990, only 18% gave the leading lady the top billing.
- The “Bloody Mary” cocktail is thought to have been named after England’s Queen Mary, who ordered for hundreds of people to be burned at the stake.
- Birds can present a serious risk to aeroplane flights taking off and landing so airport chiefs at a council-owned airport near Gloucester used creative approaches to keeping their runways clear, including using fireworks, swinging a bin liner around their heads to mimic a bird of prey, and sending out recordings of distressed bird calls, but blasting out Tina Turner songs at high-volume from a van driven around the grounds has proved most effective of all.
[Editor’s note: We wonder if this would work on Camber’s sea gulls?!]
