FAST FACTS – Fascinating tid-bits to entertain your family and friends.

Kit Kat-fi lled Kit Kats

The folks at the Kit Kat factory sure know how to recycle. Whenever a Kit Kat bar is made imperfect during production like air bubbles or some other issue, the chocolate bar isn’t thrown out. Instead, it is ground up into a fine paste and turned into a filling that’s then incorporated back into the production process to create a new Kit Kat bar.

Quote of the week.

“If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough – Mario Andretti

Daniel Radcliffe went through nearly 70 wands and 160 pairs of glasses during the making of the Harry Potter films. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the production team made 40 versions of Salazar Slytherin’s locket, 250 paintings for the Marble Staircase, 900 memory vials for the cabinet in Dumbledore‘s Office, and 210,000 coins for the Gringotts bank scene in the last two films alone.

By the numbers

$5.8 billion

366

The number of dimples on a regular golf ball. The annual revenue of the coffee industry in Australia.

68%

of the world’s plant species are now endangered.

Three seconds

A child is born every three seconds globally.

The Zodiac Killer, who terrorised Northern California from the late 1960s to the ’70s? The serial killer murdered seven victims and sent cryptic letters to the media. The letters would describe details about the murders and taunt the authorities. The killer also sent four cryptograms in the letters, which were practically indecipherable. To this day, the authorities have solved only one of the cryptograms, with no suspect found as the Zodiac Killer.

Today in history – February 17

1863 – The precursor of the Red Cross and Red Crescent is founded. The International Committee for Relief to the Wounded was created by a group of citizens in Geneva, Switzerland. 1904 – Madama Butterfly premieres. Giacomo Puccini’s opera, one of the world’s most performed operas, was initially poorly received. 1913 – The Armory Show opens in New York. The art exhibition featured works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh and marked the advent of artistic modernism in the United States. 2016 – American author Harper Lee, who was acclaimed and revered for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) – which movingly depicts small-town life and racial prejudice – dies at age 89.

Word of the day.

Lugubrious

Very sad in an exaggerated or insincere way.