FACT #302

Far-right politician Jean Marie Le Pen's 2002 campaign for the French presidency was fatally undermined when a Panorama special revealed his addiction to Pez dispensers.

FACT #301

At the age of 11 Japanese students must pass a proficiency test in arcade dance machines to be considered eligible for further education.

FACT #300

The first snooze alarm was invented by Russian ruler Peter the Great, who trained a cockerel to peck him at nine-minute intervals.

FACT #299

John Major's S&M submission word is 'Guadeloupe'.

FACT #298

Spanish has no word for 'exercise'.

FACT #297

Pope Benedict XVI has the world's most popular MySpace account. He describes his music as ecclesiastic/ indie/ alternative.

FACT #296

As requested in his will, Roger Moore's eyebrows will be cryogenically-frozen when he dies

FACT #295

In ancient Rome the most common children's names were Cerberus and Fruitella.

FACT #294

In 1994 notorious British hardman "mad" Charles Bronson released the world's first prison workout video, Stretch and Learn.

FACT #293

Many of today's everyday expressions first appeared in the plays of Shakespeare, including 'finger farm', 'note of plumage', 'easysack', 'as hungry as a cat', 'scrambled milk', 'running after a glance' and 'what the giblets'.

FACT #292

For an entire series of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop in 1981, researchers on the show were inundated with a stream of callers offering to exchange bitter almonds for dried eels.