Read some interesting facts from our competition winners!

Congratulations to Nurse Kangaroo Bonsai, Major Rip Sausage-Roll, Doctor Morgana Mildew, Duchess Cynthia Casserole, Mademoiselle Esmerelda Pineapple – the winners of our fun facts competition! Check your emails boys and girls – you have all won some fantastic fact books from Raintree.

Many thanks to everyone that entered the competition – we loved reading all of your really interesting facts.

Here are some of our favourite facts from the winners:

If grasshoppers were the size of people they could leap the length of a basket-ball court.
Butterflies taste food with their feet.
Fake fact: Winklenockers can eat the world if they wanted because they live in space.

(Nurse Kangaroo Bonsai)

The highest railway station in the world is the remote railway station of Tanggula in the Tibetan region of China. It is 5068 m above sea level, no passenger trains stop here any more because no one lives here.
Fake fact: There once was a train invented that could run on Jelly. It was called Jelly Steamer and was bright green and wobbly.

(Major Rip Sausage-Roll)

The elephant is the only animal (apart from humans) with 4 knees.
The percentage of people dreaming in black and white started decreasing after the spread of color TV.
Fake fact: The buckleby is the only animal with more than 30 eyes!

(Doctor Morgana Mildew)

The Sahara Desert covers 85 per cent of Algeria. It is the second largest desert on earth with 3,500,000 square miles.
Fake fact: The Ood are a telepathic race, and are only connected to a vast central intelligence by a second hindbrain, which they hold in their hands. A peaceful race, they had little chance against the human organisation, Ood Operations, that invaded their home planet and removed their hindbrains, replacing them with translator spheres. The Ood are and alien from the brilliant space show, Doctor Who, which has been running on our TV screens for 50 years.

(Duchess Cynthia Casserole)