Eleven Victoria Crosses,Longest Lived Hurricane,Oldest Breed of Cattle,Robot Lunar Crawler

1. Wey and Trent flow from south to north which is extremely unusual for British rivers.
2. Eleven Victoria Crosses were given for the defence of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu War(1879).
3. "Ginger" was the longest lived hurricane in the North Atlantic.
4. The "Italian Chianina" is recognized as the oldest breed of cattle.
5. "Camembert Cheese" is produced by France.
6. The octane value for 2 star and 3 star petrol is 92 and 94 respectively.
7. The first Robot lunar crawler left on the moon by the Russians was "Lunokhod I".
8. 286,000 and more species of living flowering plants are know.
9. The last English monarch to be buried abroad was George I(at Leine Schloss, Hanover - his bones were transferred to Herrenhausen after the Second World War).
10. If a 20 metre thick layer of peat were buried under 3 km of sediment , the resultant seam of coal would be 2 metres thick.