9 Quotes by Jack Goldstein

Property is often left on the trains of the London Underground. Unusual items that have found their way into the lost property office include a coffin, a samurai sword, a stuffed puffer fish and a human skull.

When Arthur Weasley has to enter a number into the telephone box to get into the Ministry of Magic, he dials ‘62442’. Press the buttons on your cellphone spelling the word ‘Magic’ and see what you get...

If a baby stork is not happy with the way it is being reared, it sometimes abandons its parents and wanders into another nearby nest to be fed by a new family!

Bangkok, capital of Thailand is the city holds the record for the world’s longest place name. Its full ceremonial name is Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit.

The shortest national anthem in the world is the Japanese one, which only consists of four lines. The Greek anthem on the other hand features an incredible 158 verses.

During the Second World War, the good people of the great Mosque in Paris looked after many of the city’s Jewish population, supplying them with Muslim identity certificates so they would not be taken away to concentration camps.

In the early 20th century, one of the most popular visitor attractions in Paris was a human zoo, which millions of people visited every year to see ‘specimens’ from Madagascar, India, China, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and the Congo.

At one point during the war, the Germans built fake airfields out of wood to draw British bombers away from their real targets and to fool the allies into thinking they were strategically more powerful than they actually were. However, the British weren’t fooled – and took the mickey out of the Germans by dropping wooden bombs on the decoys!

James Earl Jones, who voices Darth Vader, was so convinced that Star Wars would be a flop that he initially refused to allow his name to be used in the credits.