Lucky Spin

Fridge magnets can be great at reminding you of important stuff, except when the fridge is too big, like the LHC (Large Hadron Collider). This particle accelerator is a staggering 27 kilometres (17 miles) long and features the largest fridge in the world.

Alfred Mosher Butts, a New York architect, invented the popular board game Scrabble in 1931. He wanted to create a game which involved some luck and a lot of skill (and a large vocabulary)! Butts decided on the point-values of the letters by studying the front page of the New York Times.

When he was 8, Andy Warhol was bedridden due to a nerve disease. He stayed home and listened to the radio, learning all about celebrities. Many believe this incident influenced his art. He later created his iconic ‘Campbell’s Soup Cans’ series, allegedly having eaten the soup for lunch every day for 20 years!