He was a remarkable person, when you really thought about it.
He would so often say “did you know?” right out of the blue. He was full of amazing information. At the drop of a hat he could tell you that the height of nelson’s column was 52 metres, or that a kolinsky is a type of weasel, or that there are thirty letters in the German alphabet, that Hg is the chemical symbol for mercury, that the twin Petronas Towers in Malaysia are 451.9 metres tall, that Whoopi Goldberg’s real name is Caryn Johnson, that the world’s biggest jam doughnut was made in January 1998, at Utica, New York, that Nicaragua was the first nation to ratify the United Nations charter, that the first magazine to run an advertisement for condoms was ‘Sport’ in 1969, that it was Montgomery Ward who invented Rudolf the red nosed reindeer in a comic, that political parties are banned in Bulgaria, that Mariner 9 was the first space probe to orbit another planet, or that Barbie’s first horse was named ‘Dancer’.
It just went on and on.
It was such an irony that he was never invited anywhere!