• professor Malcolm Grant, the Provost and President of University College London, agreed to shave off his moustache if UCL students raised £1500 for Comic Relief, on Red Nose Day in 2005?

Facts on topics related to Red Nose Day

Dogs

• in addition to human spaceflight, there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes?

Pancake

• the pancakes called galettes (pictured) originated in Upper Brittany and crêpes in Lower Brittany?