Interesting Facts

The world’s most expensive Christmas dinner will set you back £125,000. (So what do you get for 1/8 of a million quid? The meal, which will be prepared by John Salt head chef Ben Spalding at the home of the customer, is for four people has the following:- Starter - Almas caviar (£5,000)  served with a balsamic vinegar that is 150 years old. Main course - Wagyu beef fillet and heart (£5,000) sprinkled with Akbari Pistachios (£5,000) and edible 50 carat gold leaf. Pud - Whipped Kopi Luwak (£3,000) and Densuke watermelon (£2,600). All washed down with £37,000 pre-World War One champagne, poured into diamond studded champagne flutes. Luxury website VeryFirstTo.com are offering the meal, but the proceeds will go to charity.  Well that's all right then.  You can stuff your face silly, as long as it's for a good cause.  Let them eat Wagyu Beef.) Explore more infographics like this one on the web's largest information design community - Visually .

To become a Beefeater at the Tower of London you have to have done at least 22 years military service. (Beefeaters aka "Yeoman Warders" must have been senior non-commissioned officers in the Army, RAF or Royal Marines. It is thought that their nickname is derived from their historic position in the Royal Bodyguard, which let them eat all the beef they wanted from the King’s table.  In fact the French nickname for the English is "rosbif", which refers to the English style of cooking beef "roast beef".)