Strange to Tell... According to the Daleks (feature)

Strange to Tell... According to the Daleks was a feature original to The Dalek World, a Dalek annual released in October 1965. It was unusual for giving a wealth of new information about the Daleks in a form aping realistic "Did You Know?" features in magazine, presenting a series of "fun facts" in a falsely kid-friendly format.

Characters

 * Daleks

Worldbuilding

 * Because Dalekenium is so light, a Dalek weighs only two-and-a-half Earth pounds. Dalekenium is also the most valuable metal in the universe, one ounce of it being worth one hundred thousand pounds sterling.
 * In the year 2000 B.C., a Dalek spacecraft crashed on Earth in Egypt. The locals were so awed by the sight that they decided to erect a monument to mark the spot: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
 * The Yeti, or Abominable Snowmen, are actually Daleks, who crashed in the Himalayas in the year 141, and found that although their casings were damaged, the rarefied atmosphere and sub-zero temperatures allowed them to survive out of them.
 * Daleks never sleep because they have "several minds", one of which is awake at all times even as the others rest.
 * The Dalek War Machine can move at over two thousand miles an hour; it could cover the distance between Birmingham and London on the M1 Motorway in under two minutes.
 * The disease measles originated on Skaro before being accidentally transmitted to Earth via a Dalek space probe.
 * The generators built into a single Dalek casing produce enough power to supply the whole of London.
 * Daleks make humanoid robot duplicates which only a close medical examination can tell apart from real humans, and use them as spies.
 * As the colour red does not naturally exist on Skaro, was not included in the perception range of the colour-corrected electronic Dalek eye. This makes red objects invisible to Daleks.