8 Times Sir David Attenborough Was A Total Badass
4. When He Had 31 Honorary Degrees
Yeah, so you know how most normal people have a perfectly respectable 2:1 in media studies? Sir David Attenborough has a grand total of 31 honorary degrees from many distinguished universities, not to mention something like 8 BAFTAs and the countless other honours and accolades gathered over his career including, oh yeah, a knighthood.
He is also the only person to have won BAFTAs for programmes in black and white, colour, HD, and 3D.
He also has honorary Doctor of Science awards from Cambridge and has been made a freeman of both of the cities Leicester and Bristol. To round it all off, he has also been made an honorary fellow of no less that six distinguished colleges, societies and institutes.
Actually, while we're at it, we should address the great man by his full title: Sir David Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FSA (that's a lot of letters).
Not bad for a man who says that he just "wanted to try and understand the way the world works".