TRIVIA BITS

 

• As of Dec. 31, 2000, the number of climbers summiting Mt. Everest reached 1314, and the number of deaths on the mountain reached 167.
• As the Pacific plate moves under its coast, the North Island of New Zealand is getting larger.
• As you age, the number of taste buds you have tend to diminish.  An average child is born with about 10,000 taste buds.  An average elderly person only has about 5,000.  This is partially why many kids hate vegetables so much.  Vegetables can be very bitter to “super tasters” or those close to that.  As you age and your taste buds diminish, this bitter flavour goes away somewhat and changes the taste of the vegetables dramatically in the process.
• Astronaut John Glenn ate the first meal in space when he ate pureed applesauce squeezed from a tube aboard Friendship 7 in 1962.
• At 840,000 square miles, Greenland is the largest island in the world. It is three times the size of Texas. By comparison, Iceland is only 39,800 square miles.
• At Darts, a score of 26 is called 'bed and breakfast'.
• At full tilt, Pumas can leap a distance of about sixty feet.
• At the age of 12, Martin Luther King became so depressed he tried committing suicide twice, by jumping out of his bedroom window.
• At the age of 26, Michelangelo began sculpting his monumental statue of David. He finished it seventeen months later, in January, 1504.
• At the deepest point, an iron ball would take more than an hour to sink to the ocean floor. ( 11.034 km )
• At the nearest point , Russia and America are less than 4 km apart.