Sunday, November 6, 2011

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • Atilla the Hun is thought to have been a dwarf.
  • Augustus II, the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland seemed to have a prodigious sexual appetite, and fathered hundreds of illegitimate children during his lifetime.
  • Aunt Jemima pancake flour, invented in 1889, was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially.
  • Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
  • Australian meteorologist Nils Lied, while in Antartica, drove a golf ball 2414 metres.
  • Australian Ron Clarke set 18 World Records as a long distance runner but never won an Olympic title.
  • Australian termites have been known to build mounds twenty feet high and at least 100 feet wide.
  • Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.
  • Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams.
  • B.B. King's guitar, 'Lucille' is a Gibson guitar.

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