TRIVIA BITS

 

• Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.
• During a orchiectomy, a man has a testicle removed.
• During a severe windstorm or rainstorm the Empire State Building may sway several feet to either side.
• During filming of the chariot race scene in the movie Ben-Hur, one of the cameras was completely ruined when a chariot ran over it. The footage right up to the camera's obliteration was used in the final film.
• During its lifetime an oyster changes its sex from male to female and back several times.
• During the 2,475,576,000 seconds of the average length life, we speak 123,205,750 words, have sex 4,239 times, shed 121 pints of tears.
• During the Alaskan Klondike gold rush, (1897-1898) potatoes were practically worth their weight in gold. Potatoes were so valued for their vitamin C content that miners traded gold for potatoes.
• During the eighteenth century, laws had to be brought in to curb the seemingly insatiable appetite for gin amongst the poor. Their annual intake was as much as five million gallons.
• During the fifteenth century, sick people were often dressed in red and surrounded by red objects because it was though to help them get better.
• During the Medieval Crusades, transporting bodies off the battlefield for burial was a major problem, this was solved by carrying a huge cauldron into the Holy wars, boiling down the bodies, and taking only the bones with them.