Friday, November 18, 2011

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • Cystallite is the material snooker balls are made from.
  • Daffy Duck made his debut in 1937 in ' Porky's Duck Hunt '.
  • Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.
  • Darts is the most popular sport played in Britain.
  • Despite the hump, a camels spine is straight.
  • Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.
  • Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance, and is also one of the most valuable natural substances. Diamonds are crystals formed almost entirely of carbon. Because of its hardness, the diamond is the most enduring of all gemstones. They are among the most costly jewels in the world, partly because they are rare, Only four important diamond fields have been found - in Africa, South America, India, and the Soviet Union.
  • Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow.
  • Discounting Australia, which is generally regarded as a continental land mass, the world's largest island is Greenland.
  • Disney World in Orlando, Florida covers 30,500 acres (46 square miles), making it twice the size of the island of Manhattan, New York.
  • Disneyland opened in 1955.

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