Wednesday, November 23, 2011

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • Elvis once wrote a letter to President Nixon asking to become an undercover narcotics cop. Nixon responded by personally giving Elvis a Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge. During Elvis’s autopsy, doctors found 10 different drugs in Elvis’s blood stream.
  • Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national television in 1956. He sang Blue Suede Shoes and Heartbreak Hotel on "The Dorsey Brothers Show."
  • Elzie Crisler Segar created the comic strip character Popeye in 1919
  • EMI stands for ' Electrical and Musical Instruments'.
  • England is smaller than New England
  • England's Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's Colosseum.
  • English batsman, Arthur Shrewbury, shot himself believing he was afflicted with an incurable disease.
  • Enid Blyton, writer of the 'Famous Five' had 59 stories published in 1959.
  • Ernest Bevin, Minister of Labour during World War II, left school at the age of eleven.
  • Estragon protects against heart disease.

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