TRIVIA BITS

 

• Catgut comes from sheep not cats.
• Catherine the First of Russia, made a rule that no man was allowed to get drunk at one of her parties before nine o'clock.
• Cats are feline, dogs are canine, and sheep are ovine.
• Cats have no facility for tasting sugar.
• Cats were a sacred animal in Ancient Egypt, and when they died, people shaved off their eyebrows as a sign of respect.
• Charles Baudelaire, preferred to Wagners music, the sounds ' of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws'.
• Charles Dickens was an insomniac, who believed his best chance of sleeping was in the centre of a bed facing directly north.
• Charles Lindbergh took only four sandwiches with him on his famous transatlantic flight.
• Charles the Simple was the grandson of Charles the Bald, both were rulers of France.
• Charlie Chaplain's cane was made of bamboo.