TRIVIA BITS

 

• Most people blink about 25 000 times a day.
• Most people have lost fifty per cent of their taste buds by the time they reach the age of sixty.
• Mountains are formed by a process called orogeny.
• Movie detective Dirty Harry's badge number is 2211.
• Mozart was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave.
• MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. on August 1, 1981 The first music-video shown on the rock-video cable channel was, appropriately, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by the Buggles. MTV's original five veejays were Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, J.J. Jackson and Alan Hunter.
• Mummies, are so called because of the wax (or 'mum' ) which is smeared on to the bandages for waterproofing.
• Mushrooms have no chlorophyll so they don't need sunshine to grow and thrive. Some of the earliest commercial mushroom farms were set up in caves in France during the reign of King Louis XIV (1638-1715).
• Nabisco’s “Oreo’s” are the world’s best-selling brand of cookie at a rate of 6 billion sold each year. The first Oreo was sold in 1912.
• Napoleon Bonaparte is the historical figure most often portrayed in movies. He has been featured in 194 movies, Jesus Christ in 152, and Abraham Lincoln in 137.