TRIVIA BITS

 

 

• Narcolepsy is the uncontrollable need to sleep.
• Native American Indians used to name their children after the first thing they saw as they left their tepees subsequent to the birth. Hence such strange names as Sitting Bull and Running Water.
• Natural gas has no odour. The smell is added artificially so that leaks can be detected.
• Near the beginning of the movie Back To The Future there’s a scene where they show all of the clocks at Doc's house. If you look closely there is one clock with a little man hanging from the minute hand.
• Nearly a quarter of all human bones can be found in the feet.
• Nearly a quarter of the population of Poland was killed in World War II.
• Near-sighted model, Grace Robin was the first to show off contact lenses in 1930.
• New Jersey, with 96, is the US state with the greatest number of hazardous waste sites.
• New York City contains 920 kilometres of shoreline.
• New York was once New Amsterdam.