Friday, February 3, 2012

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • Pablo Picasso was abandoned by the midwife just after his birth because she thought he was stillborn. He was saved by an uncle.
  • Pablo Picasso's career lasted seventy-eight years, from 1895 until his death in 1973.
  • Paper money was first used in China after paper was invented early in the second century by a Chinese eunuch.
  • Paul Revere was a dentist.
  • Peanuts are beans and are used in the production of dynamite.
  • Pearls melt in vinegar.
  • Pedals were added to the bicycle in 1839.
  • Penguins can jump over 6 feet.
  • Penny Marshall was the first woman film director to have a film take in more than $100 million at the box office - she accomplished this with the 1988 flick Big.
  • People in Siberia often buy milk frozen on a stick.

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