TRIVIA BITS

 

• Scottish is the language called Gaelic, whereas Irish is actually called Gaeilge.
• Sea otters have 2 coats of fur.
• Sea water, loaded with mineral salts, weighs about a pound and a half more per cubit foot than fresh water at the same temperature.
• Sergei Prokofiev composed an opera called 'The Giant' when he was only seven years old.
• Sexually transmitted diseases are the major cause of preventable sterility in American men and women.
• Sharks are immune to cancer.
• Shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
• Sheriff came from Shire Reeve. During early years of monarchical rule in England, each shire had a reeve who was the law for that shire. When the term was brought to the United States it was shortened to Sheriff.
• Sherlock Holmes never said 'Elementary, my dear Watson.'
• Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective, arrived on the mystery scene in the late nineteenth century in "A Study in Scarlet" (1887).