TRIVIA BITS

 

• Shrove Tuesday is the day the Pancake races are run on.
• Sigmund Freud bought his first sample of cocaine for $1.27 per gram.
• Since 1959, more than 6,000 pieces of 'space junk' (abandoned rocket and satellite parts) have fallen out of orbit - many of these have hit the earth's surface.
• Since Hindus don't eat beef, the McDonald's in New Delhi makes its burgers with mutton.
• Sir Isaac Newton was obsessed with the occult and the supernatural.
• Sir Isaac Newton was only twenty three years old when he discovered the law of universal gravitation.
• Sir Winston Churchill rationed himself to 15 cigars a day.
• Sir Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' cloakroom after his mother went into labour during a dance at Blenheim Palace. His mother was descended from a Red Indian.
• 'Skepticisms' is the longest word that can be typed using alternate hands.
• Sliced bread was introduced under the Wonder Bread label in 1930.