TRIVIA BITS

 

• Some hotels in Las Vegas have gambling tables floating in their swimming pools.
• Some moral purists in the Middle Ages believed that women's ears ought to be covered up because the Virgin May had conceived a child through them.
• Some people never develop fingerprints at all. Two rare genetic defects, known as Naegeli syndrome and dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis, can leave carriers without any identifying ridges on their skin.
• Some soft drinks are made sweeter by adding coal.
• Some very Orthodox Jew refuse to speak Hebrew, believing it to be a language reserved only for the Prophets.
• Someone who grinds their teeth is a bruxomaniac.
• Sophia Loren's sister was once married to the son of the Italian dictator, Mussolini.
• South Africa produces two-thirds of the world's gold.
• South American gauchos were known to put raw steak under their saddles before starting a day's riding, in order to tenderise the meat.
• Spain literally means 'the land of rabbits'.