TRIVIA BITS

 

• The 'Alligator Pear' is better known as the avocado.
• The Amayra guides of Bolivia are said to be able to keep pace with a trotting horse for a distance of 100 kilometres.
• The American dart game 'Cricket' is known in Britain as 'Mickey Mouse'.
• The American pilot Charles Lindbergh received the Service Cross of the German Eagle form Hermann Goering in 1938.
• The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about 9 000 'lead' pencils.
• The ampersand (&) is actually a stylised version of the Latin word "et," meaning and."
• The Ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait at their tables.
• The Ancient Greek name for a racecourse is the Hippodrome.
• The ancient Greeks believed that boys developed in the right hand side of the womb and girls in the left.
• The ancient Romans built such an excellent system of roads that the saying arose "all roads lead to Rome," that is, no matter which road one starts a journey on, he will finally reach Rome if he keeps on traveling. The popular saying came to mean that all ways or methods of doing something end in the same result, no method being better than another.