TRIVIA BITS

 

• The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
• The average porcupine has about 30,000 quills.
• The average US male will spend 2,965 hours shaving during his lifetime.
• The B'52's, were named after a Fifties Hairdo.
• The Baby Ruth candy bar was actually named after Grover Cleveland's baby
• The background radiation in Aberdeen is twice that of the rest of Great Britain.
• The bagpipe was originally made from the whole skin of a dead sheep.
• The balls of purring fluff in the Star Trek series were 'Tribbles'.
• The band Duran Duran got their name from an astronaut in the 1968 Jane Fonda movie "Barbarella.
• The band, Buffalo Springfield, was named after an American Tractor.
• The bar used for weightlifting weighs 20 kilograms.
• The Barbary Apes in Gibraltar are well protected by the resident British. The tradition is, when the apes leave the rock, the British will not be far behind.