TRIVIA BITS

 

• The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.
• The Bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court.
• The Blues Brothers once held the record for crashing the most police cars in a movie at approximately 30. The record was eventually broken by Blues Brothers 2000.
• The board game Monopoly was originally rejected by Parker Brothers, who claimed it had 52 fundamental errors.
• The body's largest internal organ is the small intestine at an average length of 20 feet
• The book by Copernicus, which suggested that the Sun and not the Earth was the centre of the solar system, was banned officially banned by the Papacy until 1835.
• The Boomtown Rats, who made a hit single, were inspired by a female random killer whose excuse was 'I don't like Mondays.
• The border between Canada and the U.S. is the world's longest frontier. It stretches 3,987 miles (6,416 km).
• The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.
• The brain uses more than 25% of the oxygen used by the human body.