Thursday, March 15, 2012

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • The city of New York contains a district called 'Hell's Kitchen'.
  • The city of Rome was built on seven hills. They were Palatine, Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, and Aventine.
  • The city of St. Petersburg, Russia, was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great, hence the name, St. Petersburg. But it wasn't always that simple. In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Russian leaders felt that Petersburg was too German-sounding. So they changed the name of the city to Petrograd -- to make it more Russian-sounding. Then, in 1924, the country's Soviet Communist leaders wanted to honour the founder of the Soviet Union, Vladimir I. Lenin. The city of Petrograd became Leningrad and was known as Leningrad until 1991 when the new Russian legislators -- no longer Soviet Communists -- wanted the city to reflect their change of government.
  • The coldest temperature ever measured on Earth was -129 Fahrenheit (-89 Celsius) at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983.
  • The coldest temperature ever recorded was -70 deg Celsius, in Siberia.
  • The collecting of Beer mats is called Tegestology.
  • The colour of a chilli is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller the pepper, the hotter it is.
  • The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."
  • The common term for a member of the bee genus 'Bombus' is the bumblebee
  • The company providing the liability insurance for the Republican National

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