TRIVIA BITS

 

• The drinking straw was invented in 1886 by hand rolling paraffined Manila paper.
• The Dutch in general prefer their French fries with mayonnaise.
• The dye used to stamp the grade on meat is edible. It's made from grape skins.
• The early personal computer, the Sinclair ZX80, had 1 kilobyte of internal memory.
• The Earth is pear shaped, the North Pole radius being 44mm longer than the South Pole radius.
• The Earth is the densest planet in the solar system.
• The earth’s surface contains 196,950,711 square miles (510,100,000 square kilometres).
• The earth's average velocity orbiting the sun is 107 220 km per hour.
• The earth's magnetic field is not permanent,
• The East Alligator River in Australia's Northern Territory, was misnamed. It contains crocodiles not alligators.