TRIVIA BITS

 

• The Ecuadorian poet, José Olmedo, has a statue in his honour in his home country. But, unable to commission a sculptor, due to limited funds, the government brought a second-hand statue Of the English poet Lord Byron.
• The Eiffel Tower is 984 feet high and was built for the 1889 World's Fair.
• The Eiffel Tower receives a fresh coat of 300 tons of reddish-green paint every seven years.
• The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random.
• The Emu gets its name from the Portuguese word for ostrich.
• The energy released in the ten minutes of a normal hurricane is roughly equivalent to the energy contained in all the nuclear stockpiles of the world.
• The English word "soup" comes from the Middle Ages word "sop," which means a slice of bread over which roast drippings were poured. The first archaeological evidence of soup being consumed dates back to 6000 B.C., with the main ingredient being Hippopotamus bones!
• The English word with the most consonants in a row is latchstring.
• The Eskimo language has over twenty words to describe different kinds of snow.
• The estimated weight of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is 6,648,000 tons.