Wednesday, March 21, 2012

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • The expletive, "Holy Toledo," refers to Toledo, Spain, which became an outstanding Christian cultural centre in 1085.
  • The extended right arm of the Statue of Liberty is 42 feet long.
  • The Extensor digiti minimi manus is used to extend the little finger.
  • The far side of the moon was first photographed by a Russian satellite in 1959.
  • The fastest tectonic movement on earth is 240 mm per year, at the Tonga micro-plate near Samoa.
  • The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter.
  • The feet account for one quarter of all the human bodies bones.
  • The fictional highwayman Dick Turpin's horse was called Black Bess.
  • The first Academy Awards (or Oscar's) were presented on 16 May 1929.
  • The first American advertisement for tobacco was published in 1789. It showed a picture of an Indian smoking a long clay pipe.

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