Friday, March 30, 2012

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • The 'Hundred Years War' lasted 116 years.
  • The hydrochloric acid in the human stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail.
  • The ice cream soda was invented in 1874 by Robert Green.  He was serving a mixture of syrup, sweet cream and carbonated water at a celebration in Philadelphia.  He ran out of cream and substituted ice cream.
  • The idiom "pillar of salt" means to have a stroke, or to become paralysed and dead.
  • The Imperial Throne of Japan has been occupied by the same family for the last thirteen hundred years.
  • The Incas and the Aztecs were able to function without the wheel.
  • The infinity sign is called a lemniscate.
  • The inhabitants of Monaco are known as 'Monegasques'.
  • The inhabitants of Papa New Guinea speak about 700 languages, approximately 15% of the world's total - including localised dialects, which are known to change from village to village.

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