Saturday, March 31, 2012

TRIVIA BITS

 

  • The international telephone dialling code for Antarctica is 672.
  • The inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell, also set a world water-speed record of over seventy miles an hour at the age of seventy two.
  • The Islands of Langerhans won't be found on a map, they're a group of cells located in the pancreas.
  • The Jazz Singer, 1927, was the first movie with audible dialogue.
  • The Jordanian city Amman was once called Philadelphia.
  • The juke-box derives from the old English word for dancing - juke.
  • The kiss that is given by the bride to the groom at the end of the wedding ceremony originates from the earliest times when the couple would actually make love for the first time under the eyes of half the village!
  • The Kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the end of its bill.
  • The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.
  • The language Malayalam, spoken in parts of India, is the only language whose name is a palindrome.

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