TRIVIA BITS 10 APRIL

 

• The New York phone book had 22 Hitlers listed before World War II ... and none after.
• The nickname of the New Zealand Rugby team is 'The All Blacks',which came about through a newspaper printing error.
• The Nobel Prize resulted from a late change in the will of Alfred Nobel, who did not want to be remembered after his death as a propagator of violence - he invented dynamite.
• The normal body temperature in 37° Celsius.
• The northern most country claiming part of Antarctica is Norway.
• The nose continues to grow throughout your life.
• The Nova Zemlya Glacier in the (former) USSR is over 400 km long.
• The number of births in India each year is greater than the entire population of Australia.
• The number of triplets born in the US in 1994 (4,594) was more than triple the number born in 1971 (1,034), an increase attributed to older age of the mothers and the use of fertility-enhancing drugs and techniques.
• The number of UFO sightings constantly increase when Mars is nearest the Earth.