Monday, April 16, 2012

TRIVIA BITS 16 APRIL

 

The planet Uranus was only discovered 215 years ago, by Sir William Herschel on 13 March 1781.

The plant lives in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the Earth.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

The poet Coleridge drank about 2 litres of laudanum (tincture of opium) each week at the height of his addiction.

The Polynesian country of Niue is a 170 square kilometre limestone rock emerging 60 metres from the Pacific.

The popular name for the giant sequoia tree is Redwood.

The pound cake got its name from the pound of butter it contained.

The power of the first hydrogen bomb tested in 1952 was equal to the combined power of all the bombs dropped on Germany and Japan in World War Two - including the atomic ones.

The pressure at the Earths inner core is 3 million times Earth's atmospheric pressure.

The producers of the movie Gone With The Wind were fined 5,000 dollars for allowing the word “damn“ to be heard within the movie‘s dialogue.

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